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The management of pain is a complex process. This can be helped by understanding the mechanisms of pain, both neurophysiological and bio-social. When pain occurs in the absence of a diagnosis that would define a specific treatment resulting in cure and relief of the symptoms, then the focus necessarily falls on the pain itself. Management of this may include local treatments, such as nerve blockade,...
Evaluation of patients being considered for epilepsy surgery is based on a multidisciplinary approach, with access to neuroimaging, neurophysiology (both invasive and noninvasive), neuropsychology and functional imaging, in addition to careful clinical assessment. Surgical interventions aim to either resect a structural abnormality or to modify brain function so as to improve the control of the patient’s...
In this chapter, the authors will provide an overview of movement disorders. It will begin with a review of nomenclature used to describe movement disorders, followed by a discussion of the basal ganglia circuitry. Neurosurgical treatment options for individual movement disorder syndromes will then be addressed.
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