Neurology category: 2138 books
by Ronald L. Van Heertum, Ronald S. Tikofsky, Masanori Ichise
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
This Fourth Edition reflects the significant recent progress that has occurred in functional brain imaging, particularly the increased use of PET/SPECT, the use of SPECT and PET in movement disorders and dementia, and advances in radiopharmaceutical development and instrumentation. Chapter topics include...
Personality and Neurosurgery
Proceedings of the Third Convention of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica Brussels, August 30–September 2, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The human personality is inextricably bound up with, among other things, the function of the central nervous system. Diseases and malfunctions of the brain, head injuries and neurosurgical operations can all result in permanently altered behaviour patterns. This interrelation between brain and behaviour...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
At the request of a Subcommittee of the United States Senate, in February, 1975, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (now the National Institute of Neurological and Communi cative Disorders and Stroke) conducted a Workshop on the Research Status of Spinal Manipulative Therapy....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Historical photograph of spinal anaesthesia In 1884 the American neurologist J. L. eases. His discovery, however, marks the Corning, by blocking the neural con onset of the era of regional anaesthesia. It took almost one hundred years until his duction to the hind extremities of a dog by injecting...
Spinal Cord Disease
Basic Science, Diagnosis and Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Spinal Cord Injury or disease can happen to anyone at any time and the effects can be devastating. I found this out personally when I was thrown from the back of a pick up truck at age 15 was left paralyzed from the waist down. It was during my recuperation as a young teenager that I first gained...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From recent developments in the rapidly growing area of neuroscience it has become increasingly clear that a simplistic description of brain function as a broad collection of simple input-output relations is quite inadequate. Introspection already tells us that our motor behavior is guided by a complex...
Neuroendocrinological Aspects of Neurosurgery
Proceedings of the Third Advanced Seminar in Neurosurgical Research Venice, April 30–May 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Third Advanced Seminar in Neurosurgical Research was held in the Palazzo Pisani Moretta, Venice, Italy from 30th April to 1st May, 1987 and was devoted to "Neuroendocrinological Aspects of Neurosurgery". The general aim of these advanced seminars is to bring together European Neurosurgeons...
Minimally Invasive Techniques for Neurosurgery
Current Status and Future Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A summary of all facets of this new and rapidly developing field in neurosurgery. Besides neuroendoscopy, the books main topics are neuronavigation, functional neurosurgery, radiosurgery, neurotransplantation, and molecular neurosurgery. Provides a thorough overview of the state of the art and future perspectives in minimally invasive neurosurgery.
Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability Changes after Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: An Update
Clinical Implications, Experimental Findings, Challenges and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Treatment of Cerebral Infarction
Experimental and Clinical Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is a great honor and pleasure for cerebral infarction have been carried me to have Springer-Verlag publish out. Dr. Yoshimoto hoped that the this volume entitled "Treatment of results of research done in our depart Cerebral Infarction". I am much in ment over the last sixteen years...
Acute Aneurysm Surgery
Pathophysiology and Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
During recent years, major advances in surgical techniques, diagnostic methods, anesthesia and adjunctive treatment in the care of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage have been achieved. Nevertheless, the overall outcome of patients with SAH cannot be regarded as satisfactory. The first part of...
Neurochemical Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit
Microdialysis, Jugular Venous Oximetry, and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Neurochemical Monitoring in the ICU held concurrently with the 5th Biannual Conference of the Japanese Study Group of Cerebral V
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Neurophysiological recording is the major neuromonitoring technique employed in ICU. In addition, continuous recording of intracranial pressure has proved to provide infomation useful for critical care of the patient with severe brain damage. It is, however, difficult to assess neurochemical and/or metabolic...
by Werner Hassler
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Up to date, the treatment of arteriovenous racemose angiomas of the brain remains unsatisfactory. Intraoperative hemorrhages, post-embolizational or postoperative deficits depending on the site and size of the A VM as well as inoperability of rare angioma types have promoted the technical improvement...
by F.L. Jenkner
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
After a very brief introduction to neurophysiology of pain and the influence of weather on pain the selection of an optimal current by the author is presented. This optimal current applied via specially unequal electrodes on distinct sites gives pain reduction of a surprisingly high degree. If the...