Overview
Main description
The most accessible, clinically focused guide to brain mapping techniques and systems
This profusely illustrated, concise, yet detailed sourcebook enables both neurosurgeons and neurologists to map functions to specific cognitive and sensory locations in the brain. Clinical Brain Mapping takes you step by step through the methods and functional bases of the techniques, focusing on all clinical situations that require cerebral localization for diagnosis and therapeutic management.
Clinical Brain Mapping is cohesively organized into two sections: Techniques and Systems. The first section covers the full scope of methods for determining cerebral location, from the classic Wada test to the newest fMRI and magnetoencephalography procedures. In the Systems section, expert contributors offer key insights into the systems that are mapped with a multi-modality approach, covering somatomotor and somatosensory function, language, vision, hearing, and memory. The book concludes with informative chapters on specific applications of mapping techniques.
FEATURES
350 radiologic images and EEG tracings show each brain mapping technique, adding depth and clarity to chapter material
Multi-modal approach focuses on a wide array of clinical concerns and corresponding methods, including:
Operative anatomy and structural neuroimaging;
Functional MRI and magnetoencephalography;
Optical imaging;
Neuropsychological testing and the Wada test;
Extraoperative brain mapping;
Electrocorticographic spectral analysis
Table of contents
SECTION I: TECHNIQUES
Chapter 1. Surface Anatomy as a Guide to Cerebral Function
Chapter 2. Structural Imaging for Identification of Functional Brain Regions
Chapter 3. Functional MRI for Cerebral Localization: Principles and Methodology
Chapter 4. Functional MRI: Application to Clinical Practice in Surgical Planning andIntraoperative Guidance
Chapter 5. Neuropsychological Testing: Understanding Brain–behavior Relationships
Chapter 6. The Wada Test: Intracarotid Injection of Sodium Amobarbital to Evaluate Language and Memory
Chapter 7. Extraoperative Brain Mapping Using Chronically Implanted Subdural Electrodes
Chapter 8. Brain Mapping in the Operating Room
Chapter 9. Anesthesia for Brain Mapping Surgery
Chapter 10. Clinical Applications of Magnetoencephalography in Neurology and Neurosurgery
Chapter 11. Optical Spectroscopic Imaging of the Human Brain—Clinical Applications
Chapter 12. Electrocorticographic Spectral Analysis
Chapter 13. Pediatric Brain Mapping: Special Considerations
SECTION II: SYSTEMS
Chapter 14. Mapping of the Sensorimotor Cortex
Chapter 15. Mapping of Human Language
Chapter 16. Mapping of the Human Visual System
Chapter 17. Mapping of Hearing
Chapter 18. Mapping of Memory
Author comments
Daniel Yoshor, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of Epilepsy Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Eli M. Mizrahi, M.D., Professor and Chair of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
