There has been a resurgence in stereotactic surgery for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, tremor, and dystonia, and with it a growing need for up-to-date information about these procedures. In Surgical Treatment of Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders, a panel of highly experienced neurosurgeons, neurophysiologists, neuropsychologists, and neuroanatomists join forces to create an integrated, cutting-edge survey of all 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 subthalamic 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 patient selection, patient assessment before and after surgery, brain target localization, and postoperative programming of brain stimulators. Comprehensive and authoritative, Surgical Treatment of Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders integrates the diverse techniques now available in this rapidly growing field to provide a practical guide to effective treatment of patients afflicted with these disorders.

InhaltsangabePart 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 Sidibé, 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. Tröster 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 MolinaNegro 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