Deep brain stimulation and epilepsy
By: edited by Hans O. Lüders.
Contributors: Lüders, Hans.
Publisher: Martin Dunitz; Distributed in the USA by Fullfilment Center, Taylor & Francis
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York; Independence, KY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Epilepsy -- therapy; Brain -- physiology; Electric Stimulation Therapy -- methods; Electrophysiology -- methods; Evoked Potentials -- physiology
Description: Deep brian stimulation has been used effectively for many years in patients suffering from Parkinson's disease. Now, we are seeing neurologists and neurosurgeons using electric pulse generators (that can be compared in one sense to the cardiac pacemaker) to block abnormal activity. With promising research results that show how electric pulses implanted deep in the brain can affect neurocircuitry and help stop oncoming seizures, the authors of this book have summarized all of the available literature in one volume. It should provide the epileptologist and neurosurgeon with a solid background in deep brain stimulation and its application to epilepsy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.