By Andres M. Lozano, Philip L. Gildenberg, Ronald R. Tasker

This quantity covers stereotactic ideas and practical stereotaxis. among the stereotactic rules are discussions of frame-based and frameless platforms of stereotaxis, photograph assistance stereotaxis, atlases and the technical facets of radiosurgery. inside of useful neurosurgery, problems lined contain the analysis and administration of discomfort, epilepsy, circulation issues and the rediscovered box of surgical procedure for psychiatric issues.

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In particular, he and his group amassed a large series of patients who underwent subthalamic stimulation for Parkinson’s disease and published very important findings about both the usefulness of this procedure and its complications [20,21]. After Villemure’s retirement in 2006, his activities in the functional field were continued by his disciples Jocelyne Bloch and Claudio Pollo under his successor as chairman, Marc Levivier. Joachim-Kurt Krauss, currently chief of neurosurgery at the Medizinische Hochschule in Hanover (Germany), briefly headed the functional neurosurgery unit at the University of Berne in the 1990s.

Mx Jerrold L. gov Juhn A. ca Marcos Velasco Epilepsy Surgery Clinic; Unit for Stereotactic, Functional Neurosurgery and Radiosurgery, General Hospital of Mexico City, Mexico J. Walter Ames Associate (Smart Systems and Nanotechnology), NASA Ames Research Center, CA 94035, Moffett Field, USA J. C. ca Karin N. O. be Robert E. Wharen, Jr. edu Edward White Institute of Neurosciences, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol BS16 1LE, UK xlix l List of contributors Donald M. ch William D. Willis, Jr. edu Shiao Y. fr Chun-Po Yen Lars Leksell Center for Gamma Surgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA Jianguo Zhang Center for Functional Neurosurgery (BMS), Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ruijin Hospital and Department of Functional Neurosurgery (JGZ,KZ, FGM), Beijing Tiantan Hospital, People’s Republic of China Kai Zhang Center for Functional Neurosurgery (BMS), Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ruijin Hospital and Department of Functional Neurosurgery (JGZ,KZ, FGM), Beijing Tiantan Hospital, People’s Republic of China Ludvic U.

In 1928, Antoˆnio Austrege´silo Rodrigues Lima, an eminent neurologist and the first Professor of Neurology in Brazil (1912, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, as it is called today), visited many neurosurgical services in USA, including those headed by Cushing, Dandy, Adson, and Frazier, and was very impressed with what he saw. Back to Brazil, he urged the brilliant and very skillful general surgeon, Alfredo Monteiro, and his young and recently graduated (1927) assistant, Jose´ Ribe Portugal, to start neurosurgery in Brazil.

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