Fiona Kennedy, Roland L Featherstone and Martin M Brown from London, UK, give an overview on the current treatment strategies for carotid artery stenosis.

Focused ultrasound has the potential to radically change how diseases and conditions are treated. While currently approved for the treatment of uterine fibroids and pain from bone metastases in some geographies, MR-guided focused ultrasound is being explored for a range of functional, oncologic, neurovascular and psychiatric conditions, Neal F Kassell writes for NeuroNews.

Hubert Fernandez discusses research from the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA, in 2012 for deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease.

Andy Ringer, Mayfield Clinic, Cincinnati, USA, discusses different options to treat unruptured brain aneurysms.

James Byrne, Oxford, UK, was the first neuroradiologist to use the Guglielmi detachable coil in the UK. He tells NeuroNews about the use of the coil changing treatment methods for intracranial aneurysms, his teaching methods at Oxford University and his interests outside of medicine.

Louis Caplan, senior neurologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA, is a pioneer of the Harvard Stroke Registry and the Stroke Data Bank. He spoke to NeuroNews about his career achievements and why he thinks neuroimaging and thrombolysis are the most significant developments in neurology.