(1) Department of Neurology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA Abstract This chapter explores processes for establishing diagnosis and guiding treatment in a dependable manner. It…
(1) Department of Neurology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA Abstract Reliance industries limited (RIL) owns and operates the world’s largest Greenfield oil refinery complex in…
(1) Department of Neurology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA Abstract This chapter extends the principles of failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) introduced in Chap….
Fig. 5.1 Extrel type DBS system. (a) External transmitter (model 3523). (b) Antenna. (c) Receiver (model 3360). (d) Stimulation electrode (Reprinted with the permission of Medtronic, Inc. © 1991) Fig….
Primary dystonia Typically early-onset: generalized DYT1 generalized dystonia Non-DYT1 generalized dystonia Paroxysmal dystonia and dyskinesias Dopa-responsive dystonia Myoclonic dystonia Rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism Typically adult-onset: focal Blephalospasm Cervical dystonia Writer’s…
Fig. 8.1 Schematic diagram of the basal ganglia–thalamocortical circuitry under normal conditions (a) and in Parkinson’s disease (b). In Parkinson’s disease, decreased excitatory inputs from the substantia nigra compacta (SNc)…
Fig. 12.1 (a) (surface histogram) The depression of RIII (“nociceptive”) flexion reflexes induced by SCS in a 35-year-old woman with electrodes at T10 level. Each trace is the rectified average…
(1) Department of Motor Neuroscience and Neurotherapeutics, Institute of Health Bioscience, Graduate School of Medical Science, University of Tokushima, Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan Ryoma Morigaki Email: sgoto@clin.med.tokushima-u.ac.jp 11.1…
Fig. 9.1 Microelectrode recording of Vim and electromyogram of tremor in 60-year-old male with tremor-dominant Parkinson’s disease. (a) Schematic presentation of trajectory to Vim in Schaltenbrand–Wahren atlas (1977) at 12…
Fig. 4.1 Electrodes used for microelectrode recording (MER). (a) MER performed using the electrode tip (arrowhead) as the recording electrode and the tip of the outer sheath (arrow) as the…
