Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become the major growth area for the treatment of severe Parkinson's disease, tremors and dystonia over the past 10 years.More recently, interest has begun to focus on the clinical use of DBS for thetreatment of psychiatric disorders, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorders and depression. The increasing therapeutic use of DBS has created opportunities to study the pathophysiology of these diseases, by allowing intracerebralrecordings to be made from patients and permitting electrical stimulation of various regions within the brain to be undertaken. This handbook provides an overview of the use of DBS for the treatment of movement disorders as well as an introduction to the developing area of DBS for the management of psychiatricdisease. The first part of the book covers the varying surgical techniques involved in implanting electrodes into various deep nuclei within the brain, including the neurophysiological techniques involved in this process and the complex issue of programming the implanted stimulator in order to optimise therapeutic efficacy and minimise stimulation-induced adverse effects. The second part of the book describes how to select appropriate patients for DBS and describes the results of DBS treatment for Parkinson's disease, dystonia and various tremors, as well as psychiatric conditions. The book is intended to introduce neurologists, trainee neurologists and movement disorder specialists to the topic of DBS and will also prove valuable to nurses specializing in the management of Parkinson's disease and/or movement disorders. The book will also serve as a practical reference for psychiatrists interested in modern psychosurgery and scientists with an interest in DBS, the electrode-brain interface and the pathophysiology and neural circuitry of Parkinson's disease, tremor and dystonia. ÍNDICE: PART 1 - SURGICAL TECHNIQUES; 1. Subthalamic nucleus stimulation; 2. Globus pallidus stimulation; 3. Thalamic stimulation; 4. Zona incerta and Pediculopontine stimulation; PART 2 - OPERATIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES AND POST-OPERATIVE STIMULATOR PROGRAMMING; 5. Microelectrode recording; 6. Macroelectrode recording; 7. Test stimulation; 8. DBS stimulator programming; PART 3 - DBS FOR MOVEMENT DISORDERS; 9. Selecting appropriate Parkinson's patients for DBS; 10. The long term results of STN stimulation; 11. The long term results of GPi stimulation; 12. Post-STN DBS Parkinson's disease; 13. Selecting appropriate dystonic patient for GPi stimulation; 14. The results of GPi stimulation for generalized dystonia; 15. The results of GPi stimulation for focal dystonia; 16. Selecting appropriate tremor patients for DBS; 17. The results of DBS for tremor; PART 4 - DBS FOR PSYCHIATRIC CONDITIONS; 18. DBS for Gilles de la Tourette syndrome; 19. DBS for obsessive compulsive disorder; 20. Cingulate area 25 DBS for depression; PART 5 - MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF DBS; 21. Modellingapproaches to DBS; 22. Appendix: Useful links
- ISBN: 978-0-19-954371-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 232
- Fecha Publicación: 05/03/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés