184 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
184 Pages
by
CRC Press
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This second edition presents a timely and practical discussion of vagal nerve stimulation in a clear and well-illustrated format. It provides a clinical approach to the treatment of patients with medically-intractable seizures, as well as for those with depression (a new indication since the publication of first edition). The book's focus has made it successful, as it zeros in on clinically... Read more
Anatomical, Experimental, and Mechanistic Investigations. Surgical Aspects. Efficacy, Tolerability, and Safety for Epilepsy. Potential Mechanism(s) of Action of VNS for Depression. Efficacy and Tolerability of VNS for Depression. Other Emerging Uses. The Place of VNS in the Current Treatment of Epilepsy. Practical Aspects of VNS: Questions and Answers.
Biography
Steven C Schachter MD (Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Director of Research Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA, USA), Dieter Schmidt MD (Emeritus Professor of Neurology, Epilepsy Research Group, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
"…Some of the best clinical investigators in the field have written chapters in this book with impeccable literary and technical finesse."
-New England Journal of Medicine
