Here is a comprehensive, up-to-date view of both the underlying principles and the current practice of this highly sophisticated, minimally invasive approach to neurosurgical intervention. Coverage spans the principles of frame-based and frameless systems of stereotaxis, image guidance stereotaxis, atlases and the technical aspects of radiosurgery. Written with the contributions of leading international experts, the book includes chapter-length discussions of Movement Disorders; Cancer Pain; Treatment of Persistent Non-Cancer Pain; Evaluation of Epilepsy; Management of Epilepsy and Surgery for Psychiatric Disorders. The volume concludes with a stimulating look into the future of stereotaxis, including coming technological advances. Videos on an accompanying DVD depict the surgical procedures, demonstrated step by step.
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.
