Neurostimulation. Principles and Practice

Description

Could neurostimulation be a management option for your patients?

Neurostimulation techniques present real management options for patients with a range of neurologic and psychiatric disorders, such as movement disorders, pain, and depression. They should be actively considered when conventional medical approaches have failed or are inappropriate. But for many clinicians, these new methods pose many questions. What are the available modalities? How do they work? Which patients might benefit from them? How do I explain the processes to patients? How do I monitor my patient’s progress after implantation?

Neurostimulation: Principles and Practice provides a concise, easy-to-read fusion of the clinical applications of implanted neurostimulators. It demystifies selection and referral criteria, maximizing therapy, programming the implanted neuromodulators, monitoring progress, and troubleshooting problems associated with neurostimulation.

Neurostimulation: Principles and Practice covers the modalities available for your patients:

• Deep brain stimulation
• Motor cortex stimulation
• Vagus nerve stimulation
• Spinal cord stimulation
• Peripheral nerve stimulation

Written by an international cast of experts, Neurostimulation: Principles and Practice sets the stage for you to provide real clinical benefit to your patients who might receive, or are already using, neurostimulators.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Part 1 Deep Brain Stimulation

• 1 Deep Brain Stimulation: Mechanisms of Action
  Erwin B. Montgomery Jr.
• 2 Overview of Deep Brain Stimulation Components
  Sam Eljamel
• 3 Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease: Subthalamic Nucleus
  Manish Ranjan and Christopher R. Honey
• 4 Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease: Pallidal (globus pallidus pars interna)
  Yasuaki Harasaki and Steven Ojemann
• 5 Deep Brain Stimulation of the Pedunculopontine Nucleus for Parkinson’s Disease
  Aviva Abosch and Amit Goyal
• 6 Deep Brain Stimulation in Tremor
  Antonios Mammis and Michael Schulder
• 7 Deep Brain Stimulation in Dystonia
  Ludvic Zrinzo
• 8 Deep Brain Stimulation in Epilepsy
  Michael G. Kaplitt
• 9 Deep Brain Stimulation in Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
  David Christmas and Loes Gabriëls
• 10 Deep Brain Stimulation in Treatment of Refractory Major Depression
  Clement Hamani and Paul E. Holtzheimer
• 11 Deep Brain Stimulation in Pain Syndromes
  Alexander Green
• 12 Deep Brain Stimulation in Cluster Headache
  Giovanni Broggi, Giuseppe Messina, and Angelo Franzini

Part 2 Vagus Nerve Stimulation

• 13 Mechanism of Action and Overview of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Technology
  Sam Eljamel
• 14 Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Epilepsy
  Ian Morrison
• 15 Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Treatment of Refractory Major Depression
  Christine Matthews, Serenella Tolomeo, and Keith Matthews

Part 3 Motor Cortex Stimulation

• 16 Mechanism of Action and Overview of Motor Cortex Stimulation Components
  Sam Eljamel
• 17 Motor Cortex Stimulation in Refractory Pain
  Giovanni Broggi, Giuseppe Messina, Roberto Cordella, and Angelo Franzini

Part 4 Spinal Cord Stimulation

• 18 Mechanism of Action and Overview of Spinal Cord Stimulation Components
  Sam Eljamel
• 19 Spinal Cord Stimulation in Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
  Gail Gillespie and Pravin Dandegaonkar
• 20 Spinal Cord Stimulation in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
  Eduardo Goellner and Konstantin V. Slavin
• 21 Spinal Cord Stimulation in Other Indications
  Konstantin V. Slavin and Sam Eljamel

Part 5 Peripheral Nerve Stimulation

• 22 Peripheral Nerve Stimulation in Head and Face Pain
  Konstantin V. Slavin, Serge Y. Rasskazoff, and Sami Al-Nafi
• 23 Peripheral Nerve Stimulation in Pain of the Body and Extremities
  Konstantin V. Slavin, Sami Al-Nafi , and Serge Y. Rasskazoff

Appendices

Appendix I: Principles of Programming of Neurostimulators
Sam Eljamel, Patrick Carena, and Catherine Young

Appendix II: Troubleshooting Malfunctioning Neurostimulators
Sam Eljamel

Index

Author Information

Sam Eljamel, MBBCh, MD, FRCSEd, FRCSIr, FRCS(SN), Department of Neurosurgery, Ninewells Hospital and Dundee Medical School, Dundee, UK

Konstantin Slavin, MD, FAANS, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA