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Functional neurosurgery resource features state-of-the-art approaches from renowned experts!

For patients with inadequately treated epilepsy, tremor, dystonia, spasticity, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Parkinsons and Alzheimers disease, functional neurosurgery offers hope. Functional Neurosurgery: The Essentials is a reader-friendly introduction to this fascinating and rapidly evolving field. The text is edited by internationally prominent functional neurosurgeons Jeffrey A. Brown, Julie G. Pilitsis, and Michael Schulder. It features contributions from authors with expertise spanning the disciplines of neurosurgery, neurology, rehabilitation and physical medicine, neurophysiology, bioengineering, psychiatry and ophthalmology.

Opening with a brief history of stereotaxy/functional neurosurgery and brain stereotactic frames, 41 concise and coherent chapters explore cutting-edge approaches to a broad range of functionally treatable conditions. The chapters yield a solid foundation of understanding of the field, with insightful commentary, pearls, and nuances from the editors. The starting question in the neuroprosthetics chapter, Can a computer infer human intention or perception? brings to life the exciting, inquisitive, and pioneering spirit of this subspecialty. The robust reference list provides a guide to deeper study that should continue throughout training and practice.

Highlights

  • Imaging: MRI and CT for stereotactic neurosurgery, fMRI and resting state MRI
  • Movement disorders: A comparative analysis of the risks and benefits of deep brain stimulation versus lesioning
  • Epilepsy: Temporal lobectomy and extra-temporal surgery; invasive monitoring, neuromodulation, laser interstitial thermal therapy, and vagus nerve stimulation
  • Dystonia: Etiology to diagnosis, medical and surgical options
  • Future innovations: Exoskeletons, intention controlled, and visual neuroprosthetics

The text is a fundamental resource for neurosurgical residents during their functional neurosurgery rotations and for general neurosurgeons and functional subspecialists on procedures they may not routinely perform in clinical practice.

This book includes complimentary access to a digital copy on https://medone.thieme.com.

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Acknowledgments/Dedication

To Brookes and Schuyler for special time gone by and to Rory for so many decades of love and support.

-Jeffrey A. Brown

To my mother for her unconditional love and support. To my husband Tim and children Ryan and Lauren who make it all worth it. To all my teammates in Neurosurgery and Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, thank you for all you to do to care for existing patients and advance our field.

A special thank you to Pya Seidner who aided considerably with editing and communicating with the authors, editors and publishers.

-Julie G. Pilitsis

To my wife, Dr. Lu Steinberg, who believed in me and keeps me going.

-Michael Schulder

1 History of Innovation in Stereotaxy/Functional Neurosurgery

David W. Roberts

Abstract

Neurosurgery has long led the surgical specialties in the development of innovative clinical applications of technique and technology, and the subspecialty of stereotactic and functional surgery has stood at the vanguard of such creativity.

Keywords: neurosurgery, stereotaxy, functional

1.1 Early Years and the Concept of Co-registration

Before Francis Gall and the much-maligned field of phrenology, the brain was thought to be a holistic organ. Gall, underappreciated as a neuroanatomist, pioneered the concept of localizing cerebral activity to varied brain regions. Fritsch and Hitzig identified circumscribed cortical sties in the brain that elicited contralateral limb movement. Ferrier followed this work by using stimulation and ablation to demarcate the primary sensory and motor cortices, further confirming the legitimacy of this new paradigm of cerebral functional identity. Modern stereotaxy then began with the work of two men, Sir Victor Horsley and Robert Clarke, at what was then known then as the National Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System including Paralysis and Epilepsy at Queen Square in London, UK.

Horsley used electrical stimulation to identify then excise a cortical epileptic focus but struggled with imprecise cerebellar localization efforts. Clarke, a physiologist, devised a head-mounted instrument for accurate placement of a needle-like probe to minimize brain injury and improve precision. Instruments for cranial measurement and for localization on the scalp or cranium had been developed by others, including Bridges and Morgan, Broca, Kocher, Zernov, and Rossolimo, but Clarkes instrument, as Horsley himself referred to it, was a three-dimensional digitizer, defining a coordinate space and capable of reliably directing a relatively atraumatic probe to target addresses within that space ( Substructures, like the dentate nucleus, could then be identified. Uniquely, the instrument used co-registration of that surgical space, combining the cranial features of the inferior orbital rim and the external auditory canals, with an atlas comprised of anatomic slices of the brain related to the same external landmarks.

