Since the first instance of brain tumor surgery in the 19th century, continuous progress has led us to the procedures we know and perform today as neurosurgerons. Anatomical knowledge has grown hand in hand with technological innovation. Translational research has effectively advanced practical knowledge from basic sciences to clinical practice, and we now know that this process also works in reverse. Surgical practice has always had a powerful charm: ignite surgeons’ knowledge, make them eager to push their own boundaries, in brief glimpsing new scenarios where anatomy, technology and technical skills could be at their maximum precision and efficacy. These three ingredients have served as lockpicks to the exploration of brain structure, unveiling its functions and understanding how to remove more tumor with minimal or no damage to the brain. Such interconnection between anatomy and function, technique and technology crucially paves the way for progress.
This collection aims to gather the current state-of-the-art research as a starting point to step toward a future where brain functions can be easily detected and, possibly, modulated to optimize neurosurgical potential to treat tumors. This can be widely explored through papers analyzing many aspects of clinical experience, such as:
- the historical background, such as pathways through which investigation in neuroscience has been influencing everyday practice in neurosurgery.
- the evolving relation between brain anatomy and function, from analytical description to connectomics.
- technological innovations in related field such as neuroimaging or neurophysiological monitoring etc
- how surgical technique influences and is influenced by ongoing progress in other fields i.e. technological innovations in neuroimaging, neurophysiological monitoring or radiation oncology.
- the impact of neuropsychologic discoveries inside and outside of the operating room, such as how they contribute to improving patient pre-operative evaluation, intraoperative techniques and the conseuqent impacts on post-operative outcomes.
- the role of neuromodulation, such as in the delivery of nanoparticles.
Please note: manuscripts consisting solely of bioinformatics or computational analysis of public genomic or transcriptomic databases which are not accompanied by validation (independent cohort or biological validation in vitro or in vivo) are out of scope for this section and will not be accepted as part of this Research Topic.
Since the first instance of brain tumor surgery in the 19th century, continuous progress has led us to the procedures we know and perform today as neurosurgerons. Anatomical knowledge has grown hand in hand with technological innovation. Translational research has effectively advanced practical knowledge from basic sciences to clinical practice, and we now know that this process also works in reverse. Surgical practice has always had a powerful charm: ignite surgeons’ knowledge, make them eager to push their own boundaries, in brief glimpsing new scenarios where anatomy, technology and technical skills could be at their maximum precision and efficacy. These three ingredients have served as lockpicks to the exploration of brain structure, unveiling its functions and understanding how to remove more tumor with minimal or no damage to the brain. Such interconnection between anatomy and function, technique and technology crucially paves the way for progress.
This collection aims to gather the current state-of-the-art research as a starting point to step toward a future where brain functions can be easily detected and, possibly, modulated to optimize neurosurgical potential to treat tumors. This can be widely explored through papers analyzing many aspects of clinical experience, such as:
- the historical background, such as pathways through which investigation in neuroscience has been influencing everyday practice in neurosurgery.
- the evolving relation between brain anatomy and function, from analytical description to connectomics.
- technological innovations in related field such as neuroimaging or neurophysiological monitoring etc
- how surgical technique influences and is influenced by ongoing progress in other fields i.e. technological innovations in neuroimaging, neurophysiological monitoring or radiation oncology.
- the impact of neuropsychologic discoveries inside and outside of the operating room, such as how they contribute to improving patient pre-operative evaluation, intraoperative techniques and the conseuqent impacts on post-operative outcomes.
- the role of neuromodulation, such as in the delivery of nanoparticles.
Please note: manuscripts consisting solely of bioinformatics or computational analysis of public genomic or transcriptomic databases which are not accompanied by validation (independent cohort or biological validation in vitro or in vivo) are out of scope for this section and will not be accepted as part of this Research Topic.
