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Scientific articles

"The impossible doesn't exist" Dr AFIF

2022 Dec 23

Evaluation of Selective Tibial Neurotomy for the Spastic Foot Treatment Using a Personal Goal-Centered Approach: A 1-Year Cohort Study

2020 Sep 18

Stimulation of the motor cerebral cortex in chronic neuropathic pain: the role of electrode localization over motor somatotopy

03 Jul, 2019

​Decompressive Craniectomy Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury with an Initial Glasgow Coma Scale Score of 3 or 4

December 2017

L’importance de la somatotopie pour obtenir des effets analgésiques dans la stimulation du cortex moteur à visée antalgique

October 2017

The importance of somatotopy to achieve clinical benefit in motor cortex stimulation for pain relief

2017 May 25

Insular gliomas: a surgical reappraisal based on a systematic review of the literature

2014 Jun 28

Development of the sensorimotor cortex in the human fetus: a morphological description

2014 May 20

Anatomy of the pineal region applied to its surgical approach

2014 Jan-Feb

Is Life better after motor cortex stimulation for pain control? Results at long-term and their prediction by preoperative rTMS

December 2013

rTMS prediction of quality of life after long-term motor cortex stimulation

2013 Mar

Definition of a stereotactic 3-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging template of the human insula

September 2012

Definition of a Stereotactic 3D Model of The Human Insula for Neurosurgical approach (Epilepsy and Stereotaxic Surgery)

August 2012

Morphometry and localization of the temporal transverse Heschl's gyrus in magnetic resonance imaging: A guide for cortical stimulation of chronic tinnitus

March 9th, 2012

Robotic Arm and Imaging in Neurosurgical Stereotactic Interventions: Oblique Insular Electrodes Implanted in Patients with Epilepsy

2010 Oct 13

Anatomofunctional organization of the insular cortex: a study using intracerebral electrical stimulation in epileptic patients

Description of sulcal organization of the insular cortex

2009 Nov 12

MRI-Based Definition of a Stereotactic Two-Dimensional Template of the Human Insula

October 2009

Normalization radiomorphologique de l'hippocampe

2009 Aug 19

Middle short gyrus of the insula implicated in speech production: intracerebral electric stimulation of patients with epilepsy

October 2008

Implication of gyrus moyen brevis de l’insula in les parole procédures: etude par stimulations électriques intracérébrales chez l’homme epileptique

October 2008

Modification of IRM lobe insulator cerebral in 3D at home

2008 May

Safety and Usefulness of Insular Depth Electrodes Implanted Via an Oblique Approach in Patients with Epilepsy

2008 Mar 25

Middle short gyrus of the insula implicated in pain processing

November 2007

Etude du veloppement foetal du cortex insulaire

Development of the human fetal insular cortex: study of the gyration from 13 to 28 gestational weeks

1st price at the 2nd East Mediterranean Epilepsy Congress in Dubai.

Presentation entitled: “Definition of astereotactic 3D template of the human insulaeks

2006

1st price at the Congress of the Society of Neurosurgery of the French Language, Paris.

Presentation entitled: "Modeling IRM of the cerebral insular lobe in 2D in humans".

Dr Afif Afif Neurosurgeon, surgery
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