biology

World Neurosurgery

World Neurosurgery is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand World Neurosurgery rather than just read about it. In short: World Neurosurgery is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that was established in 1973 as Surgical Neurology before obtaining its current name in 2010. It is published by Elsevier and is the official journal of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.

Key takeaways

World Neurosurgery belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect World Neurosurgery to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of World Neurosurgery from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

World Neurosurgery is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that was established in 1973 as Surgical Neurology before obtaining its current name in 2010. It is published by Elsevier and is the official journal of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. The editor-in-chief is Edward C. Benzel (Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic).

Editors-in-chief Editors-in-chief have included:

Paul Bucy (Wake Forest University School of Medicine) and Robert J. White (Case Western Reserve University), 1973-1985 Eben Alexander Jr (Bowman Gray School of Medicine), 1986-1993 James I. Ausman (University of Illinois at Chicago and University of California, Los Angeles), 1994-2009 Michael L.J. Apuzzo (Keck School of Medicine of USC), 2010–2015 Edward C. Benzel (Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, January, 2015–present

Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.104.

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with World Neurosurgery

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what World Neurosurgery claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to World Neurosurgery before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about World Neurosurgery ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of World Neurosurgery

In research: World Neurosurgery appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses World Neurosurgery in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: World Neurosurgery is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic journals established in 1973, Elsevier academic journals, English-language journals, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for World Neurosurgery outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study World Neurosurgery in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what World Neurosurgery means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain World Neurosurgery out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is World Neurosurgery in simple terms?

Why does World Neurosurgery matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study World Neurosurgery?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on World Neurosurgery.