Reconstructive Neurosurgery

Functional neurosurgery.- The role of modern imaging modalities on deep brain stimulation targeting for mental illness.- Deep brain stimulation for movement disorders and its neuropsychological implications.- Results by motor cortex stimulation in treatment of focal dystonia, Parkinson's disease and post-ictal spasticity. The experience of the Italian Study Group of the Italian Neurosurgical Society.- Electrically and mechanically evoked nociceptive neuronal responses in the rat anterior cingulate cortex.- Trigeminal neuralgia. Non-invasive techniques versus microvascular decompression. It is really available any further improvement?.- Gamma knife radiosurgery for medically refractory idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia.- Stereotactic lesioning for mental illness.- Neurorehabilitation.- Restoration of locomotion in posttraumatic paraplegics: The multidisciplinary approach and unexpected plasticity of single neurons - facts and fantasy.- Posttraumatic rehabilitation and one year outcome following acute traumatic brain injury (TBI): Data from the well defined population based German Prospective Study 2000-2002.- A randomized controlled trial of constraint-induced movement therapy after stroke.- Increased regional cerebral perfusion in contralateral motor and somatosensory areas after median nerve stimulation therapy.- Effects of electrical cervical spinal cord stimulation on cerebral blood perfusion, cerebrospinal fluid catecholamine levels, and oxidative stress in comatose patients.- New technology.- Strategic plan: building a international strategy for risk reduction supercourse.- Endovascular procedures for cerebrovenous disorders.- Translational research.- Transgenic rodent models of Parkinson's disease.- Nigrostriatal alterations in bone morphogenetic proteinreceptor II dominant negative mice.- AAV-GAD gene for rat models of neuropathic pain and Parkinson's disease.- The role of genetic factors in the development of hemifacial spasm: preliminary results.- Traumatic