Neurorehabilitation together with functional neurosurgery are steadily growing fields, with new advances and technologies including: selective interruption of various neural circuits, stimulation of the cerebral cortex, deep brain structures, spinal cord and peripheral nerves with implantable stimulation systems, and cell transplantation as well as nerve grafting. Recent advances in neuroimaging techniques have also begun to demonstrate the involvement of extensive functional and structural reorganization of neural networks within the brain. In order to encapsulate such concepts, the fourth official scientific meeting of the Neurorehabilitation and Reconstructive Neurosurgery Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) was held in Seoul. This volume is the fourth in a new series of proceedings covering the most important advancements in this field.

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Neurorehabilitation.- Early rehabilitation of higher cortical brain functioning in neurosurgery, humanizing the restoration of human skills after acute brain lesions.- Involuntary movement disorders.- Deep brain stimulation as a functional scalpel.- Feed-forward control of post-stroke movement disorders by on-demand type stimulation of the thalamus and motor cortex.- Pallidal high-frequency deep brain stimulation for camptocormia: an experience of three cases.- Multimodal neurosurgical strategies for the management of dystonias.- Detection of boundaries of subthalamic nucleus by multiple-cell spike density analysis in deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease.- Microelectrode recording: lead point in STN-DBS surgery.- Follow-up of bilateral subthalamic deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease.- Rapid subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation lead placement utilising CT/MRI fusion, microelectrode recording and test stimulation.- FDG-PET study of the bilateral subthalamic nucleus stimulation effects on the regional cerebral metabolism in advanced Parkinson disease.- Pain control.- Stimulation of primary motor cortex for intractable deafferentation pain.- Fifteen year experience of intrathecal baclofen treatment in Japan.- Electrical stimulation of the anterior cingulate cortex in a rat neuropathic pain model.- Long term follow-up results of dorsal root entry zone lesions for intractable pain after brachial plexus avulsion injuries.- Endogenous and exogenous modulators of potentials evoked by a painful cutaneous laser (LEPs).- Long term results from percutaneous radiofrequency neurotomy on posterior primary ramus in patients with chronic low back pain.- Epilepsy.- Chronic deep brain stimulation of subthalamic and anterior thalamic nuclei for controllingrefractory partial epilepsy.- Vagus nerve stimulation in pediatric intractable epilepsy: a Korean bicentric study.- Seizure control of Gamma Knife radiosurgery for non-hemorrhagic arteriovenous malformations.- Surgical resection of cavernous angiomas located in eloquent areas clinical research.- Spinal cord.- Spinal cord stimulation and cerebral haemodynamics.- Idiopathic syringomyelia: case report and review of the literature.- Cell transplantation and nerve grafting.- Migration of bone marrow stem cells in ischaemic brain.- The behavioral effect of human mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in cold brain injured rats.- Effect of human mesenchymal stem cell transplantation combined with growth factor infusion in the repair of injured spinal cord.- Stem cell therapy in stroke: strategies in basic study and clinical application.- Neural prosthesis in the wake of nanotechnology: controlled growth of neurons using surface nanostructures.- A new and simple transection knife for study of neurodegeneration and neuroregeneration in animal model.