World Society for Stereotactic
and Functional Neurosurgery

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Jean Régis WSSFN President Marseille, France Dear Members and Colleagues, It is both an honor and a privilege to introduce myself as the new President of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN). I am deeply grateful for the trust and confidence you have placed in me, and...

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Dear Friends, In 2011, the question of the future of Neurosurgery for Psychiatric Disorders was raised by the WSSFN. A task force was created as a platform for key individuals in Psychiatric Surgery from different continents worldwide, with the aim of exchanging ideas and initiating actions. Bart Nuttin was selected...

Vanessa Milanese, MD, PhD Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery Communication Director Secretary Director of the Brazilian Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Functional Neurosurgeon at Beneficência Portugues of São Paulo Hospital, Brazil Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic Florida, USA From September 3rd to 6th, 2024, the XX World...

Read the article Ten years after a clinical report of DBS for refractory OCD (The Lancet 1999, 354:1526), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as a humanitarian device exemption (HDE H050003, 2009) and a Conformité Européenne (CE mark, 2009)...

Phil Gildenberg was born in March 1935 in Hazelton, PA. He attended Valley Forge Military Academy and was awarded a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with honors having majored in zoology. Dr. Gildenberg then received his MD from the Temple University School of Medicine in 1959....