J Headache Pain. 2011 October; 12(5): 527–534. Published online 2011 May 13. doi:  10.1007/s10194-011-0349-x PMCID: PMC3173624 Diagnosis and neurosurgical treatment of glossopharyngeal neuralgia: clinical findings and 3-D visualization of neurovascular compression in 19 consecutive patients CLICK HERE C. Gaul,1,2 P. Hastreiter,3 A. Duncker,2 and R. Naraghi3 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License [...]

Journal of Neurosurgery Dec 2010 / Vol. 113 / No. 6 / Pages 1204-1211 Article Stereotactic lesions for the treatment of psychiatric disorders (Click Here) A review James W. Leiphart, M.D., Ph.D.1, and Frank H. Valone III, M.D.2 1Departments of Neurological Surgery and Anatomy and Regenerative Biology, and 2The George Washington University School of Medicine [...]

Journal of Neurosurgery, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-8, Ahead of Print. Epilepsy surgery is an effective treatment for medically resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). To minimize complication rates and potentially improve neuropsychology outcomes, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) has been explored as an alternative. Two pilot trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of SRS for the treatment [...]

  Obesity is a growing health problem worldwide and is responsible for a significant proportion of health expenditures in developed nations. It is also notoriously difficult to treat. Prior attempts at pharmacological or neurological modulation, including deep brain stimulation, have primarily targeted homeostatic mechanisms of weight control centered in the hypothalamus. To date, these attempts [...]

Special Supplements Dec 2011 / Vol. 115 / No. 1 / Pages 758-765 Stereotactic Radiosurgery Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery for idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia (Click here) Clinical article Douglas Kondziolka, M.D., M.Sc., F.R.C.S.C.1,3, Oscar Zorro, M.D.1,3, Javier Lobato-Polo, M.D.1,3, Hideyuki Kano, M.D., Ph.D.1,3, Thomas J. Flannery, F.R.C.S., Ph.D.1,3, John C. Flickinger, M.D.2,3, and L. Dade Lunsford, [...]

Hypertension is a disease that affects approximately one billion people worldwide. It is estimated that as much as 5 to 30% of the hypertensive population are resistant. We present the first case of a hypertensive patient on quadruple medical therapy whose blood pressure was controlled with DBS of the ventral lateral periaqueductal grey (vlPAG); this [...]

Publication year: 2012 Source:Journal of Clinical Neuroscience George K.C. Wong, Michael K.M. Kam, Samuel K.W. Chiu, Joseph M.K. Lam, Clarence H.S. Leung, Daniel W.K. Ng, Y.K. Ngar, Wai S. Poon The modified radiosurgery-based arteriovenous malformation (AVM) score (modified AVM score or Pollock–Flickinger AVM score [PFAS]) is a simplified grading system developed to predict outcome after [...]

Improvements remain stable for up to 3 years and don’t differ significantly whether the target is the subthalamic nucleus or globus pallidus interna, although there may be benefits with the latter. Medscape Medical News http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/766232?src=rss

Abstract This report shows the results of stereotactic radiation therapy for progressive residual pilocytic astrocytomas. Medical records of patients who had undergone stereotactic radiation therapy for a progressive residual pilocytic astrocytoma were reviewed. Between 1995 and 2010, 12 patients with progression of a residual pilocytic astrocytoma underwent stereotactic radiation therapy at UCLA. Presentation was headache [...]

There is a growing interest in adjuvant radiosurgery after resection of hematogenous brain metastases. This is exemplified by the approximately 1000 cases reported in mainly retrospective series. These cases fall into four paradigms: adjuvant radiosurgery as an alternative to whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT), radiosurgery neoadjuvant to the surgical resection, radiosurgery as an intensification of adjuvant WBRT, [...]