In: Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Lozano A., Gildenberg P. (eds.). Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Chapter 123, pp. 2081-2096, 2009. Read a part of this chapter on Google Books
Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Pain. Progress in Pain Research and Management, eds. G.F. Gebhart, D.L. Hammond, and T.S. Jensen. IASP Press: Seattle. Vol. 2, 1994. Find this book on Google Books
The over-inhibition of thalamic relay cells by hyperactivity of the internal part of the globus pallidus is a cornerstone of the parkinsonian pathophysiology that leads to a distortion of the thalamocortical dynamics called thalamocortical dysrhythmia (TCD). Here, we present the results of the stereotactic pallidothalamic tractotomy (PTT), which interrupts selectively the enhanced pallidal output to […]
Functional brain imaging of pain over the last years has provided insight into a distributed anatomical matrix involved in pain processing which includes multiple cortical areas. EEG/MEG-based imaging studies have mostly relied on settings of evoked nociception. We report here the spontaneous presence of enhanced activations in the pain matrix of the patient group on […]
Research investigating the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD) mostly focuses on basal ganglia dysfunction. However, the main output from the basal ganglia is via the thalamus, and corticothalamic feedback constitutes the primary source of synapses in the thalamus. We therefore focus on the thalamocortical interplay. During the surgical intervention in six patients, local field potentials […]
Patients with severe and chronic neurogenic pain are known to exhibit excess EEG oscillations in the 4- to 9-Hz theta frequency band in comparison with healthy controls. The generators of these excess EEG oscillations are localized in the cortical pain matrix. Since cortex and thalamus are tightly interconnected anatomically, we asked how thalamic activity and […]
Oscillatory and coherent EEG activity is increasingly recognized as a fundamental hallmark of cortical integrative functions. We aimed to study deviations from the norm of different resting EEG parameters in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. We compared spectral parameters of the resting EEG of PD patients (n=24, median age 67 years) to those of healthy controls […]
In: Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Lozano A., Gildenberg P. (eds.). Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Chapter 123, pp. 2081-2096, 2009. Read a part of this chapter on Google Books
Functional stereotactic lesions in the central lateral nucleus of the medial thalamus have proved to be an effective treatment of neurogenic pain and other neurological disorders associated with thalamocortical dysrhythmia. The mechanisms underlying patient recovery after surgery are currently being explored using quantitative electroencephalography. Here we test the hypothesis that the particular role played by […]