Neurosurgical Re-Engineering of the Damaged Brain and Spinal Cord

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Control of sleep and wakefulness by brainstem monoaminergic and cholinergic neurons....Pages 3-6
Electrical treatment of coma via the median nerve....Pages 7-10
Regaining consciousness for prolonged comatose patients with right median nerve stimulation....Pages 11-14
DBS therapy for a persistent vegetative state: ten years follow-up results....Pages 15-18
Clinical study on effect of HBO plus electric stimulation on treatment for the vegetative state....Pages 19-21
Effects of musicokinetic therapy and spinal cord stimulation on patients in a persistent vegetative state....Pages 23-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Intrathecal drug delivery 2002....Pages 29-35
Clinical application of drug pump for spasticity, pain, and restorative neurosurgery: other clinical applications of intrathecal baclofen....Pages 37-38
Intrathecal baclofen therapy; patient selection & team approach....Pages 39-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
New development of functional neurorehabilitation in neurosurgery....Pages 43-47
Successful treatment by spinal cord stimulation for gait disturbance in a patient with diffuse axonal injury....Pages 49-52
Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) for spinal cord injury....Pages 53-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
BOLD functional MRI may overlook activation areas in the damaged brain....Pages 59-62
Acetazolamide vasoreactivity in persistent vegetative state and vascular dementia evaluated by transcranial harmonic perfusion imaging and Doppler sonography....Pages 63-69
Impairment of motor function after frontal lobe resection with preservation of the primary motor cortex....Pages 71-74
Rehabilitation technique facilitates association cortices in hemiparetic patients: functional MRI study....Pages 75-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Early use of intrathecal baclofen in brain injury in pediatric patients....Pages 81-83
Subtonsillar placement of auditory brainstem implant....Pages 85-87
Diaphragm pacing with the spinal cord stimulator....Pages 89-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Combined dorsal root entry zone lesions and neural reconstruction for early rehabilitation of brachial plexus avulsion injury....Pages 95-97
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Functional posterior rhizotomy for severely disabled children with mixed type cerebral palsy....Pages 99-102
The role of neurosurgical interventions for control of spasticity in neurorehabilitation: new findings on functional microanatomy of the tibial nerve....Pages 103-105
Restoration of locomotion in paraplegics with aid of autologous bypass grafts for direct neurotisation of muscles by upper motor neurons — the future: surgery of the spinal cord?....Pages 107-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Brain stimulation: history, current clinical application, and future prospects....Pages 115-120
Deep brain and motor cortex stimulation for post-stroke movement disorders and post-stroke pain....Pages 121-123
Chronic simulation of the globus pallidus internus for control of primary generalized dystonia....Pages 125-128
Neurosurgical treatment for writer’s cramp....Pages 129-131
Neurophysiological identification and characterization of thalamic neurons with single unit recording in essential tremor patients....Pages 133-136
Localization of thalamic cells with tremor-frequency activity in Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor....Pages 137-139
MR safety in patients with implanted deep brain stimulation systems (DBS)....Pages 141-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Primary motor cortex stimulation within the central sulcus for treating deafferentation pain....Pages 149-152
Neurons with spontaneous high-frequency discharges in the central nervous system and chronic pain....Pages 153-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
First human ventral mesencephalon and striatum cografting in a parkinson patient....Pages 159-162
Effect of subthalamic lesion with kainic acid on the neuronal activities of the basal ganglia of rat Parkinsonian models with 6-hydroxydopamine....Pages 163-168
Neural stem/progenitor cells survive and differentiate better in PD rats than in normal rats....Pages 169-174
Mesencephalic progenitors can improve rotational behavior and reconstruct nigrostriatal pathway in PD rats....Pages 175-180
Back Matter....Pages 181-186