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Intraoperative optical imaging for functional mapping

J Neurosurg 119:853–863, 2013 Intraoperative optical imaging (IOI) is an experimental technique used for visualizing functional brain areas after surgical exposure of the cerebral cortex. This...

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Fiber tractography of basal ganglia and cerebellum in PD

J Neurosurg 120:988–996, 2014 Stimulation of white matter pathways near targeted structures may contribute to therapeutic effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for patients with Parkinson disease...

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Continuous dynamic mapping of the corticospinal tract during surgery of motor...

J Neurosurg 120:1015–1024, 2014 The authors developed a new mapping technique to overcome the temporal and spatial limitations of classic subcortical mapping of the corticospinal tract (CST). The...

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Inducing transient language disruptions by mapping of Broca’s area with...

J Neurosurg 120:1033–1041, 2014 Until now there has been no reliable stimulation protocol for inducing transient language disruptions while mapping Broca’s area. Despite the promising data of only a...

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Multitarget, dual-electrode stimulation for Holmes’ tremor

J Neurosurg 120:1025–1032, 2014 Holmes’ tremor (HT) is generally considered to be a symptomatic tremor associated with lesions of the cerebellum, midbrain, or thalamus. Deep brain stimulation (DBS)...

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Association of dorsal inferior frontooccipital fasciculus fibers in the deep...

J Neurosurg 121:142–148, 2014 Alexia and agraphia are disorders common to the left inferior parietal lobule, including the angular and supramarginal gyri. However, it is still unclear how these...

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Repeat microvascular decompression for recurrent idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia

DOI: 10.3171/2014.7.JNS132667 Microvascular decompression (MVD) is considered the method of choice to treat idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia (TN) refractory to medical treatment. However, repeat MVD...

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Diffusion tensor tractography in deep brain stimulation

J Neurosurg 121:929–935, 2014 The purpose of this study was to investigate whether diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of the corticospinal tract (CST) is a reliable surrogate for intraoperative...

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Deep brain stimulation versus anterior capsulotomy for obsessive-compulsive...

J Neurosurg 122:1028–1037, 2015 Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic and debilitating psychiatric condition. Traditionally, anterior capsulotomy (AC) was an established procedure for...

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Deep brain stimulation versus anterior capsulotomy for obsessive-compulsive...

J Neurosurg 122:1028–1037, 2015 Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic and debilitating psychiatric condition. Traditionally, anterior capsulotomy (AC) was an established procedure for...

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Intraoperative MRI and DBS for Parkinson disease

J Neurosurg 124:62–69, 2016 The degree of clinical improvement achieved by deep brain stimulation (DBS) is largely dependent on the accuracy of lead placement. This study reports on the evaluation of...

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Parkinson’s disease outcomes after intraoperative CT-guided “asleep” deep...

J Neurosurg 124:902–907, 2016 Recent studies show that deep brain stimulation can be performed safely and accurately without microelectrode recording or test stimulation but with the patient under...

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Neurosurgery for schizophrenia

J Neurosurg 124:917–928, 2016 The main objectives of this review were to provide an update on the progress made in understanding specific circuit abnormalities leading to psychotic symptoms in...

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Cost analysis of awake versus asleep deep brain stimulation

J Neurosurg 124:1517–1523, 2016 The objective of this study was to compare the cost of deep brain stimulation (DBS) performed awake versus asleep at a single US academic health center and to compare...

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Graph theory, complex networks, and neurosurgery

J Neurosurg 124:1665–1678, 2016 Neuroanatomy has entered a new era, culminating in the search for the connectome, otherwise known as the brain’s wiring diagram. While this approach has led to landmark...

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Bilateral deep brain stimulation of the fornix for Alzheimer’s disease

J Neurosurg 125:75–84, 2016 This report describes the stereotactic technique, hospitalization, and 90-day perioperative safety of bilateral deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the fornix in patients who...

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Simultaneous bilateral stereotactic procedure for deep brain stimulation...

J Neurosurg 125:85–89, 2016 Currently, bilateral procedures involve 2 sequential implants in each of the hemispheres. The present report demonstrates the feasibility of simultaneous bilateral...

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Stimulation sites in the subthalamic nucleus and clinical improvement in...

J Neurosurg 125:1068–1079, 2016 Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is widely used in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, which target area of this region...

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Electrical stimulation of the parahippocampal gyrus for prediction of...

J Neurosurg 125:1053–1060, 2016 Epilepsy surgery is of known bene t for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE); however, a certain number of patients suffer signi cant decline in verbal memory...

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Walking assessment after lumbar puncture in normal-pressure hydrocephalus: a...

J Neurosur (126) 148-157, 2017 The determination of gait improvement after lumbar puncture (LP) in idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is crucial, but the best time for such an assessment...

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