The subject of the apallic syndrome is one which has long been familiar to me, although I have not personally studied it as deeply as I would have wished.
When I was asked by the Cancer Teaching Committee of the University of Chicago to set up a Symposium on Brain Tumors, I welcomed the opportunity to do so.
Die traumatischen Schäden von Gehirn und Rückenmark werden in den drei aufeinanderfolgenden Bänden (Band 13/VI A bis C der Speziellen Pathologischen Anatomie) umfassend behandelt.
Advances in Neurosurgery presents the experience and research results of modern neurosurgeons confronted with urgent diagnostic and therapeutic problems.
The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for information, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
The pioneering work by Pierre Janny and Nils Lundberg added a new tool to the investigative armamentarium of the neurosurgeon: continuous monitor- ing of intracranial pressure (ICP).
In 1957 Otto SCHAUMANN, one of the pionieers in pharmacological research on morphine and the first to prepare synthetic opiates, presented a mono- graph entitled "e;Morphin und morphiniihnliche Verbindungen"e; as Volume 12 of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology.
Die hochdosierte intravenöse Stoßtherapie mit Kortikoiden wird seit etwa 15 Jahren in der Inneren Medizin und seit 10 bis 12 Jahren bei verschiedenen neurologischen Krankheitsbildern eingesetzt, wobei zwischenzeitlich umfangreiche Erfahrungen bei der Behandlung von multiple Sklerose-Patienten gewonnen wurden.
It has been well recognized that following an ischemicinsult many nerve cells of the brain are not killedoutright, but may suffer a "e;delayed neuronal death"e; or evenrecover.