From this founding principle, the defining concept of stereotactic surgery was born.

The variability of both the larger human forebrain and its relationship to external cranial features precluded the translation of the Horsley-Clarke instrument to clinical use. Spiegel and Wycis devised a frame that merged loci of the foramen of Monro and pineal gland obtained from pneumoencephalography into coordinates in a stereotactic device. They used it for thalamic ablations as a less invasive option to frontal leukotomy. Their work spawned the development of innumerable, ingenious stereotactic frames. Surgeons such as Leksell, Reichert and Mundinger, Talairach, and Narabayashi, among many others, designed devices. The advent of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging brought new clinical capabilities and needs. Tumors could now be readily seen. How could they be safely reached to biopsy or remove? The ability to do so had been restricted to a subset of neurosurgeons who could, for example, interpret Leksells spiral diagram to deal with radiologic parallax. By simplifying the co-registration process, the field was widely opened.

1906: Horsley and Clarke create the first stereotactic frame, co-registering the external auditory canal and inferior orbital rim with an anatomic atlas of the brain. Sachs brings it to the U.S. three years later, and the innovation is largely ignored.

1947: Spiegel-Wycis-Leksell introduce devices based at first on encephalographic landmarks.

1979: Brown, with Roberts, and Wells introduce computational elements of transformational equations with computed tomography to stereotaxy.

1986: Roberts proposes a frameless neuronavigational system integrated with the operating microscope.

1.2 The Computational Era

Computational co-registration underlays the design of a new stereotactic frame, the Brown-Roberts-Wells frame. More significant was the extension of stereotaxy to craniotomy and volumetric resection. Sheldon and Jacques adapted a tulipretractor to a stereotactic frame for tumor resection, but it was Kelly who promoted the computer as a surgical tool by which multiple imaging data sets could be compiled into a single database, which could then be co-registered with the surgical field using an operating microscope attached to the guiding arc of an enlarged stereotactic frame. Whereas early stereotaxy relied upon a surgeons calculation of frame coordinates for a point selected within an atlas or tomographic image, the early computers of the 1980s could readily calculate the transformation required to move in either direction between large sets of points in a preoperative image and in the operative field.

Computational resources advanced the field dramatically, introducing what was initially called frameless stereotaxy, then neuronavigation, and now image-guidance. The functions of a stereotactic frame were to define an operative coordinate space, enable co-registration with preoperative coordinate spaces, and render that information useful to guide an instrument to its deep-seated target. Now this could be improved upon computer-based systems. It was now possible to eliminating the need even for the frame. The concept of stereotaxy was now projected beyond intracranial space. Non-contact digitizers based upon sonic, mechanical arm, optical, and electromagnetic Rapid computation of coordinate transformations correlating the surgical field with sets of fiducial points, surfaces, or volumes in imaging studies replaced human-scale point calculations relying upon superstructures attached to frame bases. Graphic displays that could indicate instrument location and project them onto appropriate radiologic image slices or superimpose it into heads-up displays in operating microscopes along with other relevant information as augmented reality radically advanced effector bandwidth and stereotaxic utility. Dozens of such systems created in individual laboratories made for an exciting, disruptive era that soon matured, coalescing into the handful of systems in use today. Without need of a frame, stereotaxys co-registration principle now extends to much of general neurosurgery and increasingly to other surgical fields.

Fig 11 Clarkes instrument the stereotactic apparatus developed by Robert - photo 1

Fig. 1.1 Clarkes instrument, the stereotactic apparatus developed by Robert Clarke and Sir Victor Horsley.

Stereotactic principles moved from burr holes with guidance to craniotomies with guidance. Now, the dilemma of intraoperative data degradation needed to be addressed. What was co-registered before surgery could change mid surgery. Intraoperative MRI and CT machines that can acquire new, updated radiologic images have proliferated. Such implementation and the optimization of its surgical application is ongoing.

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