Results of the XIIth meeting of the Siberian Association of Neurosurgeons “SibNeuro”.
The XIIth meeting of the Siberian Association of Neurosurgeons “SibNeuro” was held on October 30, 2015 at the premises of the Federal Neurosurgical Center (Novosibirsk).
The meeting was dedicated to psychosurgery – this is a narrow direction of neurosurgery on treatment of different psychic disorders with the help of brain surgery.
Psychosurgical procedures are joint teamwork of a psychiatrist and a neurosurgeon. Such specialists from N.P.Bekhtereva Human Brain Institute and Academician N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute gave lectures on this theme during the meeting.
N.P.Bekhtereva Human Brain Institute has a program on stereotactic neurosurgery (targeted destruction of deep brain structures inducing pathological condition). Surgical procedures were offered to hundreds of patients. These were people either with drug addiction or patients with obsessive and compulsive disorders when a person is haunted by compulsive actions and thoughts. Andrey I.Kholyavin and Yuriy I.Polyakov shared their experience.
Andrey I.Kholyavin is a neurosurgeon, radiologist, MD, PhD, a senior research officer of N.P.Bekhtereva Human Brain Institute, presented a lecture on “Stereotactic surgical procedures in surgery of psychic disorders” where he shared the methods of neurosurgical operations with the usage of stereotactic frame.
Yuriy I.Polyakov, MD, Head of Psychoneurological division, associate professor of N.P.Bekhtereva Human Brain Institute told about application of stereotacsis in psychiatric practice and he also presented the results of patients’ management in post-operational period.
The next lecture was about modern opportunities of neurosurgery in treatment of psychic diseases and was presented be Alexey A.Tomskiy, MD, neurosurgeon of functional neurosurgery group of N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute. He presented literature review and his own results on this direction.
The final one was a lecture on “Neurosurgery in treatment of the most severe resistant pain syndromes” that was presented by Emil D.Isagulyan, MD, a neurosurgeon of functional neurosurgery group of N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute. Dr.Isagulyan told in detail about “antipain arsenal” used in modern neurosurgery in different types of drug-resistant pain syndromes.
After discussion Gleb Y.Bondarenko, a neurosurgeon of Municipal clinical hospital #2 (Novokuznetsk) made some comments and told about psychosurgical experience of Novokuznetsk neurosurgeons.
Specialists from Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar and Ulyanovsk joint the event via real-time translation.
In the end of the XIIth meeting of “SibNeuro” agenda of the XIIIth meeting was announced. Some other events that would be held at the premises of the Federal Neurosurgical Center in November-December 2015 were also announced. The following events are among them:
November 19-20 – “Deep brain stimulation in management of movement disorders”;
November 26 – “Motor systems for neurosurgery” educational course;
November 30 – December 4 – “A week of transnasal endoscopic surgery”.
All interested specialists are invited for participation in events held by the Association.
Photos from the event are placed in the Gallery.