P.S. Chandra

TL;DR: A prospective randomized comparative study of results of surgery under awake versus surgery under general anesthesia for intrinsic eloquent area lesions for intrinsic brain tumors in eloquent areas finds that awake surgery may achieve more aggressive tumor resection and minimize postoperative neurological morbidity.

TL;DR: This study identifies a novel signaling mechanism mediated by FAT1 in regulating the activity of PDCD4 and thereby the key transcription factor AP-1, which then affects known mediators of neoplasia and inflammation.

TL;DR: There was benefit of simvastatin in terms of reduction in clinical vasospasm, mortality or improved functional outcome, however, this was not statistically significant.

TL;DR: The surgical management of intrinsic brain stem tumors presents a surgical challenge; radical excision yielded a good outcome in the majority of cases and the authors propose a classification system for 'intrinsic' brainstem tumors for defining surgical strategy.

TL;DR: In both temporal and extratemporal epilepsies the concordance of the iSPECT/FDG-PET with the MRI/vEEG correlated with a better 5-year outcome, but this correlation was not found for the temporal epilepsy, where the MRI and vEEG were the most important prognostic parameters.