Brain Embryology and the Cause of Congenital Malformations, An Issue of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America
The Clinics: Radiology Series

This issue of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America focuses on Brain Embryology and the Cause of Congenital Malformations and is edited by Drs. Thierry A.G.M. Huisman and Avner Meoded. Articles will include: Neuroimaging of normal brain development; Ultrasound and MRI of the normal fetal brain; Spinal dysraphia, Chiari 2 malformation, unified theory and advances in fetoscopic repair; Posterior fossa malformations; Synopsis of brain embryology; Cerebral dysplasia and overgrowth syndromes; Disorders of ventral induction/spectrum of holoprosencephaly; Classification and neurogenetics of intracranial vascular anomalies; DTI of brain malformations: Exploring the internal architecture; Connectomics in brain malformations: How is the malformed brain wired?; Commissural anomalies; and more!

Thierry A.G.M. Huisman is the current Radiologist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Radiology at Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) in Houston, USA. He also holds the Edward B. Singleton Chair of Radiology. He is a tenured Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, Neurology, Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine and holds adjunct Professor Appointments at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Neurosurgery and Pediatrics. Before he joined TCH he served 11 years at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. He was the Chairman of the Department of Imaging and Imaging Science at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. In addition he was the Director of the Division of Pediatric Radiology, Director and founder of the Division of Pediatric Neuroradiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and Co-Director of the Neurointensive Care Nursery (NICN), the Johns Hopkins Fetal Program and the Center for Translational and Molecular Imaging (CTMI). Prior to his tenure at Johns Hopkins he was the Chairman and Radiologist-in-Chief of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging at the University Children's Hospital Zurich. He graduated cum laude from Medical School at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, before completing residencies in Radiology and Pediatrics and fellowships in Pediatric Radiology and Neuroradiology at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Huisman enjoyed a 2.5 years research sabbatical at the Massachusetts General Hospital NMR center, Harvard Medical School in Boston. His primary field of expertise and research focuses on advanced, quantitative, precision imaging in the field of Neuroradiology. He has given more than 470 national and international invited lectures, published 410 articles and 31 reviews, 67 book chapters, 6 text books, serves on multiple scientific committees of the various radiological societies and has organized multiple national and international meetings in Europe and the USA. He has been on