Advances in functional and reparative neurosurgery

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Early rehabilitation of higher cortical brain functioning in neurosurgery, humanizing the restoration of human skills after acute brain lesions....Pages 3-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Deep brain stimulation as a functional scalpel....Pages 13-19
Feed-forward control of post-stroke movement disorders by on-demand type stimulation of the thalamus and motor cortex....Pages 21-23
Pallidal high-frequency deep brain stimulation for camptocormia: an experience of three cases....Pages 25-28
Multimodal neurosurgical strategies for the management of dystonias....Pages 29-31
Detection of boundaries of subthalamic nucleus by multiple-cell spike density analysis in deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease....Pages 33-35
Microelectrode recording: lead point in STN-DBS surgery....Pages 37-42
Follow-up of bilateral subthalamic deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease....Pages 43-47
Rapid subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation lead placement utilising CT/MRI fusion, microelectrode recording and test stimulation....Pages 49-50
FDG-PET study of the bilateral subthalamic nucleus stimulation effects on the regional cerebral metabolism in advanced Parkinson disease....Pages 51-54
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Stimulation of primary motor cortex for intractable deafferentation pain....Pages 57-59
Fifteen year experience of intrathecal baclofen treatment in Japan....Pages 61-63
Electrical stimulation of the anterior cingulate cortex in a rat neuropathic pain model....Pages 65-71
Long term follow-up results of dorsal root entry zone lesions for intractable pain after brachial plexus avulsion injuries....Pages 73-75
Endogenous and exogenous modulators of potentials evoked by a painful cutaneous laser (LEPs)....Pages 77-79
Long term results from percutaneous radiofrequency neurotomy on posterior primary ramus in patients with chronic low back pain....Pages 81-83
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Chronic deep brain stimulation of subthalamic and anterior thalamic nuclei for controlling refractory partial epilepsy....Pages 87-91
Vagus nerve stimulation in pediatric intractable epilepsy: a Korean bicentric study....Pages 93-96
Seizure control of Gamma Knife radiosurgery for non-hemorrhagic arteriovenous malformations....Pages 97-101
Surgical resection of cavernous angiomas located in eloquent areas — clinical research....Pages 103-108
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Spinal cord stimulation and cerebral haemodynamics....Pages 111-116
Idiopathic syringomyelia: case report and review of the literature....Pages 117-120
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Migration of bone marrow stem cells in ischaemic brain....Pages 123-124
The behavioral effect of human mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in cold brain injured rats....Pages 125-132
Effect of human mesenchymal stem cell transplantation combined with growth factor infusion in the repair of injured spinal cord....Pages 133-136
Stem cell therapy in stroke: strategies in basic study and clinical application....Pages 137-139
Neural prosthesis in the wake of nanotechnology: controlled growth of neurons using surface nanostructures....Pages 141-144
A new and simple transection knife for study of neurodegeneration and neuroregeneration in animal model....Pages 145-150
Back Matter....Pages 151-153