Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

By Guido Nikkhah

Book Overview

The birth of human stereotactic surgery.- Functional neurosurgery in Parkinson's disease: a long journey from destruction over modulation towards restauration.- Improving MRT image quality in patients with movement disorders.- STN Stimulation in general anaesthesia: evidence beyond 'evidence-based medicine'.- The impact of multichannel microelectrode recording (MER) in deep brain stimulation of the basal ganglia.- A comparison between stereotactic targeting methods of the subthalamic nucleus in cases with Parkinson's disease.- Behind the screen: pseudobulbar symptoms after deep brain stimulation.- Psychiatric side effects of bilateral deep brain stimulation for movement disorders.- Active stimulation site of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation in obsessive-compulsive disorder is localized in the ventral internal capsule.- Functional neurosurgery for secondary dystonia: indications and long-term results.- Deep brain stimulation of the ventrolateral thalamic base and posterior subthalamic area in dystonic head tremor.- Intra-operative transdural electric stimulation in awake patient: Target refining for motor cortex stimulation.- Restorative strategies for the dopaminergic nigrostriatal projection pathway.- Some recent trends and further promising directions in functional neurosurgery.- Impact of automated hotspot detection for 18FET PET-guided stereotactic biopsy.- Interstitial radiosurgery with Iodine-125 seeds in the treatment of brain metastases, glial tumours, and benign intracranial lesions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3709116686
• ISBN13: 9783709116685
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 11.0"