Neuropsychology for Movement Disorders Neurosurgery

Neuropsychology for movement disorders neurosurgery.

The neuropsychologist plays a crucial role in three phases of the neurosurgical treatment of movement disorder patients, namely screening, outcome evaluation and research. In screening patients, the differential diagnosis of dementia, impact of depression or other psychiatric conditions, and the influence of disease and medication-induced symptoms on cognitive performance must be determined. Po...

Stereotactic neurosurgery for movement disorders.

Stereotactic neurosurgery for the treatment of movement disorders focuses primarily on the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD), essential tremor (ET), and dystonia. The surgical targets in use are the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and the globus pallidus internus (GPi) for PD, GPi for dystonia, and ventralis intermedius (Vim) nucleus of the thalamus for ET. Following target selection, procedures ...

The Neuropsychology of Movement and Movement Disorders: Neuroanatomical and Cognitive Considerations.

This paper highlights major developments over the past two to three decades in the neuropsychology of movement and its disorders. We focus on studies in healthy individuals and patients, which have identified cognitive contributions to movement control and animal work that has delineated the neural circuitry that makes these interactions possible. We cover advances in three major areas: (1) the...

Editorial Neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders

Daring must be an inborn trait. Egas Moniz, the neurolo-gist who extrapolated from the abolition of experimental neurosis in two chimpanzees to the invention of a procedure to ablate pathways of the frontal lobes in mentally ill human beings, had already developed angiog-raphy and spent time in jail for opposition to the Portugese monarchy 1. Such a man could write, in recording the results in ...

Editorial Neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders