Neurology and clinical neurophysiology

In Neuroorthopädie Band 4 werden die Erkrankungen des zervikookzipitalen Übergangs mit Beteiligung des Nervensystems in Diagnostik und Therapie, zumal deren operative Behandlung, diskutiert.

Increasing specialisation in pathology reflects the progressive changes in medical practise.

From the 12th to the 15th September 1985 the International Symposium on Methods of Presurgical Evaluation of Epileptic Patients: Basics, Techniques, and Implications for Epileptology and Surgical Epilepsy Therapy was held in Zurich.

The present volume is the results of 6 years' work by our team, during which time 2300 CT scans of the pituitary region were carried out.

In allen klinischen Disziplinen der Medizin werden Benzodiazepine therapeutisch eingesetzt.

The following papers were presented at an international symposium on the mechanisms and treatment of nausea and vomiting in man held in Oxford in 1984.

This wonderful, profusely illustrated book provides a concise and thoughtful review of all the important diseases of the child's brain.

At the present time several techniques are available for studying quantitatively global and regional blood flow and metabolism of the human brain.

This book is intended as a short guide to the visualization of the anatomy of the normal brain by means of the NMR tomogram.

All too frequently, the largest effective barrier to interdisciplinary communication is jargon.

Significant progress has doubtlessly been made in the field of cere- bral protection compared to earlier centuries, as recently reviewed by Elisabeth Frost (6).

Eine Gesamtdarstellung der funktionellen Organisation und Bedeutung der Hirnrinde muß allgemeine Organisations- und Funktionsprinzipien ei­ nerseits, und die funktionelle Bedeutung einzelner Hirnrindenfelder ande­ rerseits berücksichtigen.

Erkrankungen der Wirbelsäule mit Beteiligung des Nervensystems konfrontieren uns mit einer Fülle von Symptomen, deren Deutung und Zuordnung aus der Sicht eines Fachgebietes bisweilen unvollkommen, unbefriedigend oder kaum möglich ist.

Die gegenwärtige Einstellung der Anaesthesiologen zur Praxis der kontrollierten Hypotension ist zwiespältig: die einen verteidigen sie nachdrücklich als Bereicherung der Anaesthesie­ Technik, die anderen stehen ihr skeptisch gegenüber oder lehnen sie als sinnlos und ge­ fahrlich ab [17, 18,24,25,27,32,36,55,59,102].

The Surgeon as a Humanist Medicine is the most humane of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

The most prominent function of the central nervous system is the control of motor functions by rapidly transmitted impulses through efferent cranial and spinal peripheral nerves.

There is no doubt that a major problem of present day research workers, especially in the life sciences, is the plethora of publications of all kinds, abstracts, short communications, full papers in journals of varying quality, reviews and proceedings of symposia with, in addition, an unprecedented duplication of publications.

The third American edition has been completely revised and expanded, although parts of the text of the second edition have been included.

"e;Anatomy is the mother of physiology"e; - this statement was used to characterize the evolution of physiology from anato- my as an independent science in the late nineteenth century.

The centennial of his birthday (17 March 1881) prompted the publi- cation of the Selected Works of Walter Rudolf Hess.

This book presents the proceedings of a satellite symposium of the XXVllth International Congress of IUPS held in Berlin, July 12-15, 1977 the latest of a series of meetings dealing with the organization of the autonomic nervous system, especially its central nervous control (Warsaw 1971, Tokyo 1974, Heidelberg 1976).

At the annual meetings of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Socie- ties (IFMSS) the representatives of the national MS societies of numerous countries assemble for discussions and reports on work accomplished, under way, and to be undertaken in the future.

Historically the search for the neural bases of behavior goes back a long way.

Schlaganfälle töten jährlich mehr als 275000 Amerikaner und invalidisieren weitere 300 000; sie stellen somit eine der Hauptur­ sachen für Tod und Langzeitinvalidität dar.

The introduction of computed tomography in the diagnosis of pathological intracranial conditions has had considerable significance in cases of cranio- cerebral injury.

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The rapid development of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the management of spinal angiomas has opened up new possibilities and provided better chances for the patients concerned.

Experimental gerontopsychology attempts to test causal hypotheses about old age-related behavioral changes by the manipulation of age-differences.

It is a privilege and pleasure to write a foreword to this work.

A workshop on Dynamic Aspects of Cerebral Edema was organized to pro- vide an opport~nitY,for interdisciplinary and detailed consideration of this subject, so crucial in neurology and neurosurgery.

Despite the amazing progress made by the stereotactic technique, particularly regarding the localization of the target, despite the extreme caution, which stereotactic neurosurgeons apply at every step of the procedures, despite the routine roentgenologic and physiologic controls (depth EEG, electric stimulation) preceding the production of a lesion, there remains a certain degree of uncertainty regarding the position, shape and extent of the lesion as well as of the electrode track and also regarding unintended lesions in the vicinity.

The papers presented at the Third International Symposium on Intracranial Pressure that was held at the University of Groningen.