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INTRODUCTION
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Preface
List of Reviewers
Honored Guests
Officers of the CNS 2008
Congress of Neurological Surgeons Past Presidents
Editors-in-Chief Clinical Neurosurgery
Contributors
Honored Guest: William F. Chandler, MD
Bibliography
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GENERAL SCIENTIFIC SESSION I:
The Community of Neurosurgery: Translational Science as a Source of Knowledge
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CHAPTER 1
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Enlightened Learning in a Knowledge Society: 2008 Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Presidential Address
Anthony L. Asher, M.D., F.A.C.S.
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CHAPTER 2
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Chained Lightning: Advances in Neuromodulation
Jonathan Riley, M.D., Bethwel Raore, M.D., and Nicholas Boulis, M.D.
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CHAPTER 3
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Treatment of Disorders of the Pituitary Gland: Pearls and Pitfalls From 30 Years
of Experience
William F. Chandler, M.D.
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GENERAL SCIENTIFIC SESSION II:
The Community of Neurosurgery: Evidence as a Source of Knowledge
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CHAPTER 4
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What Is Medical Evidence?
Frederick G. Barker, II, M.D.
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CHAPTER 5
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The Ethics of Accumulating Neurosurgical Evidence in the Clinical Setting
Peter Angelos, M.D., Ph.D.
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CHAPTER 6
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The Future of Clinical Research Beyond Phase III Trials
Michael A. Vogelbaum, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.
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CHAPTER 7
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Management of Supratentorial Arteriovenous Malformations
Andrei F. Joaquim, M.D., and Evandro de Oliveira, M.D., Ph.D.
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CHAPTER 8
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What Is Quality in Neurosurgery?
William F. Chandler, M.D.
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GENERAL SCIENTIFIC SESSION III:
The Community of Neurosurgery: Collective Wisdom as a Source of Knowledge
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CHAPTER 9
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Defining Collective Experience: When Does Wisdom Take Precedence?
Edward C. Benzel, M.D.
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CHAPTER 10
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How to Incorporate Clinical Experience Into Evidence-Based Medicine
Michael W. Groff, M.D.
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CHAPTER 11
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What Neurosurgeons Should Discover About the Science of Learning
Richard E. Mayer, Ph.D.
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CHAPTER 12
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Residency Redesign
William F. Chandler, M.D.
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CHAPTER 13
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Response to Economic Forces Buffeting the Community of Neurosurgery
James R. Bean, M.D.
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GENERAL SCIENTIFIC SESSION IV:
The Community of Neurosurgery: Accumulated Experience as a Source of Knowledge
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CHAPTER 14
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Percutaneous Balloon Compression for Trigeminal Neuralgia
Jeffrey Alan Brown, M.D.
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RESIDENT AND YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS
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CHAPTER 15
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Fiducials: Achilles’ Heel of Image-Guided Neurosurgery: An Attempt at Indigenization
and Improvement
Deepak Agrawal, M.B.B.S., M.S., M.Ch., and Paul Steinbok, M.B.B.S., M.Sc., F.R.C.S.C.
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CHAPTER 16
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The Combination of Selective Inhibition of the Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor
and Activation of the Cannabinoid CB2 Receptor Yields Improved Attenuation
of Motor and Autonomic Deficits in a Mouse Model of Spinal Cord Injury
Joshua E. Heller, M.D., Darric E. Baty, M.D., Ming Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Hongbo Li,
M.D., Martin Adler, Ph.D., Doina Ganea, Ph.D., John Gaughan, Ph.D., Christopher
M. Loftus, M.D., F.A.C.S., Jack I. Jallo, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S., and Ronald F. Tuma,
Ph.D.
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CHAPTER 17
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Which Intracranial Lesions Would Be Suitable for 5-Aminolevulenic Acid–Induced Fluorescence-Guided
Identification, Localization, or Resection? A Prospective Study of 114 Consecutive
Intracranial Lesions
M. Sam Eljamel, M.D.
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CHAPTER 18
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The Role of Tregs in Human Glioma Patients and Their Inhibition With a Novel STAT-3
Inhibitor
Amy B. Heimberger, M.D., Ling-Yuan Kong, Ph.D., Mohamed Abou-Ghazal, M.D., Chantal
Reina-Ortiz, David S. Yang, B.S., Jun Wei, Ph.D., Wei Qiao, M.S., Robert J. Schmittling,
B.S., Gary E. Archer, Ph.D., John H. Sampson, M.D., Ph.D., Nobuyoshi Hiraoka, M.D.,
Ph.D., Waldemar Priebe, Ph.D., Gregory N. Fuller, M.D., Ph.D., and Raymond Sawaya,
M.D.
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CHAPTER 19
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A Small Interference RNA Screen Revealed Proteasome Inhibition as Strategy for Glioblastoma
Therapy
Kimberly Ng, B.S., Masayuki Nitta, M.D., Ph.D., Lauren Hu, M.S., Santosh Kesari,
M.D., Ph.D., Andrew Kung, M.D., Ph.D., Alan D’Andrea, M.D., and Clark C. Chen, M.D.,
Ph.D.
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CHAPTER 20
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Occipital Nerve Stimulation for Intractable Occipital Neuralgia: An Open Surgical
Technique
Philippe Magown, M.D.C.M., René Garcia, M.D., Ian Beauprie, M.D., and Ivar M. Mendez,
M.D., Ph.D.
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CHAPTER 21
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Enriched Motor Neuron Populations Derived From Bacterial Artificial Chromosome–Transgenic
Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Dimitris G. Placantonakis, M.D., Ph.D., Mark J. Tomishima, Ph.D., Fabien Lafaille,
M.S., Sabrina C. Desbordes, Ph.D., Fan Jia, Ph.D., Nicholas D. Socci, Ph.D., Agnes
Viale, Ph.D., Hyojin Lee, Ph.D., Neil Harrison, Ph.D., Lorenz Studer, M.D., and
Viviane S. Tabar, M.D.
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Author Index
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Subject Index
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