Research and training in the neurosurgical sciences

Abstract

✓ The author surveys the past and looks to the future in presenting the goals of research and research training in neurosurgery. He describes several categories of research which appear to be open and attractive, and the types of program organization designed to achieve the desired goals. Acquisition of new knowledge about the nervous system, leading to improvement in diagnosis and management of patients, will probably remain within the surgical domain, but nonsurgical intervention will continue to demand and attract the active interest of neurosurgeons. The past and present contributions of neurosurgeons to basic neurophysiology and functional neurology dictate the ongoing need for the neurosurgeon to participate in the evolution of new developments in fundamental neurosciences and their clinical application.