Main description:

A panel of highly experienced neurosurgeons, neurophysiologists, neuropsychologists, and neuroanatomists join forces to create an integrated, cutting-edge survey all of the methodologies necessary for successful surgical treatment. On the surgical side they review a variety of techniques for Parkinson's disease, including thalamotomy, pallidotomy and bilateral pallidotomy, subthalamotomy, pallidal and thalamic deep brain stimulation, and subthalmic deep brain stimulation. Surgical therapy for tremor and dystonia is also covered. On the patient side, the authors systematically examine the key issues involved in any surgical procedure: Patient selection, patient assessment before and after surgery, brain target localization, and postoperative programming of brain stimulators.

Contents:

Part I. Rationale for Surgical Therapy

Physiology of the Basal Ganglia and Pathophysiology of Movement Disorders
Thomas Wichmann and Jerrold L. Vitek

Basal Ganglia Circuitry and Synaptic Connectivity, Ali Charara, Mamadou Sidibe, and Yoland Smith

Surgical Treatment of Parkinson's Disease: Past, Present, and Future
William C. Koller, Alireza Minagar, Kelly E. Lyons, and Rajesh Pahwa

Part II. Surgical Therapy for Parkinson's Disease and Tremor

Patient Selection for Movement Disorders Surgery
Rajeev Kumar and Anthony E. Lang

Methods of Patient Assessment in Surgical Therapy for Movement Disorders
Esther Cubo and Christopher G. Goetz

Target Localization in Movement Disorders Surgery
Michael Kaplitt, William D. Hutchison, and Andres M. Lozano

Thalamotomy for Tremor
Sherwin E. Hua, Ira M. Garonzik, Jung-Il Lee, and Frederick A. Lenz

Pallidotomy for Parkinson's Disease
Diane K. Sierens and Roy A. E. Bakay

Bilateral Pallidotomy in Parkinson's Disease: Costs and Benefits
Simon Parkin, Carole Joint, Richard Scott, and Tipu Z. Aziz

Subthalamotomy for Parkinson's Disease
Steven S. Gill, Nikunj K. Patel, and Peter Heywood

Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease and Essential Tremor
Daniel Tarsy, Thorkild Norregaard, and Jean Hubble

Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
Jens Volkmann and Volker Sturm

Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
Aviva Abosch, Anthony E. Lang, William D. Hutchison, and Andres M. Lozano

Methods of Programming and Patient Management with Deep Brain Stimulation
Rajeev Kumar

The Role of Neuropsychological Evaluation in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Movement Disorders
Alexander I. Troester and Julie A. Fields

Surgical Treatment of SecondaryTremor
J. Eric Ahlskog, Joseph Y. Matsumoto, and Dudley H. Davis

Part III. Surgical Therapy for Dystonia

Thalamotomy for Dystonia
Ronald R. Tasker

Pallidotomy and Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation for Dystonia
Aviva Abosch, Jerrold L. Vitek, and Andres M. Lozano

Surgical Treatment of Spasmodic Torticollis by Peripheral Denervation
Pedro Molina-Negro and Guy Bouvier

Intrathecal Baclofen for Dystonia and Related Motor Disorders
Blair Ford

Part IV. Miscellaneous

Positron Emission Tomography in Surgery for Movement Disorders
Masafumi Fukuda, Christine Edwards, and David Eidelberg

Fetal Tissue Transplantation for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
Paul Greene and Stanley Fahn

Future Surgical Therapies in Parkinson's Disease
Un Jung Kang, Nora Papasian, Jin Woo Chang, and Won Yong Lee

Index