Advances in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 2 Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Madrid 1975

Section I. Cerebral Palsy and Hyperkinesias.- Experiences of Stereotaxic Surgery on Cerebral Palsy Patients.- Multilocular Lesions in the Therapy of Cerebral Palsy.- Stereotactic Lesions of the Pulvinar for Hypertonus and Dyskinesias.- Combined Transtentorial Dentatotomy With Pulvinarotomy in Cerebral Palsy.- Neurosurgical Treatment of Spasticity and Dyskinesias.- Long-Term Assessment of Stereotactic Dentatotomy for Spasticity and Other Disorders.- Long-Term Review of Dentatectomy in Dystonia Musculorum Deformans and Cerebral Palsy.- New Aspects in the Surgical Treatment of Cerebral Palsy.- Chronic Cerebellar Stimulation in Spastic Choreo-Athetosis.- Treatment of Spasmodic Torticollis With Dorsal Column Stimulation.- Percutaneous Rhizotomy of the Articular Nerve of Luschka for Low Back and Sciatic Pain.- Stereotactic Surgery in Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome.- Section II. Techniques.- Tomography in Stereotaxis. A New Stereoencephalotome Designed for this Purpose.- Computerized Graphic Display of Results of Subcortical Stimulation During Stereotactic Surgery.- A Computer Programme System for Stereotactic Neurosurgery.- Electrophysiological Set-Up for Data Acquisition and Processing During Stereotaxic Surgery: Demonstration on Pulvinar Units.- Estimation of the Neural Noise Within the Human Thalamus.- Technical Factors in Stereotaxic Hypophysectomy.- Structural, Ultrastructural and Functional Reactions of the Brain After Implanting Yttrium 90 Rods Used in Stereotactic Neurosurgery.- Section III. Neurophysiology.- The Study of Recovery and Modification of the Evoked Potentials and Motor Answers in the Motor System.- Modification of Thalamic Evoked Activity by Dorsal Column Stimulation.- Auditory Evoked Potentials Recorded From Chronic Implanted Gyrus of Heschl in Man.- The Effect of Graded Thermocoagulation on Trigeminal Evoked Potentials in the Cat.- Functional Exploration of the Spinomedullary Junction.- Role of the Amygdala and Hypothalamus in the Control of Gastric Secretion in Human Beings.- The Effects of Drugs on the Field Potential in the Caudate Nucleus Following Nigra Stimulation.- The Relationship of Hallucinations to the Depth Structures of the Temporal Lobe.- Section IV. Pain.- Observation of Kindling Phenomenon in Treatment of the Pain by Means of Stimulation in Thalamus.- Electroanalgesia.- Anterior Pulvinotomy in the Treatment of Intractable Pain.- Paraqueductal Mesencephalotomy for Facial Central Pain.- Late Results of Central Stereotactic Interventions for Pain.- Stereotactic Cryothalamotomy for Pain.- Limbic Target Surgery in the Treatment of Intractable Pain With Drug Addiction.- Advantage and Limits of Intracerebral Pain Stereotaxy.