By Symeon Missios, MD — Long Island Brain & Spine A woman in her early sixties comes into my office holding a folded MRI report. She is calm at the front desk but unspools by the time she sits down. Her primary care doctor ordered the scan after a few weeks of...
By Symeon Missios, MD — Long Island Brain & Spine A man in his late sixties is brought into the emergency room by his daughter. She tells the triage nurse she found him slumped at the kitchen table that morning, unable to lift his right arm, his speech slurred...
By Symeon Missios, MD — Long Island Brain & Spine A patient sits across from me in my office in West Islip. She has just been told she has a small meningioma near the base of her skull. Her surgeon — that’s me — is recommending a treatment called...
By Symeon Missios, MD — Long Island Brain & Spine It almost always starts the same way. A patient comes in for something unrelated — a persistent headache after a car accident, dizziness that wouldn’t go away, a minor fall with a confused moment. A CT or MRI...
By Symeon Missios, MD — Long Island Brain & Spine Imagine you’re sitting in a waiting room, MRI images in hand, trying to process what the doctor just told you. There’s a herniated disc at L4-L5. Or stenosis at three levels. Or degeneration that looks,...
Demystifying Brain Myths: What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Neurosurgery Movies and television have long been fascinated with the human brain. From dramatic emergency surgeries to miraculous awakenings and sudden personality changes, neurosurgery is often portrayed as...
