Spine neurosurgeons in the Department Neurosurgery use technologies co-developed by faculty members to advance patient care. Plus, a first-of-its-kind lab creates a new class of implantable and wearable medical devices to aid patients with spinal cord injuries.

Pediatric epileptologist Ahmad Marashly joins the institution as the team’s multidisciplinary experts apply new technologies and resources to provide potentially curative options for the youngest patients with epilepsy. The program is among the few of its kind in the U.S.

Johns Hopkins’ neurosurgery, neurology and psychiatry researchers — with colleagues from across disciplines — report that after 24 weeks of deep brain stimulation to a particular part of the organ, a patient’s long-experienced hallucinations and suspicious delusions entirely ceased.