Surgical Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders

I Rationale for Surgical Therapy.- 1 Physiology of the Basal Ganglia and Pathophysiology of Movement Disorders.- 2 Basal Ganglia Circuitry and Synaptic Connectivity.- 3 Surgical Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: Past, Present, and Future.- II Surgical Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease and Tremor.- 4 Patient Selection for Movement Disorders Surgery.- 5 Methods of Patient Assessment in Surgical Therapy for Movement Disorders.- 6 Target Localization in Movement Disorders Surgery.- 7 Thalamotomy for Tremor.- 8 Pallidotomy for Parkinson’s Disease.- 9 Bilateral Pallidotomy in Parkinson’s Disease: Costs and Benefits.- 10 Subthalamotomy for Parkinson’s Disease.- 11 Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor.- 12 Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease.- 13 Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease.- 14 Methods of Programming and Patient Management with Deep Brain Stimulation.- 15 The Role of Neuropsychological Evaluation in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Movement Disorders.- 16 Surgical Treatment of Secondary Tremor.- III Surgical Therapy for Dystonia.- 17 Thalamotomy for Dystonia.- 18 Pallidotomy and Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation for Dystonia.- 19 Surgical Treatment of Spasmodic Torticollis by Peripheral Denervation.- 20 Intrathecal Baclofen for Dystonia and Related Motor Disorders.- IV Miscellaneous.- 21 Positron Emission Tomography in Surgery for Movement Disorders.- 22 Fetal Tissue Transplantation for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease.- 23 Future Surgical Therapies in Parkinson’s Disease.