Operative Neuromodulation

An introduction to neural networks surgery, a field of neuromodulation which is based on advances in neural networks science and digitised brain imaging.- Pain.- Management of chronic severe pain: cerebral neuromodulatory and neuroablative approaches.- Extradural cortical stimulation for central pain.- Motor cortex stimulation for neuropathic pain.- Motor cortex stimulation for chronic non-malignant pain: current state and future prospects.- Stimulation of primary motor cortex for intractable deafferentation pain.- Cathodal, anodal or bifocal stimulation of the motor cortex in the management of chronic pain?.- Somatosensory cortex stimulation for deafferentation pain.- Localization of precentral gyrus in image-guided surgery for motor cortex stimulation.- Anatomical and physiological basis, clinical and surgical considerations, mechanisms underlying efficacy and future prospects of cortical stimulation for pain.- Chronic electrostimulation of the trigeminal ganglion in trigeminal neuropathy: current state and future prospects.- Neuromodulatory approaches to the treatment of trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias.- Deep brain stimulation for neuropathic pain.- Movement disorders.- Surgical considerations in movement disorders: deep brain stimulation, ablation and transplantation.- Deep brain stimulation and chemical neuromodulation: current use and perspectives for the future.- GDNF delivery for Parkinson’s disease.- Neuronal networks of the basal ganglia and the value of recording field potentials from them.- Technical aspects and considerations of deep brain stimulation surgery for movement disorders.- Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease.- Neuromodulation of prelemniscal radiations in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.- Deep brain stimulation for torsion dystonia.- Deep brain stimulation for treatment of cervical dystonia.- Subthalamic nucleus stimulation for primary dystonia and tardive dystonia.- DBS in Tourette syndrome: rationale, current status and future prospects.- Extradural cortical stimulation for movement disorders.- Motor cortex stimulation for Parkinson’s disease.- Stereotactic stimulation of the anterior lobe of the cerebellum in cerebral palsy from a suboccipital approach.- Epilepsy.- Electrical stimulation devices in the treatment of epilepsy.- Brain stimulation for epilepsy.- Clinical experience with vagus nerve stimulation and deep brain stimulation in epilepsy.- Vagus nerve stimulation: indications and limitations.- Vagus nerve stimulation for intractable epilepsy: outcome in two series combining 90 patients.- Electrical stimulation and gene-based neuromodulation for control of medically-refractory epilepsy.- Rationale, mechanisms of efficacy, anatomical targets and future prospects of electrical deep brain stimulation for epilepsy.- Anatomical and physiological basis and mechanism of action of neurostimulation for epilepsy.- The role of neuromodulation of the hippocampus in the treatment of intractable complex partial seizures of the temporal lobe.- Neurosurgical aspects of temporal deep brain stimulation for epilepsy.- Deep brain stimulation for treatment of the epilepsies: the centromedian thalamic target.- Anterior thalamic nucleus stimulation for epilepsy.- Cerebellar and thalamic stimulation treatment for epilepsy.- A novel closed-loop stimulation system in the control of focal, medically refractory epilepsy.- Psychiatric disorders.- Neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders: from the excision of brain tissue to the chronic electrical stimulation of neural networks.- Behavioural and physiological effects of electrical stimulation in the nucleus accumbens: a review.- Neuromodulation of the inferior thalamic peduncle for major depression and obsessive compulsive disorder.- Chronic high frequency stimulation of the posteromedial hypothalamus in facial pain syndromes and behaviour disorders.- Vagus nerve stimulation for depression: rationale, anatomical and physiological basis of efficacy and future prospects.- Hearing disorders.- Experimental and clinical aspects of the efferent auditory system.- Functional outcome of auditory implants in hearing loss.- Auditory brainstem implants: current state and future directions with special reference to the subtonsillar approach for implantation.- Auditory brainstem implants: past, present and future prospects.- Twenty-five years of auditory brainstem implants: perspectives.- Auditory cortex stimulation for tinnitus.- Visual disorders.- Implantable visual prostheses.- Restoring visual perception using microsystem technologies: engineering and manufacturing perspectives.- A neuroprosthesis for restoring sight.- Towards the bionic eye — the retina implant: surgical, opthalmological and histopathological perspectives.- Computational neuromodulation.- Motor cortex stimulation: role of computer modeling.- Computational models simulating electrophysiological activity in the basal ganglia.- Computational perspectives on neuromodulation of aging.- Emerging applications.- The periaqueductal grey area and the cardiovascular system.- Therapeutic potential of computer to cerebral cortex implantable devices.- Trimodal nanoelectrode array for precise deep brain stimulation: prospects of a new technology based on carbon nanofiber arrays.- Neural networks on chemically patterned electrode arrays: towards a cultured probe.- Brain-computer interface: a reciprocal self-regulated neuromodulation.- Cicerone: stereotactic neurophysiological recording and deep brain stimulation electrode placement software system.- StimExplorer: deep brain stimulation parameter selection software system.- Connections of the basal ganglia with the limbic system: implications for neuromodulation therapies of anxiety and affective disorders.