Thus instead of being synonymous with specific procedures per formed at the level of the basal ganglia, stereotaxis is in fact a general diagnostic and therapeutic concept, which has as its aim the precise three-dimensional representation of the patient's brain in its entirety. This three-dimensional representation is based on anatomical, neuro radiological and other localizing information, the spatial integration Prof. Jean Talairach with friends and coworkers at the congress dinner in the Royaumont Abbey near Paris. (From left to right: Drs. ]. Bancaud, N. T. Zervas, B. Nashold, ]....

Local interstitial radiation therapy of intrinsic and inaccessible brain tumors is confronted with two major problems: 1. This report deals with the experimental findings of Iodine-125 and Iridium-I92 permanent implants in healthy and neoplastic brain tissue.

These collected papers represent only a small part of the large amount of new work in the field of stereotaxy. The number of contributions to the Birmingham meeting was such that only selected papers, chosen as representative of advances in the field, could be printed. These papers present the most up to date accounts of major advances in stereotactic imaging and the renewed interest in the stereotactic treatment of movement disorders. Contents Section I. Stereotactic Imaging, Tumours and Haematomas Lipinski, H. G., Struppler, A., Birk, P.: Transformation Modes in Computerized Human Thalamic...

The last ten years has witnessed a resurgence of interest in stereotactic surgery although this has been mainly in the field of the comparatively simple stereotactic biopsy of intracranial tumours. There is also evidence of a returning interest in functional neurosurgery other than pain which has always sustained high levels of endeavour. The present work comprises selected papers from a much larger group of interesting and important communications to the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. They represent modern views on a wide variety of stereotactic surgical...

The book gives the most up-to-date information for the expanding field of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery from European and international experts. The newest developments in neural transplantation and stereotactic irradiation are included together with the reports on extensive trials of analgesic surgery and new techniques used in the treatment of a variety of functional disorders.

This is a selection of papers presented at the meeting of the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery in 1994 and it gives an update of the state-of-art of treatment of movement disorders, pain and stereotactic techniques. Frameless stereotaxy and the practical usage of a navigator viewing wand system are discussed. A novel approach to the localization of the motor cortex is represented by a description of the usage of 3D MR-imaging. Several papers deal with methods applied for intraoperative monitoring such as microrecording and evoked potentials, and the clinical...