Kathleen Seidel, senior physician at the Department of Neurosurgery at Inselspital, has been awarded second place in the 2018 Swiss Neurosurgical Society (SGNC) research prize for her work “Intraoperative identification of the corticospinal tract and dorsal column of the spinal cord by electrical stimulation”. The prize of 3,000 Swiss francs was presented to her on May 25, 2018 at the joint annual conference of the SGNC and the Swiss Society of Neuroradiology (SGNR).

Kathleen Seidel and her team have developed a method that makes it possible to operate even more safely on tumors in the spinal cord. With the help of certain stimulation parameters, a kind of electrical radar can be used to locate important pathways in the spinal cord and protect them during the operation. In addition, the motor pathways can be distinguished from the sensory and positional pathways, thus creating a kind of road map of the spinal cord for the surgeon. The work was carried out as a multi-center project here at Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, with the cantonal hospital in Lucerne, as well as in New York and Verona.

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