(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands It is now well known that the brain is electrically excitable. Physicians frequently make use of electromagnetic properties to…
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands After World War II, the centre of gravity in aphasiology research shifted from Europe to North America [1]. In…
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands Early anatomists failed to see order amidst the apparent chaos of the brain’s convolutions. It was only in the…
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands Functional neuroimaging techniques, first positron emission tomography (PET) and later functional MRI (fMRI), have revolutionized cognitive neuroscience. These tools…
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands In the late nineteenth century, the theory of localization was strongly supported by experimental evidence from both electrocortical stimulation…
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands Roughly a decade after Broca published his findings on the left frontal speech area, in 1874 Carl Wernicke (1848–1905)…
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands In 2009, Craig Bennett and his co-workers put a mature Atlantic salmon in an MRI scanner and showed it…
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands It has been known for ages that some form of spontaneous recovery usually follows a disabling injury. In the…
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands Wernicke proposed that knowledge of the outside world was conceptualized and that the necessary information that makes up these…
Fig. 11.1 Referred pain elicited by TrPs in the cervical muscles: (a) sternocleidomastoid, (b) splenius capitis, (c) semispinalis capitis, (d) suboccipital and (e) upper trapezius Myofascial TrP pain referral patterns…
