Chapter 1. Essential Tremor
Kelly Layton, Jonathan Riley, Richard Schmidt, Christian Hoelscher, and Chengyuan Wu
Chapter 2. Thalamotomy
Ashwin Viswanathan
Chapter 3. Deep Brain Stimulation for Non-Tremor Predominant Parkinson's Disease
Thomas Ostergard and Jonathan P. Miller
Chapter 4. Tremor Dominant Parkinson's Disease
Stephanie Zyck and Gaddum Duemani Reddy
Chapter 5. Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Patrick Karas and Ashwin Viswanathan
Chapter 6. Hypothalamic Hamartoma Causing Gelastic Seizure
Nisha Giridharan, Patrick J. Karas, and Daniel J. Curry
Chapter 7. Hippocampal Sclerosis
Zoe E. Teton and Ahmed M. Raslan
Chapter 8. Neocortical Epilepsy
Zoe E. Teton and Ahmed M. Raslan
Chapter 9. Bitemporal Focus Epilepsy
Allen L. Ho and Casey H. Halpern
Chapter 10. Cortical Dysplasia with Medically Refractory Epilepsy
Nathan R. Selden
Chapter 11. Corpus Callosotomy
Nathan R. Selden
Chapter 12. Genetic Epilepsy
Nathan R. Selden
Chapter 13. Focal Spasticity of Upper and Lower limbs
Walid A. Abdel Ghany and Mohamed A. Nada
Chapter 14. Intractable Spinal Spastic Paraplegia
Michael Kinsman, Kyle Smith, and Mairaj Sami
Chapter 15. Dystonia
Zoe E. Teton and Ahmed M. Raslan
"Series Editor's Preface Dear Reader, I am delighted to introduce this volume of Neurosurgery by Example: Key Cases and Fundamental Principles. Neurosurgical training and practice are based on managing a wide range of complex clinical cases with expert knowledge, sound judgment, and skilled technical execution. Our goal in this series is to present exemplary cases in the manner they are actually encountered in the neurosurgical clinic, hospital emergency department, and operating room. In this volume, Drs. Ahmed Raslan and Ashwin Viswanathan invited a broad range of expert contributors to share their extensive wisdom and experience in all major areas of functional neurosurgery. Each chapter contains a classic presentation of an important clinical entity, guiding readers through the assessment and planning, decision making, surgical procedure, after care, and complication management. 'Pivot points' illuminate the changes required to manage patients in alternate or atypical situations. Each chapter also presents lists of pearls for the accurate diagnosis, successful treatment, and effective complication management of each clinical problem.....
