Neurosurgical Focus covers a different topic in-depth each month. Enhanced by color images and video clips, each peer-reviewed issue constitutes a state-of-the-art “textbook chapter” in the field of neurosurgery. 

While Neurosurgical Focus is open-access and has been free to the public since 1996, claiming CME credit is free only for AANS members. Each monthly issue offers 3 credits - earn up to 36 CME annually.

Upon completion of this CME activity, participants should be able to:

1. Describe personalized functional mapping for the safe maximal resection of brain lesions.
2. Express a greater knowledge of novel techniques for mapping cortical and white matter.
3. Recognize the roles of preoperative and intraoperative mapping techniques for contemporary neurosurgical procedures.
4. Review mapping techniques, analytical approaches, outcomes, and multimodality comparisons used in brain mapping.