A doctor who specializes in surgery on the brain, spine, and other parts of the nervous system
Neurosurgeons operate on the brain and spinal cord and are often attending physicians for patients with brain injuries during the acute hospitalization
a surgical specialty concerned with the treatment of diseases and disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral and sympathetic nervous system top
a medical discipline that provides the operative and non-operative care of disorders that affect the central, peripheral and autonomic nervous system (including their supportive structures and vascular supply), and the operative and non-operative management of pain It encompasses disorders of the brain, skull, pituitary gland, spinal cord, cranial and spinal nerves and the autonomic nervous system