Cranial Nerves and Spinal CSF Leak For day four of Brain Awareness Week, we’re discussing the impact of spinalcerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak on cranial nerves. The cranial nerves are a group of 12 paired nerves that start in the back of your brain and extend...
Chiari 1 Malformation and Spinal CSF Leak Sometimes, intracranial hypotension (low volume of cerebrospinal fluid within the skull) due to spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak can be mistakenly attributed to Chiari 1 malformation. What is Chiari 1 malformation?...
Head pain due to spinal CSF leak For many people experiencing spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak, the most prominent symptom is head pain that worsens when upright and improves when lying down. But some patients never experience this kind of orthostatic...
National Women Physicians Day marks the birthday of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to earn a medical degree. Blackwell was drawn to medicine after a dying friend remarked that had a female doctor cared for her, she might not have suffered so much....
Dr. Wouter Schievink at the 2023 Cedars-Sinai Intracranial Hypotension Conference Dr. Wouter Schievink, Professor of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, CA, presented this talk on “Types of Spontaneous Leaks: Anatomy and Pathogenesis” at the 2023 Cedars-Sinai...
Dr. Geoffrey Parker at the 2023 Cedars-Sinai Intracranial Hypotension Conference Dr. Geoffrey Parker, of Macquarie University Hospital in Australia, presented this talk on “SIH Cranial Imaging: Qualitative and Quantitative” at the 2023 Cedars-Sinai Intracranial...
