There has been a resurgence in stereotactic surgery for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, tremor, and dystonia, and with it a growing need for up-to-date information about these procedures. In Surgical Treatment of Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders, a panel of highly experienced neurosurgeons, neurophysiologists, neuropsychologists, and neuroanatomists join forces to create an integrated, cutting-edge survey of all the methodologies necessary for successful surgical treatment. On the surgical side they review a variety of techniques for Parkinson's disease, including thalamotomy, pallidotomy and bilateral pallidotomy, subthalamotomy, pallidal and thalamic deep brain stimulation, and subthalamic deep brain stimulation. Surgical therapy for tremor and dystonia is also covered. On the patient side, the authors systematically examine the key issues involved in patient selection, patient assessment before and after surgery, brain target localization, and postoperative programming of brain stimulators.
Comprehensive and authoritative, Surgical Treatment of Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders integrates the diverse techniques now available in this rapidly growing field to provide a practical guide to effective treatment of patients afflicted with these disorders.

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A panel of highly experienced neurosurgeons, neurophysiologists, neuropsychologists, and neuroanatomists join forces to create an integrated, cutting-edge survey all of the methodologies necessary for successful surgical treatment. On the surgical side they review a variety of techniques for Parkinson's disease, including thalamotomy, pallidotomy and bilateral pallidotomy, subthalamotomy, pallidal and thalamic deep brain stimulation, and subthalmic deep brain stimulation. Surgical therapy for tremor and dystonia is also covered. On the patient side, the authors systematically examine the key issues involved in any surgical procedure: Patient selection, patient assessment before and after surgery, brain target localization, and postoperative programming of brain stimulators.

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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 Parkinson's Disease: Past, Present, and Future.- II Surgical Therapy for Parkinson's 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 Parkinson's Disease.- 9 Bilateral Pallidotomy in Parkinson's Disease: Costs and Benefits.- 10 Subthalamotomy for Parkinson's Disease.- 11 Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease and Essential Tremor.- 12 Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease.- 13 Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's 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 Parkinson's Disease.- 23 Future Surgical Therapies in Parkinson's Disease.