Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery [Paperback]

A. Advances.- Disorders of Consciousness: Anatomical and Physiological Mechanisms.- Abstract.- The Wake-Sleep Cycle.- Phenomenology.- Regulation.- Wakefulness Network.- The Posterior Hypothalamus.- Histamine Network.- Orexin/Hypocretin Network.- Brainstem Acetylcholine and Amine Networks.- The Serotonin System.- Tentative Functions of the Wake System.- Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive Performances.- References.- Advances in Craniosynostosis Research and Management.- Abstract.- Normal Craniofacial Embryology and Growth.- Aetiology, Pathogenesis and Function.- Classification and Diagnosis.- Evolution of Surgical Treatment.- Recent Advances.- Molecular Studies.- Imaging Techniques and Surgical Planning.- Resorbable Fixation.- Bone Substitutes and Tissue Engineering.- Distraction Osteogenesis and the Spring-Mediated Cranioplasties.- Resorbable Distractor Devices.- Minimally Invasive Surgery.- In Utero Surgery.- Surgical Techniques.- Sagittal Synostosis.- Unicoronal Synostosis.- Metopic Synostosis.- Unilambdoid Synostosis.- Bicoronal Synostosis.- Saethre-Chotzen Syndrome.- Crouzon and Pfeiffer Syndromes.- Apert Syndrome.- References.- B. Technical Standards.- Preoperative Clinical Evaluation, Outline of Surgical Technique and Outcome in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.- Abstract.- Epidemiology of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE).- Etiology and Pathology of TLE.- Temporal Lobe Seizure Symptomatology.- Mesial TLE.- Neocortical TLE.- Selection of Candidates for Preoperative Assessment.- Neuropsychological Evaluation in TLE.- WADA Test.- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in TLE.- Volumetry.- NMR-Spectroscopy.- Lesions in MRI.- Functional MRI.- EEG-Videotelemetry in TLE.- Interictal EEG.- Diagnostic EEG-Videotelemetry.- Intracranial EEG-Monitoring in TLE.- Indications for Intracranial EEG.- Intracranial EEG-Recording in Videotelemetry.- Surgical Technique for Inserting the Electrodes.- Complications of Invasive EEG-Monitoring.- Functional Imaging in TLE.- Positron Emission Tomograplók