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Neurosurgical Re-Engineering of the Damaged Brain and Spinal Cord

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2003

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Part of the book series: Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement (NEUROCHIRURGICA, volume 87)

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Table of contents (36 papers)

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

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

  3. Current concepts and strategies of early neurorehabilitation

  4. Functional imaging in neurosurgery and neurorehabilitation

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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Y. Katayama

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neurosurgical Re-Engineering of the Damaged Brain and Spinal Cord

  • Editors: Y. Katayama

  • Series Title: Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6081-7

  • Publisher: Springer Vienna

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag/Wien 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-211-00920-8Published: 28 August 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-6081-7Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0065-1419

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-8395

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 186

  • Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Neurosurgery, Neurosciences, Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation Medicine

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