Surgical Management for Aggressive Behavior
and Peng Li1 (1) West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China The etiology of human aggressive behavior has not been elucidated. In clinical practice, the definition of aggressive behavior…
NEUROLOGY
High-angular diffusion MRI in reward-based psychiatric disorders
(2.1) where S is the DW signal, S0 is the signal without any DW gradients (but otherwise identical imaging parameters), D is the apparent diffusion coefficient, and b is so-called…
Ablative Surgery for Depression
Fig. 8.1 Coronal T2-weighted MRI image of a patient who had TRMDD treated with BACI, the scan was performed within 72 h after BACI. Note the symmetrical position of the BACI lesions…
Stereotactic Neurosurgery for Drug Addiction
Fig. 14.1 The schematic diagram of lesion loci. a Group A (axial and coronal views). CC corpus callosum; Cd caudate nucleus ; GRe gyrus rectus; Ic internal capsule; LV lateral ventricle;…
Radiosurgery for Psychiatric Disorders
Fig. 19.1 Appearance of lesions in the internal capsule within 1 month and within 24 h after gamma capsulotomy . Right side lesion, 1 month old lesion was caused by 100 Gy, while the left…
Focused Ultrasound for the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
, Hyun Ho Jung1 and Jin Woo Chang1 (1) Department of Neurosurgery, Brain Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disabling neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by recurrent…
Ablative Surgery for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Fig. 10.1 Diagram of the brain through the midsagittal plane showing the locations of capsulotomy (cap), cingulotomy (c), and stria terminalis (ST) lesioning 10.3.1.1 Anterior Capsulotomy A lesion is created in…
Neuroimaging in Psychiatry
Fig. 3.1 Regions with hypermetabolism in anorexia nervosa patients and controls. The figures were depicted in neurological orientation. The gray-scale image was a T1 structural MRI that is representative of MNI…
Neurosurgery for the Treatment of Refractory Schizophrenia
, Wei Liu1, Shikun Zhan1, Qianqian Hao1, Dianyou Li1, Yixin Pan1, Yongchao Li2 and Guozhen Lin2 (1) Department of Functional Neurosurgery, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (2) Department of Psychiatry, Ruijin…
Deep Brain Stimulation in Aggressive Behavior
Patient 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Age at surgery, years 26 34 21 64 37 20 43 Etiology Idiopathic Perinatal toxoplasmosis Idiopathic Post-anoxia Post-traumatic Idiopathic Idiopathic Previous treatments…
