by Gian Luigi Lenzi
The first paper that I would like to point out to Neuropenews readers was published as a “Perspective” in the September issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) by Michael S. Okun, with the title “Deep-brain stimulation – Entering the era of human network modulation”, on the occasion of the Lasker-Debakey Clinical Medical Research Award that in 2014 was given to “…two pioneers in deep-brain stimulation (DBS): Alim-Louis Benabid, a neurosurgeon, and Mahlon DeLong, a neurologist”.
The second paper that I would like to signal to our readers is the Editorial “Atrial fibrillation in cryptogenic stroke: look harder, look longer, but just keep looking”, published online in Stroke on September 9, 2014; 45. Cryptogenic stroke has been my personal soft-spot in the last years of my academic career, and I am particularly happy to declare my full agreement with the concepts represented in this Editorial.
