Women in Neuromodulation: Innovative Contributions to Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Overview

Journal Front Hum Neurosci

Specialty Neurology

Date 2022 Feb 7

PMID 35126071

Authors

Petra Heiden

Julia Pieczewski

Pablo Andrade

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Abstract

Stereotactic neurosurgery emerged in the mid-20th century following the development of a stereotactic frame by Spiegel and Wycis. Historically women were underrepresented in clinical and academic neurosurgery. There is still a significant deficit of female scientists in this field. This article aims to demonstrate the career and scientific work of some of the most important women who contributed to the development of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. Exceptional women from all over the world, represented in this review, assisted the evolution of modern stereotactic and functional neurosurgery as neurosurgeons, neuropathologists, neurologists, neurophysiologists and occupational therapists. Fortunately, we could conclude that in the last two decades the number of female researchers has increased significantly.

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