Advances in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 2 Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Madrid 1975. Advances in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

The cerebral pareses occurring in early childhood or produced subsequently by trauma or spontaneous cerebral haemorrhages, present a heterogenous symptomatic picture. In the forefront we find the spastic pareses associated with extrapyramidal motor hyperkinesia (athetosis, dystonia, ballism). 36 c.P.-patients were surveyed from 1-4 years after operative intervention. It is shown that better results can be obtained when multilocular lesions during a single session in correspondence with the dominant group of symptoms are performed (thalamic and subthalamic target points of the extrapyramidal motor nuclei and dentate nucleus). The results are presented. Continuous physical therapy after the operation and a reasonable intellectual level are essential for improvement. Front Matter....Pages I-VI Front Matter....Pages 2-2 Experiences of Stereotaxic Surgery on Cerebral Palsy Patients....Pages 3-10 Multilocular Lesions in the Therapy of Cerebral Palsy....Pages 11-14 Stereotactic Lesions of the Pulvinar for Hypertonus and Dyskinesias....Pages 15-20 Combined Transtentorial Dentatotomy With Pulvinarotomy in Cerebral Palsy....Pages 21-26 Neurosurgical Treatment of Spasticity and Dyskinesias....Pages 27-39 Long-Term Assessment of Stereotactic Dentatotomy for Spasticity and Other Disorders....Pages 41-48 Long-Term Review of Dentatectomy in Dystonia Musculorum Deformans and Cerebral Palsy....Pages 49-51 New Aspects in the Surgical Treatment of Cerebral Palsy....Pages 53-57 Chronic Cerebellar Stimulation in Spastic Choreo-Athetosis....Pages 59-63 Treatment of Spasmodic Torticollis With Dorsal Column Stimulation....Pages 65-66 Percutaneous Rhizotomy of the Articular Nerve of Luschka for Low Back and Sciatic Pain....Pages 67-71 Stereotactic Surgery in Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome....Pages 73-73 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 Tomography in Stereotaxis. A New Stereoencephalotome Designed for this Purpose....Pages 77-83 Computerized Graphic Display of Results of Subcortical Stimulation During Stereotactic Surgery....Pages 85-98 A Computer Programme System for Stereotactic Neurosurgery....Pages 99-108 Electrophysiological Set-Up for Data Acquisition and Processing During Stereotaxic Surgery: Demonstration on Pulvinar Units....Pages 109-119 Estimation of the Neural Noise Within the Human Thalamus....Pages 121-136 Technical Factors in Stereotaxic Hypophysectomy....Pages 137-138 Structural, Ultrastructural and Functional Reactions of the Brain After Implanting Yttrium 90 Rods Used in Stereotactic Neurosurgery....Pages 139-147 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 The Study of Recovery and Modification of the Evoked Potentials and Motor Answers in the Motor System....Pages 151-157 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Modification of Thalamic Evoked Activity by Dorsal Column Stimulation....Pages 159-161 Auditory Evoked Potentials Recorded From Chronic Implanted Gyrus of Heschl in Man....Pages 163-173 The Effect of Graded Thermocoagulation on Trigeminal Evoked Potentials in the Cat....Pages 175-178 Functional Exploration of the Spinomedullary Junction....Pages 179-185 Role of the Amygdala and Hypothalamus in the Control of Gastric Secretion in Human Beings....Pages 187-190 The Effects of Drugs on the Field Potential in the Caudate Nucleus Following Nigra Stimulation....Pages 191-198 The Relationship of Hallucinations to the Depth Structures of the Temporal Lobe....Pages 199-216 Front Matter....Pages 217-217 Observation of Kindling Phenomenon in Treatment of the Pain by Means of Stimulation in Thalamus....Pages 219-219 Electroanalgesia: Stimulation at Different Levels of the Nervous System....Pages 221-221 Anterior Pulvinotomy in the Treatment of Intractable Pain....Pages 223-225 Paraqueductal Mesencephalotomy for Facial Central Pain....Pages 227-227 Late Results of Central Stereotactic Interventions for Pain....Pages 229-229 Stereotactic Cryothalamotomy for Pain....Pages 231-231 Limbic Target Surgery in the Treatment of Intractable Pain With Drug Addiction....Pages 233-233 Advantage and Limits of Intracerebral Pain Stereotaxy....Pages 235-235