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Spring ASSFN Newsletter
The ASSFN Spring Newsletter is now available. Click here to download
Brain exploration and epilepsy surgery course
July 14-26, 2013. Venice International University, San Servolo, Venice, Italy. Click here for more information
Presidential Update
An update on 2013 changes in membership dues. Click here to download
INS Congress Registration Discount for ASSFN
As an added benefit of ASSFN membership, the registration fee for the biannual International Neuromodulation Congresses in Berlin in June 2013 is now discounted for ASSFN members. Read More
President's Address
It is indeed a great honor and privilege to be elected as a President of such prominent and established society as ASSFN. This job is particularly challenging when one has to follow stellar example of many famous functional neurosurgeons that held this post before me. Thankfully, the work of Society president is supported by the entire executive council and a cohort of Past Presidents all of whom find the time and strength in combining busy clinical and research practice with the service they provide to ASSFN. As the matter of fact, I feel that work of many past presidents and board members remains largely unknown to the members of our society and I would like to change this – first, by increasing transparency of the leadership’s activity and, second, by enlisting help from two Past Presidents, Phil Gildenberg and Roy Bakay to sum up ASSFN history in a series of personal stories and anecdotes.
Finish Reading more from Konstantin Slavin, MD, FAANS
WSSFN Ohye and Tsubokawa Awards
The WSSFN leadership is pleased to announce two awards in honour of deceased professors Ohye and Tsubokawa. The award is $ 2,500 each. The awards will be bestowed during the WSSFN congress in 2013 in Tokyo. For more information click here to download
Winners from ASSFN Biennial Meeting
Poster Winners:
1. Beneficial Effect of Subsequent Lesion Procedures Following Non-Response to Cingulotomy for OCD, by Sarah K Bourne
2. Binge eating is attenuated by accumbens deep brain stimulation: a mechanistic approach in mice, by Casey H. Halpern
Abstract Winners:
1. Pediatric Deep Brain Stimulator Surgical Complications, by John Honeycutt
2. Modulation of Limbic Circuitry by Nucleus Accumbens DBS in a Large Animal Model: an fMRI study, by Emily Knight
3. Optogenetic Stimulation of the Medial Septum Controls Oscillatory Activity in the Hippocampus, by Nealen Laxpati
Research Highlights
The potential use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) as a therapy for dementia and the effects of DBS on memory have recently gained considerable attention. In a recent report, Suthana and colleagues have studied the effects of electrical stimulation in seven patients undergoing depth electrode implantation to map epileptic seizures. Read more
ASSFN Biennial Meeting 2014
Please join us at the ASSFN 2014 Biennial Meeting set in Washington D.C., May 31 - June 3rd.
ASSFN Mission Statement
The mission of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery is to foster the use of image guided and physiologically guided surgeries that alter the function of the nervous system, for treatment of neurological disorders. The Society will improve patient care, educate neurosurgeons, other physicians, allied medical specialists, and the general public, support basic and clinical research, and provide a forum at national and international meetings to fulfill these goals. Through its meetings, the Society will also establish minimum standards for the performance of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. Read more
