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This volume highlights the important role played by neurosurgeons and their techniques in neurorehabilitation. The authors review the recent advances made in neurosurgical techniques which can contribute to the patient's functional recovery from neurological deficits, such as movement disorders, bladder dysfunction, pain and other sensory disturbances, and cognitive dysfunction after CNS damage. They also demonstrate that when neurosurgeons are actively involved in applying a multidisciplinary approach during early neurorehabilitation, the patient's functional recovery is greatly facilitated through the timely use of various different neurosurgical techniques, including nerve grafting, cell transplantation, cortical stimulation, deep brain and spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, and intrathecal drug therapy. The importance of such a multidisciplinary approach is discussed in terms of a new concept, the neurosurgical re-engineering of the damaged CNS.

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Author:   Yoichi Katayama
Publisher:   Springer Verlag GmbH
Imprint:   Springer Verlag GmbH
Edition:   2003 ed.
Volume:   87
Dimensions:   Width: 21.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   0.803kg
ISBN:  

9783211009208

ISBN 10:   3211009205
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   28 August 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Prolonged coma, minimally conscious state and persistent vegetative state.- Control of sleep and wakefulness by brainstem monoaminergic and cholinergic neurons.- Electrical treatment of coma via the median nerve.- Regaining consciousness for prolonged comatose patients with right median nerve stimulation.- DBS therapy for a persistent vegetative state: ten years follow-up results.- Clinical study on effect of HBO plus electric stimulation on treatment for the vegetative state.- Effects of musicokinetic therapy and spinal cord stimulation on patients in a persistent vegetative state.- Clinical application of the drug pump for spasticity, pain and restorative neurosurgery.- Intrathecal drug delivery 2002.- Clinical application of drug pump for spasticity, pain, and restorative neurosurgery: other clinical applications of intrathecal baclofen.- Intrathecal baclofen therapy; patient selection & team approach.- Current concepts and strategies of early neurorehabilitation.- New development of functional neurorehabilitation in neurosurgery.- Successful treatment by spinal cord stimulation for gait disturbance in a patient with diffuse axonal injury.- Functional electrical stimulation (FES) for spinal cord injury.- Functional imaging in neurosurgery and neurorehabilitation.- Bold functional MRI may overlook activation areas in the damaged brain.- Acetazolamide vasoreactivity in persistent vegetative state and vascular dementia evaluated by transcranial harmonic perfusion imaging and Doppler sonography.- Impairment of motor function after frontal lobe resection with preservation of the primary motor cortex.- Rehabilitation technique facilitates association cortices in hemiparetic patients: functional MRI study.- Neurosurgical intervention for functional recovery from neurological deficit: Part 1.- Early use of intrathecal baclofen in brain injury in pediatric patients.- Subtonsillar placement of auditory brainstem implant.- Diaphragm pacing with the spinal cord stimulator.- Neurosurgical intervention for functional recovery from neurological deficit: Part 2.- Combined dorsal root entry zone lesions and neural reconstruction for early rehabilitation of brachial plexus avulsion injury.- Functional posterior rhizotomy for severely disabled children with mixed type cerebral palsy.- The role of neurosurgical interventions for control of spasticity in neurorehabilitation: new findings on functional microanatomy of the tibial nerve.- 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?.- Neurosurgical treatment for movement disorders.- Brain stimulation: history, current clinical application, and future prospects.- Deep brain and motor cortex stimulation for post-stroke movement disorders and post-stroke pain.- Chronic simulation of the globus pallidus internus for control of primary generalized dystonia.- Neurosurgical treatment for writer’s cramp.- Neurophysiological identification and characterization of thalamic neurons with single unit recording in essential tremor patients.- Localization of thalamic cells with tremor-frequency activity in Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor.- MR safety in patients with implanted deep brain stimulation systems (DBS).- Pain control.- Primary motor cortex stimulation within the central sulcus for treating deafferentation pain.- Neurons with spontaneous high-frequency discharges in the central nervous system and chronic pain.- Nerve grafting and cell transplantation.- First humanventral mesencephalon and striatum cografting in a Parkinson patient.- Effect of subthalamic lesion with kainic acid on the neuronal activities of the basal ganglia of rat parkinsonian models with 6-hydroxydopamine.- Neural stem/progenitor cells survive and differentiate better in PD rats than in normal rats.- Mesencephalic progenitors can improve rotational behavior and reconstruct nigrostriatal pathway in PD rats.- Author Index.- Index of Keywords.

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