1. One year past, the new assignment

   • Eelco F. M. Wijdicks

   Letter From The Editor Pages: 1 - 2

2. What do we really understand about head injury?

   • Michael N. Diringer

   Editorial Pages: 3 - 3

3. Continuous EEG monitoring in comatose intensive care patients

   • G. Bryan Young
   • Gordon S. Doig

   Original Article Pages: 5 - 10

4. Improved outcome in thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair

   • Tatjana M. Fleck
   • Herbert Koinig
   • Martin Grabenwoger

   Original Article Pages: 11 - 16

5. Brain tissue oxygenation in brain death

   • Sylvain Palmer
   • Mary Kay Bader

   Original Article Pages: 17 - 22

6. Diffusion-perfusion MR evaluation and spectroscopy before and after surgical therapy for intracerebral hemorrhage

   • J. Ricardo Carhuapoma
   • Paul Wang
   • Peter B. Barker

   Original Article Pages: 23 - 27

7. Prolonged deficits after focal inhibitory seizures

   • Miguel Bussière
   • David Pelz
   • G. Bryan Young

   Original Article Pages: 29 - 37

8. Effect of methylene blue on middle cerebral artery flow velocity in a patient with severe sepsis following clipping of a cerebral aneurysm

   • David A. Zygun
   • Peter G. Bradley
   • David K. Menon

   Original Article Pages: 39 - 42

9. Blood pressure surge precedes intracerebral hemorrhage

   • Enrique C. Leira
   • Aninda B. Acharya
   • Saleem I. Abdulrauf

   Practical Pearl Pages: 43 - 45

10. Forearm compartment syndrome following intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke

    • Todd R. Yip
    • Bart M. Demaerschalk

    Practical Pearl Pages: 47 - 48

11. Cerebral air embolism secondary to intra-aortic balloon pump rupture

    • Salvador Cruz-Flores
    • Alan L. Diamond
    • Enrique C. Leira

    Practical Pearl Pages: 49 - 50

12. Cervical syringohydromyelia secondary to chronic supratentorial subdural hematoma

    • Kudret Türeyen

    Practical Pearl Pages: 51 - 54

13. Cerebral edema during treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis in an adult with new onset diabetes

    • Patrick J. Troy
    • Roger P. Clark
    • Eric Shore

    Practical Pearl Pages: 55 - 58

14. Neuroprotective effect of an antioxidant in ischemic brain injury

    • Miki Fujimura
    • Teiji Tominaga
    • Pak H. Chan

    Translational Research Pages: 59 - 66

15. Newly developed endoscopic instruments for the removal of intracerebral hematoma

    • Tetsuhiro Nishihara
    • Kazuya Nagata
    • Chikayuki Ochiai

    Take Notice Technology Pages: 67 - 74

16. Maintaining cerebral perfusion pressure is a worthy clinical goal

    • Geoffrey S. F. Ling
    • Chris J. Neal

    Opinions And Arguments Pages: 75 - 81

17. Physiological and biochemical principles underlying volume-targeted therapy—The “lund concept”

    • Carl-Henrik Nordström

    Opinions And Arguments Pages: 83 - 95