Neurosurgical Re-Engineering of the Damaged Brain and Spinal Cord

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Prolonged coma, minimally conscious state and persistent vegetative state

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Control of sleep and wakefulness by brainstem monoaminergic and cholinergic neurons

      • Yukihiko Kayama, Y. Koyama

      Pages 3-6

   3. Electrical treatment of coma via the median nerve

      • Edwin B. Cooper, J. B. Cooper

      Pages 7-10

   4. Regaining consciousness for prolonged comatose patients with right median nerve stimulation

      • Jung-Tung Liu, C. H. Wang, I. C. Chou, S. S. Sun, C. H. Koa, E. Cooper

      Pages 11-14

   5. DBS therapy for a persistent vegetative state: ten years follow-up results

      • Takamitsu Yamamoto, Y. Katayama, K. Kobayashi, M. Kasai, H. Oshima, C. Fukaya

      Pages 15-18

   6. Clinical study on effect of HBO plus electric stimulation on treatment for the vegetative state

      • Kangmin Xie, P. Wang

      Pages 19-21

   7. Effects of musicokinetic therapy and spinal cord stimulation on patients in a persistent vegetative state

      • R. Noda, Y. Maeda, Atsuo Yoshino

      Pages 23-26

3. Clinical application of the drug pump for spasticity, pain and restorative neurosurgery

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Intrathecal drug delivery 2002

      • Michael S. Turner

      Pages 29-35

   3. Clinical application of drug pump for spasticity, pain, and restorative neurosurgery: other clinical applications of intrathecal baclofen

      • Takaomi Taira, T. Hori

      Pages 37-38

   4. Intrathecal baclofen therapy; patient selection & team approach

      • Akinobu Nemoto

      Pages 39-40

4. Current concepts and strategies of early neurorehabilitation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. New development of functional neurorehabilitation in neurosurgery

      • Klaus R. H. von Wild

      Pages 43-47

   3. Successful treatment by spinal cord stimulation for gait disturbance in a patient with diffuse axonal injury

      • Yoshifumi Hirata, M. Murakami, Y. Ushio

      Pages 49-52

   4. Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) for spinal cord injury

      • Isao Okuma, J. Hayashi, T. Kaito, M. Funahashi, S. Kuno, Y. Kato et al.

      Pages 53-55

5. Functional imaging in neurosurgery and neurorehabilitation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. BOLD functional MRI may overlook activation areas in the damaged brain

      • Kaoru Sakatani, Y. Murata, C. Fukaya, T. Yamamoto, Y. Katayama

      Pages 59-62

   3. Acetazolamide vasoreactivity in persistent vegetative state and vascular dementia evaluated by transcranial harmonic perfusion imaging and Doppler sonography

      • Toshiyuki Shiogai, M. Koshimura, C. Uebo, M. Makino, T. Mizuno, K. Nakajima

      Pages 63-69

   4. Impairment of motor function after frontal lobe resection with preservation of the primary motor cortex

      • Chikashi Fukaya, Y. Katayama, K. Kobayashi, M. Kasai, H. Oshima, T. Yamamoto

      Pages 71-74

This volume is the second in a new series of pro­ The task carried out through the collaboration of ceedings covering the official scientific meetings of the neurosurgeons and specialists in neurorehabilitation Neurorehabilitation Committee of the World Federa­ cannot be viewed simply as a restoration of function or tion of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS). The first reconstruction of structure. Recent advances in neu­ scientific meeting of the WFNS Neurorehabilitation roimaging techniques have begun to demonstrate that Committee was held successfully in Munster, Ger­ it involves extensive functional and structural reorga­ many, in 2000 under the auspices of Professor Klaus nization of neural networks within the brain and R. H. von Wild. The proceedings of that meeting probably the spinal cord. On this basis, we felt that it (Functional Rehabilitation in Neurosurgery and Neu­ might be more appropriate to refer to such activities as rotraumatology) were published as a supplement to re-engineering of the damaged brain and spinal cord. Acta Neurochirurgica (volume 79, 2001). This first In order to encapsulate such a concept, the second scientific meeting highlighted the important role scientific meeting was entitled the Second Interna­ played by neurosurgeons in neurorehabilitation be­ tional Symposium on Neurosurgical Re-engineering of at an early period after brain or spinal cord the Damaged Brain and Spinal Cord (NRDBS'02). ginning damage.

• Nervous System
• Neurorehabilitation
• Parkinson
• brainstem
• neurons
• neurosurgery
• rehabilitation
• rehabilitation psychology

• Department of Neurological Surgery, Nihon University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

  Y. Katayama

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