CHAPTER 58 Auditory Language Mapping Zachary Wright, Guy M. McKhann, II As described in Chapter 57, electrical stimulation mapping of language cortex is a useful adjunct for a variety of…

CHAPTER 153 Pain General Historical Considerations Andrew C. Zacest, Kim J. Burchiel Pain, originating from the Greek poine, which means penalty or punishment, has been described since the dawn of…

CHAPTER 35 Shunting* Marvin Bergsneider, Eric Stiner Hydrocephalus is a commonly encountered disorder that occurs either as a primary condition or as the sequela to an intracranial hemorrhage, a space-occupying…

CHAPTER 103 Invasion in Malignant Glioma Ian Lee, Mark L. Rosenblum There is little question that the infiltrative behavior of malignant gliomas in the brain is one of the primary…

CHAPTER 81 Subthalamotomy in Parkinson’s Disease Indications and Outcome Jorge Guridi, Lázaro Alvarez, Raul Macías, José A. Obeso The subthalamic nucleus (STN) is currently the target of choice for the…

CHAPTER 78 Surgical Management of Tremor Kazutaka Kobayashi, Jong Hyun Kim, William S. Anderson, Frederick A. Lenz This chapter briefly outlines the treatment of tremor by stereotactic neurosurgical techniques. Both…

CHAPTER 181 Genetics of Craniosynostosis Dan Drzymalski, Mark Proctor Craniosynostosis, or the premature fusion of calvarial sutures, occurs in approximately 1 in 2500 live births1 and has traditionally been classified…

CHAPTER 64 Tailored Resections for Epilepsy David W. Roberts Although the first operations performed for the treatment of medically intractable epilepsy were obviously directed by the specific findings in individual…

CHAPTER 43 Brain Abscess Allan R. Tunkel, W. Michael Scheld Brain abscess is defined as a focal intracranial infection that is initiated as an area of cerebritis and evolves into…

CHAPTER 164 Neurosurgical Management of Intractable Pain Kenneth A. Follett, Richard B. North Neurosurgeons have a long history of accomplishments in the field of pain management, and neurosurgery, as a…