vagus nerve stimulation

ISBN-13: 9781841842578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 184 str.

MD Steven C. Schachter; Dieter Schmidt; Schachter C. Schachter

Opis

This second edition presents a timely, practical, clinically relevant and focused updated discussion of vagal nerve stimulation in a readily-understood and well-illustrated format. It provides a clinical approach to the treatment of patients with medically intractable seizures, as well as for those with depression (a new indication since the first edition).

Recenzje

"…Some of the best clinical investigators in the field have written chapters in this book with impeccable literary and technical finesse."
-New England Journal of Medicine

Spis treści

Anatomical, Experimental, and Mechanistic Investigations. Surgical Aspects. Efficacy, Tolerability, and Safety for Epilepsy. Potential Mechanism(s) of Action of VNS for Depression. Efficacy and Tolerability of VNS for Depression. Other Emerging Uses. The Place of VNS in the Current Treatment of Epilepsy. Practical Aspects of VNS: Questions and Answers.

O autorze

Steven C Schachter MD (Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Director of Research Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA, USA), Dieter Schmidt MD (Emeritus Professor of Neurology, Epilepsy Research Group, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany)