Surgical Treatment of Parkinsons Disease and Other Movement Disorders [Hardcover]

I Rationale for Surgical Therapy.- 1 Physiology of the Basal Ganglia and Pathophysiology of Movement Disorders.- 2 Basal Ganglia Circuitry and Synaptic Connectivity.- 3 Surgical Treatment of Parkinsons Disease: Past, Present, and Future.- II Surgical Therapy for Parkinsons Disease and Tremor.- 4 Patient Selection for Movement Disorders Surgery.- 5 Methods of Patient Assessment in Surgical Therapy for Movement Disorders.- 6 Target Localization in Movement Disorders Surgery.- 7 Thalamotomy for Tremor.- 8 Pallidotomy for Parkinsons Disease.- 9 Bilateral Pallidotomy in Parkinsons Disease: Costs and Benefits.- 10 Subthalamotomy for Parkinsons Disease.- 11 Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinsons Disease and Essential Tremor.- 12 Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinsons Disease.- 13 Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinsons Disease.- 14 Methods of Programming and Patient Management with Deep Brain Stimulation.- 15 The Role of Neuropsychological Evaluation in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Movement Disorders.- 16 Surgical Treatment of Secondary Tremor.- III Surgical Therapy for Dystonia.- 17 Thalamotomy for Dystonia.- 18 Pallidotomy and Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation for Dystonia.- 19 Surgical Treatment of Spasmodic Torticollis by Peripheral Denervation.- 20 Intrathecal Baclofen for Dystonia and Related Motor Disorders.- IV Miscellaneous.- 21 Positron Emission Tomography in Surgery for Movement Disorders.- 22 Fetal Tissue Transplantation for the Treatment of Parkinsons Disease.- 23 Future Surgical Therapies in Parkinsons Disease. This is an excellent resource for neurologists, neurosurgeons, and other practitioners who work in the field of movement disorders. Written and edited by experts in the field, the book provides concise but comprehensive reviews of the current thought on patient selection, surgical techniques, and even postoperative management of these complicated patients. -Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal