Neurosurgical Management of Pain

1 Pain Physiology and Clinical Presentation.- 1. Physiology of Pain.- 2. Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Pain.- 3. Rehabilitation and Treatment Outcome.- 4A. Low Back Pain.- 4B. Low Back Pain.- 4C. Ischemic Pain.- 5. Chronic Nociceptive Pain Syndromes: Cancer Pain.- 6. Peripheral Nerve Injury and Sympathetically Maintained Pain: Mechanisms and Surgical Approach.- 7. Facial and Cranial Pain.- 8. Chronic Pain Syndromes of the Central Nervous System.- 9. Pharmacotherapy of Chronic Pain.- 2 Neurosurgical Procedures: Anatomic and Ablative.- 10. Neurosurgical Procedures of the Peripheral Nerves.- 11. Neurosurgical Procedures of the Sympathetic Nervous System.- 12. DREZ Lesions for Treatment of Pain.- 13. Cordotomy and Myelotomy.- 14. Trigeminal Nerve and Ganglion Procedures.- 15. Intracranial Ablative Procedures.- 3 Neurosurgical Procedures: Augmentative.- 16. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation.- 17. Spinal Cord Stimulation.- 18. Brain Stimulation.- 19. Implanted Drug Delivery Systems for Control of Chronic Pain.- 4 Algorithms and Guidelines.- 20. Facial Pain.- 21. Cancer Pain.- 22. Algorithms for Treatment of Neuropathic Pain Syndromes.- 23. Chronic Low Back Pain and Failed Back Surgery Syndrome.