Dear Byvaltsev Vadim,

We are pleased to deliver your requested table of contents alert for Acta Neurochirurgica. Volume 158 Number 12 is now available online.

Review Article - History of Neurosurgery

The history of head transplantation: a review

Nayan Lamba, Daniel Holsgrove & Marike L. Broekman

Philosophical aspects of body transplantation

Torbjorn Tannsjo

The EANS Ethico-legal Committee finds the proposed head transplant project unethical

Jannick Brennum

A recent experience as neurosurgical registrar in UK. “Legal” differences with the Italian system and on-call duties

Lorenzo Nigro

Decision-making in a patient with cardiac arrest due to venous thromboembolism within 24 h after glioblastoma resection

D. Dubinski, S-Y. Won, M. Bruder, M-T. Forster, V. Seifert, C. Senft, J. Berkefeld & J. Mersmann

Resection of highly language-eloquent brain lesions based purely on rTMS language mapping without awake surgery

Sebastian Ille, Nico Sollmann, Vicki M. Butenschoen, Bernhard Meyer, Florian Ringel & Sandro M. Krieg

Comparison between electric-field-navigated and line-navigated TMS for cortical motor mapping in patients with brain tumors

Nico Sollmann, Moritz F. Goblirsch-Kolb, Sebastian Ille, Vicki M. Butenschoen, Tobias Boeckh-Behrens, Bernhard Meyer, Florian Ringel & Sandro M. Krieg

How I do it. The pedicled temporoparietal fascia flap for skull base reconstruction after endonasal endoscopic approaches

Mathieu Veyrat, Benjamin Verillaud, Philippe Herman & Damien Bresson

The association between the pulse pressure gradient at the cranio-cervical junction derived from phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging and invasively measured pulsatile intracranial pressure in symptomatic patients with Chiari malformation type 1

Radek Frič, Erika Kristina Lindstrøm, Geir Andre Ringstad, Kent-André Mardal & Per Kristian Eide

Does aqueductal stenosis influence the lumbar infusion test in normal-pressure hydrocephalus?

Emilio Luis González-Martínez & David Santamarta

Multimodal analysis to predict shunt surgery outcome of 284 patients with suspected idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

Antti J. Luikku, Anette Hall, Ossi Nerg, Anne M. Koivisto, Mikko Hiltunen, Seppo Helisalmi, Sanna-Kaisa Herukka, Anna Sutela, Maria Kojoukhova, Jussi Mattila, Jyrki Lötjönen, Jaana Rummukainen, Irina Alafuzoff, Juha E. Jääskeläinen, Anne M. Remes, Hilkka Soininen & Ville Leinonen

Biofilm-associated infection: the hidden face of cerebrospinal fluid shunt malfunction

Roman Mounier, Natacha Kapandji, Ron Birnbaum, Fabrice Cook, Cristophe Rodriguez, Bibba Nebbad, David Lobo & Gilles Dhonneur

Occult shunt infections—think of biofilms

Zvi Harry Rappaport

Use of the Brainlab Disposable Stylet for endoscope and peel-away navigation

Jane Halliday & Ian Kamaly

The value of 3D-FIESTA MRI in detecting non-iatrogenic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea: correlations with endoscopic endonasal surgery

Tao Xie, Wei Sun, Xiaobiao Zhang, Tengfei Liu, Hailing Ding, Fan Hu, Yong Yu & Ye Gu

Management of bone fragments in nonmissile compound depressed skull fractures

Mohamed AbdelRahman AbdelFatah

Can early clinical parameters predict post-traumatic pituitary dysfunction in severe traumatic brain injury?

O. Nemes, N. Kovacs, Sz. Szujo, B. Bodis, L. Bajnok, A. Buki, T. Doczi, E. Czeiter & E. Mezosi

Factors predicting the outcome following surgical treatment of mesial temporal epilepsy due to mesial temporal sclerosis

Rodrigo Antonio Rocha da Cruz Adry, Lucas Crociati Meguins, Sebastião Carlos da Silva Júnior, Carlos Umberto Pereira, Gerardo Maria de Araújo Filho & Lúcia Helena Neves Marques

Spinal cord stimulation during the antepartum and intrapartum periods: a case report showing no deleterious effect of conventional paraesthesia producing stimulation

Ahmad Abdelhai Moussa, Laurence Glancz, Mausumi Das & Surajit Basu