With this issue, Neurosurgery introduces a new section devoted to Global Neurosurgery.
This may be one of the most important steps ever taken by a neurosurgical journal, and I am …

Background On September 25, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a 17-
goal action plan to transform the world by the year 2030, ushering in the Era of Sustainable …

1. Dewan MC, Rattani A, Baticulon RE, Faruque S, Johnson WD, Dempsey RJ, et al:
Operative and consultative proportions of neurosurgical disease worldwide: estimation from …

Walter Freeman, the self styled neurosurgeon, became famous (or infamous) for
psychosurgery. The operation of frontal leucotomy swept through the world (with Freeman …

In the wake of deep brain stimulation (DBS) development, ablative neurosurgical
procedures are seeing a comeback, although they had been discredited and nearly …

The story of psychosurgery is one of great visions, groundbreaking ideas, and heroic acts;
similarly it is a story of a great rise, a deep fall, and a cautious resurrection. For a long time …

Trephination, the practice of boring a hole in the skull, is one of the oldest surgical
procedures performed by and on humans. Fossil records show evidence of trephined skulls …

Recent developments in the field of neurosurgery, specifically those dealing with the
modification of mood and affect as part of psychiatric disease, have led some researchers to …

OBJECTIVE Worldwide disparities in the provision of surgical care result in otherwise
preventable disability and death. There is a growing need to quantify the global burden of …

The continuing controversy surrounding psychosurgery is responsible not only for greater
public awareness of the procedure but also for the publication of misinformation that has …