Editorial
Dear colleagues,This is the first special issue of the journal “SechenovMedical Journal” dedicated to applied research inneurosurgery.Neuroscience, especially in its applied, practical,surgical aspects, is one of the most rapidly and intensivelydeveloping fields of science and practice today. It isa scientifically and technologically intensive, demanding,and promising field.Exactly five years ago, the Rector of SechenovUniversity, Academician P.V. Glybochko, made the strategicdecision to further develop world-class neurosurgicalscience and practice at the University. Within this period,the new clinical base at the Federal Centre for Neurosurgeryin Tyumen has been visited by more than 100 internationallyrenowned leaders of world neurosurgery, who have notonly shared, but also advanced with the most state-of-theart neurosurgical technologies and knowledge. The clinicalbase at Sechenov University has gained the status of aworld reference centre; a recognized area of excellence inneurosurgery. The progress of global neurosurgery is nowfirmly and inextricably linked to Sechenov University.This special issue of the “Sechenov Medical Journal”is, I believe, a landmark. It is the first step towards theregular publication of the best cutting edge foreign andRussian research articles in applied neurosurgery, which isboth a big step towards the recognition of the Journal bythe world neurosurgical society as one of the internationallyacknowledged journals in neurosurgery and neuroscience,and a step towards increasing the significance and authorityof Russian medical science in the world.Albert Sufianov, MD, DSc (Med), Prof.Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery,Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University,Chief Physician and Medical Director,Federal Centre of Neurosurgery of Ministry of Health of theRussian Federation (Tyumen, Russia),Active Member of the World Academyof Neurological Surgery (WANS),Chairman of Education Committee of Asian Congressof Neurological Surgeons (ACNS),Member of Education Committee of World Federationof Neurological Societies (WFNS),Honorary professor of Harbin University