Neurosurgical diagnostics – the real work

In this paper, the issue of a creative approach to the formulation of a neurosurgical diagnosis is revealed. Modern theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the brain in its various lesions are analyzed. It is shown how diagnosis and surgical treatment are practically implemented through clinical thinking. A special place is occupied by the problems of proper diagnosis of neurosurgical diseases. The exceptional importance of a creative approach in diagnosis and the role of a neurosurgeon as a creator in deciding on the expediency and timeliness of surgical treatment of a patient, and not as a disease, is substantiated