Pain. Brain Stimulation in the Treatment of Pain.

Intro -- PAIN. BRAIN STIMULATION IN THE TREATMENT OF PAIN -- DISABILITY STUDIES -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- INTRODUCTION TOELECTROTHERAPY TECHNOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- ELECTROTHERAPY DEVICE COMPONENTS -- ELECTROTHERAPY PARADIGM CLASSIFICATION -- RATIONAL ELECTROTHERAPY DESIGN -- SAFETY OF ELECTROTHERAPY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- BRAIN CHANGES RELATED TO CHRONIC PAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- Neuropathic pain -- Musculoskeletal pain syndromes -- Potential mechanisms underlying plastic changes of thebrain in pain -- Plastic changes in the brain and learning and memory processes -- Extinction as the basis of brain stimulation treatments -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- BRAIN STIMULATION FOR THETREATMENT OF PAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- MECHANISMS AND COMPONENTS OF CENTRAL PAIN -- CORTICAL STIMULATION IN TREATMENT OF PAIN -- METHODS OF STIMULATION -- Epidural motor cortex stimulation -- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation -- Transcranial direct current stimulation -- COST-EFFECTIVENESS -- Effectiveness measures -- Cost measures -- Economic evaluation -- Preliminary results -- Costs of treatment -- Cost-effectiveness -- Scenario 1: 1-year treatment -- Scenario 2: 5-year treatment -- SUMMARY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION FOR CHRONIC PAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- MECHANICS OF DBS SURGERY -- Patient selection -- Surgical procedures -- Safety and complications -- The principles of DBS -- Functional neuroimaging -- Synthesis of mechanisms -- Findings using DBS for chronic pain -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INVASIVE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC NEUROPATHIC PAIN SYNDROMES: EPIDURAL STIMULATION OF THE MOTOR CORTEX -- INTRODUCTION -- OUR STUDIES -- Preoperative imaging/fMRI -- Operative procedure -- Postoperative clinical test trial -- Double blinded testing.

Complications -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- BRAIN STIMULATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF POSTOPERATIVE PAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- BRAIN STIMULATION AND POSTOPERATIVE PAIN MANAGEMENT -- GENERAL ANESTHESIA AND BRAIN STIMULATION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX FOR INTRACTABLE NEUROPATHIC DEAFFERENTATION PAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- PHARMACOLOGICAL TESTS -- PATIENTS -- SURGICAL METHODS -- REPRESENTATIVE SURGICAL TECHNIQUES (SEE TABLE 1) -- Epidural single burr-hole -- Two epidural burr-holes -- Epidural bone flap -- Subdural method -- RESULTS OF MOTOR CORTEX STIMULATION -- COMPLICATIONS -- PAIN RELIEF MECHANISM WITH MCS -- rTMS (REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION) -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PRINCIPLES AND MECHANISMS OF TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION -- INTRODUCTION -- PRINCIPLES OF TMS -- NEURONAL ELEMENTS ACTIVATED BY TMS -- WHICH FUNCTIONS CAN WE ACCESS WITH TMS? -- NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS -- SHORT-INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION (SICI) -- INTERHEMISPHERIC INHIBITION (IHI) -- MOTOR CORTICAL EXCITABILITY, BRAIN PLASTICITY ANDMOTOR LEARNING -- RTMS -- MECHANISMS OF THE AFTER-EFFECTS OF RTMS -- TMS, RTMS AND MOTOR LEARNING -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PRINCIPLE AND MECHANISMS OF TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION (TDCS) -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNICAL ASPECTS -- PRIMARY MECHANISM OF ACTION -- PARAMETERS SHAPING THE EFFECTS OF TDCS -- MECHANISMS OF ACTION -- Neurophysiological studies -- Pharmacological studies -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- NON-INVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION THERAPY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME (CRPS) -- INTRODUCTION -- MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF PAIN AND OTHER SYMPTOMS ASSOCIATED WITH CRPS -- CORTICAL REORGANIZATION IN CRPS -- rTMS FOR ALLEVIATION OF CRPS-RELATED PAIN.

tDCS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CRPS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- NON-INVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION APPROACHES TO FIBROMYALGIA PAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL ABNORMALITIES -- RATIONALE FOR NON-INVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SAFETY OF TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION (TDCS) IN PROTOCOLS INVOLVING HUMAN SUBJECTS -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS OF TDCS SAFETY -- OUR SEARCH -- FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION -- tDCS Protocols in Healthy Subjects -- tDCS Protocols in Patients with Various Diagnoses -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE EDITORS -- ABOUT THE INSTITUTE FOR NON-INVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION OF NEW YORK -- CONTACT -- ABOUT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OFCHILD HEALTH AND HUMANDEVELOPMENT IN ISRAEL -- MISSION -- SERVICE AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES -- RESEARCH ACTIVITIES -- NATIONAL COLLABORATIONS -- INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS -- TARGETS -- CONTACT -- ABOUT THE DISABILITY STUDIES BOOK SERIES -- CONTACT -- INDEX.

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