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INTRODUCTION: Citation number can be considered a measure of a publication’s academic influence. Previous studies have suggested a citation number greater than 50 and a citation rate higher than 5 per year constitute a high impact in neurosurgery. We set out to determine and categorise the most highly influential papers related to the neurosurgical management of paediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumours between 2005-2010. METHODS: Child’s Nervous System, Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurosurgery were previously identified as publishing the most influential papers in paediatric neurosurgery. All papers published by these journals between 2005-2010 were collected from Web of Science. Papers describing surgical management of paediatric CNS neoplasms were identified and the 50 most cited were determined. RESULTS: Of the most highly cited papers, 54% were published in Child’s Nervous System, 26% in Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics and 20% in Pediatric Neurosurgery. The citation number ranged from 27-93 (mean = 43) and citations rate (per year) ranged from 2.31-8.25. Of the top 50 papers, 24% had more than 50 citations and 8 of these had a citation rate greater than 5 per year. 72% of papers were experiential studies and 24% were review articles. 42% described surgical management of craniopharyngiomas and 10% related to management of posterior fossa tumours. There were no randomised controlled trials. CONCLUSION: Between 2005-2010, 8 papers related to surgical management of paediatric CNS tumours can be considered as having high impact in the literature. The majority of papers focused on surgical management of craniopharyngiomas.

This presentation describes the “crush” experience as it occurs among older adults. A basic definition of a crush is a one-sided, proto-romantic relationship. The scholarly and commonsense understanding in American culture focuses on the crush as most commonly occurring during the developmental phases of adolescence and pre-adolescence. Symbolic interactionists view life course as a somewhat fluid process of adapting to changing situations in life. Experiences like the crush can potentially occur at almost any age at which romantic thoughts and feelings are possible. Our ethnographic research on older adults residing either in group facilities or in domiciliary locations indicates that crushes are fairly common. These crushes follow the same general narrative as crushes among younger people: a beginning, a middle and an end. There are two narrative styles among older adults: face-to-face and mediated. The crush in a group facility is encouraged by interaction during social hours, meals, entertainment, and religious/spiritual activities. Crushes are more observable among women who do not have to delve into their past for objects of their affection. Available paramours from the mass media include young celebrities such as Michael Buble and Josh Groban. These crushes differ from those among younger women in the denouement, to the degree affection generally fades away from memory rather than comes to a distinct end. Factors such as increased access to electronic media and music, and increased sociality in the community and in residential environments will create situations in which the security, excitement and rewards of a crush are plausible.

Little is known about the neural correlates of financial exploitation (FE) in older adults. Cognitively-intact older adults who self-reported a history of FE (N=19; M age=69.84, SD=13.06) and demographically-matched non-FE older adults (N=16; M age=65.13, SD=8.48) underwent resting-state fMRI. Predefined regions of interest were prescribed using the Harvard-Oxford atlas for their involvement in tasks of economic decision making: insula, hippocampus, and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Analyses adjusted for age, education, sex, and MoCA scores; groups did not differ on these factors. Clusters were FDR-corrected with a threshold of p