The Latest from Dr. Charles L. Rosen

I'm getting a lot of questions these days about aneurysms and Emilia Clarke, the game of Thrones star, and the unusual aspect of her history is to having multiple aneurysms that needed care, so I wanted to talk a little bit about how often we see that. The...

Last year I got asked a lot about the terrible tragedy related to the brain eating Amoeba or brain eating bug as it's called in the press. First off, these are relatively uncommon. They are horrific when they occur, but they're not common. What it is, is...

With the temperature increasing, as a motorcyclist, I'm very aware of the issues of heat exhaustion and heat stroke, and these are very dangerous issues. Our bodies need to stay at a standard temperature (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, 37 degrees Celsius), and...

Certainly one of the most rewarding surgeries I've been involved in is those that a positive impact on people's abilities to see. Perhaps the most common thing I see is somebody who has a pituitary tumor or the pituitary gland sits sort of straight back...

Back pain is probably one of the most common complaints that anybody has in their life. They usually say the two most common complaints patients can have in their life are headache and back pain. Some people really suffer from just intolerable back pain...

Following the recent stories regarding noted Game of Thrones Actress, Emilia Clarke, there has been much interest in cerebral aneurysms–what they are, what they do, and how you take care of them. With cerebral aneurysms, the heart pumps blood under high...

Face pain is something that I've got many patients sent to me for and I wanted to talk a little about this because there's a lot of misconceptions about this. Face pain can be divided into all different types and as a neurosurgeon, I deal with something...

So many of us face the dilemma of a family member, an older family member, a parent, and aunt and uncle, who starts having some memory problems and there are the issues of dementia. Unfortunately, many dementias are difficult to treat, tend to be...

As a cranial base and neurovascular surgeon, I often get asked to see patients with aneurysms and there's a lot of controversy about the management of aneurysms. The first controversy is which aneurysms should be treated and which aneurysms shouldn't be...

In fall, one of the things that we start to see as the weather changes is slipperier conditions in particular when we start getting ice in the morning–something for everybody to be aware of. In particular, for our parents, or for some of the older members...

I have the good fortune to take care of a many number of patients with a Chiari malformation, so I thought I'd use this opportunity to talk a little bit about it. There are multiple types of Chiari malformations, one, two, three, Chiari four. Three and...

So it's a late fall and, for our family, snowboarding is becoming a big issue and I wanted to talk again about helmets. I've talked in the past about the importance of helmets with the motorcycling–it's equally as important with snowboarding. My son likes...

When in clinic, I often see patients with “Chiari malformation.” What is it? What do we do about it? I will try my best to explain in a way that is accessible to my non-neurosurgeon friends. There are two major types of Chiari malformation: Chiari I and...

To play or not to play?. . a question more and more parents are asking. Not that long ago, little to no consideration was given to the risks of head injuries in children’s sports. The perception was that sports provided an opportunity for individual...

Dr. Charles L. Rosen, Neurosurgeon of Morgantown, WV, discusses head injuries in children. Anybody who's raised a child has watched their child get hurt, unfortunately, playing sports or playing around outside and the big issue is always deciphering when...