If a medical provider has just said to you that the child whom you love has a brain tumor, you probably have feelings of confusion, worry and even fear. The phrase “brain tumor” often evokes imaginations of incurability or impairment which make one feel an urger need for hope.
At New Jersey Pediatric Neuroscience Institute our pediatric neurosurgeons and neurologists work in very close collaboration with pediatric oncologists, neuroradiologists, radiation health physicians and with physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists, to assure the best possible outcome for every child who presents with a brain tumor. Working with these colleagues helps us to assure that every child achieves the most optimal recovery after treatment.
Here at NJPNI we know all the worries and uneasy feelings that the diagnosis of a pediatric brain tumor brings, but we also know how to bring together all the resources which will empower your child’s journey to wellness. Our team, together with our multi-specialty network, remains committed to each child and family throughout the entire course of the child’s care and even beyond that with ongoing follow-up.
Through our multidisciplinary collaborative network, we can also make available advanced non-operative treatments such as conformational radiation therapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, proton beam radiosurgery, chemotherapy and targeted molecular therapy.
Here at NJPNI we know all the worries and uneasy feelings that the diagnosis of a pediatric brain tumor brings, but we also know how to bring together all the resources which will empower your child’s journey to wellness. Our team, together with our multi-specialty network, remains committed to each child and family throughout the entire course of the child’s care and even beyond that with ongoing follow-up.
On this website we have begun to upload explanations about various types of pediatric brain tumors. The goal of these presentations is to transform details of medical information into reassuring understanding. It is one more way that we can reach out to you with a helping hand and that offers knowledgeable guidance.
Your brain has very many little grey cells that make it possible for you to think, feel, learn, remember, see, hear, talk, sing, run, jump, play, and do everything else that you do.
Those 86 billion neurons send out long fibers to connect with each other. Those fibers are like telegraph wires they use to send messages throughout the brain.
The “brain wires” that neurons use to send messages are called AXONS
The “brain wires” that neurons use to receive messages are called DENDRITES
Added all together, the total length of all the axons and dendrite in your brain is about 500,000 kilometers (310,686 miles). That is greater than the distance between the earth and the moon!!
When special MRI brain scan images are performed to reveal the thousands of kilometers of interconnecting brain axons, they appear as bundles of fibers that travel in specific directions.
When the special MRI scan is set to identify bundles of axons that travel specifically from one point in the brain to another point in the brain, specific pathways of axon interconnection are revealed.
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