New therapeutic strategies in low-grade gliomas (WHO grade 2 gliomas) / Luc Taillandier, Laurent Capelle and Hugues Duffau -- Strategies in brain cancer research / Luciano Neder [and others] -- Perspectives in astrocytic tumor molecular research / Sergio Comincini -- Targeting the renin-angiotens in system and the endothelin axis in human brain cancer / Lucienne Juillerat-Jeanneret -- Central nervous system lymphoma / Andrew Lister, Lauren E. Abrey and John T. Sandlund -- Epigenetic mechanisms in the development of malignancies of the central nervous system (CNS) / Sabrina Schlosser and Michael C. Frühwald -- Neurotrophin receptors and heparanase: a functional axis in human medulloblastoma invasion / Dario Marchetti [and others] -- Psychiatric manifestations of brain tumors / Subramoniam Madhusoodanan [and others] -- The waterjet instrument in neurosurgery: a detailed account of its clinical potential after more than 150 procedures / Joachim Oertel [and others].