Neurosurgical Re-Engineering of the Damaged Brain and Spinal Cord

Chapter 1 Control of sleep and wakefulness by brainstem monoaminergic and cholinergic neurons

Chapter 2 Electrical treatment of coma via the median nerve.

Chapter 3 Regaining consciousness for prolonged comatose patients with right median nerve stimulation.

Chapter 4 DBS therapy for a persistent vegetative state: ten years follow-up results

Chapter 5 Clinical study on effect of HBO plus electric stimulation on treatment for the vegetative state

Chapter 6 Effects of musicokinetic therapy and spinal cord stimulation on patients in a persistent vegetative state.

Chapter 7 Intrathecal drug delivery 2002

Chapter 8 Clinical application of drug pump for spasticity, pain, and restorative neurosurgery: other clinical applications of intrathecal baclofen

Chapter 9 Intrathecal baclofen therapy; patient selection & team approach

Chapter 10 New development of functional neurorehabilitation in neurosurgery

Chapter 11 Successful treatment by spinal cord stimulation for gait disturbance in a patient with diffuse axonal injury

Chapter 12 Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) for spinal cord injury

Chapter 13 BOLD functional MRI may overlook activation areas in the damaged brain

Chapter 14 Acetazolamide vasoreactivity in persistent vegetative state and vascular dementia evaluated by transcranial harmonic perfusion imaging and Doppler sonography

Chapter 15 Impairment of motor function after frontal lobe resection with preservation of the primary motor cortex

Chapter 16 Rehabilitation technique facilitates association cortices in hemiparetic patients: functional MRI study

Chapter 17 Early use of intrathecal baclofen in brain injury in pediatric patients

Chapter 18 Subtonsillar placement of auditory brainstem implant

Chapter 19 Diaphragm pacing with the spinal cord stimulator

Chapter 20 Combined dorsal root entry zone lesions and neural reconstruction for early rehabilitation of brachial plexus avulsion injury

Chapter 21 Functional posterior rhizotomy for severely disabled children with mixed type cerebral palsy

Chapter 22 The role of neurosurgical interventions for control of spasticity in neurorehabilitation: new findings on functional microanatomy of the tibial nerve

Chapter 23 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?

Chapter 24 Brain stimulation: history, current clinical application, and future prospects.

Chapter 25 Deep brain and motor cortex stimulation for post-stroke movement disorders and post-stroke pain

Chapter 26 Chronic simulation of the globus pallidus internus for control of primary generalized dystonia

Chapter 27 Neurosurgical treatment for writer's cramp.

Chapter 28 Neurophysiological identification and characterization of thalamic neurons with single unit recording in essential tremor patients

Chapter 29 Localization of thalamic cells with tremor-frequency activity in Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor

Chapter 30 MR safety in patients with implanted deep brain stimulation systems (DBS).

Chapter 31 Primary motor cortex stimulation within the central sulcus for treating deafferentation pain

Chapter 32 Neurons with spontaneous high-frequency discharges in the central nervous system and chronic pain

Chapter 33 First human ventral mesencephalon and striatum cografting in a Parkinson patient.

Chapter 34 Effect of subthalamic lesion with kainic acid on the neuronal activities of the basal ganglia of rat Parkinsonian models with 6-hydroxydopamine

Chapter 35 Neural stem/progenitor cells survive and differentiate better in PD rats than in normal rats

Chapter 36 Mesencephalic progenitors can improve rotational behavior and reconstruct nigrostriatal pathway in PD rats