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...
Navigating the Brain with Precision Consider the challenge of traversing an unfamiliar city without a map—relying solely on intuition to avoid dead ends and critical intersections. Now envision that city as the human brain, where I, as a neurosurgeon, must navigate...
Welcome to the Brain Revolution! Picture this: you’re sitting at your desk, sipping coffee, and instead of typing an email, you just think it—bam, it’s done. Or maybe you’re a gamer, moving your character through a dragon-infested dungeon with nothing but a mental...
