History of Stereotactic Surgery.- Imaging in Stereotactic Surgery.- Stereotactic Targeting.- Image Guided Neurosurgery.- Stereotactic Radiosurgery.- Functional Neurosurgery – Technical Aspects.- Functional Neurosurgery for Movement and Motor Disorders – Clinical Aspects.- Functional Neurosurgery for Pain.- Management of Epilepsy.- Psychiatric Surgery.- Special and Emerging Applications.- The Future of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.- Index.
Andres Lozano, MD, PhD, FRCS, FACS is a 1983 graduate of the
Ottawa Faculty of Medicine. He trained in Neurosurgy at McGill
University and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons in Canada in 1990, also earning a PhD in Experimental
Medicine in during his residency. He studied stereotactic and
functional neurosurgery under Dr. Ron Tasker, at the Toronto
Western Hospital, and joined the Neurosurgical Staff at Toronto
Western in 1991. He is Professor in the Department of Surgery, and
inaugural holder of the Ron Tasker Chair in Stereotactic and
Functional Neurosurgery at the University Health Networks. Dr.
Lozano’s awards include a Gold Medal in Surgery from the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons in Canada, the Penfield Award,
the Jasper Award, the McKenzie Award, the George Armstrong Peters
Award, the Colin Woolf Award and Montreal Neurological Institute
Fellows Award. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of
the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Ronald Tasker, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, is a world-renowned
neurosurgeon who is known as a caring physician, a teacher and a
mentor. His meticulous study of the human brain's deepest centers
has broadened the understanding of and improved the quality of life
for people living with Parkinson's disease and other forms of
tremor, involuntary movement and chronic pain. Professor Tasker is
a member of many international societies.
Philip L. Gildenberg, M.D., Ph.D. received a B.A. degree in
Physiology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955, his M.D.
and M.S. in Neurophysiology from Temple University Medical School
in Philadelphia, PA in 1959 followed by a Ph.D. in Neurophysiology
from Temple in 1970. He is Director of Houston Stereotactic
Concepts, Clinical Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery) and Clinical
Professor of Radiology (Radiation Oncology) at Baylor College of
Medicine. Dr. Gildenberg retired from the clinical practice of
neurosurgery in October 2001. He is the Past-President of the World
Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.
From the reviews of the second edition: "The main purpose is to address the major advances in this area, particularly related to the technological developments that have been behind the continuous progress in the field in the 60 years since its introduction. Neurosurgeons, neurologists, radiation oncologists, neuro-oncologists, and radiation physicists are the main audience. ... This is a needed update. ... It is well worth its price." (Celso Agner, Doody's Review Service, March, 2010)
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