The motor thalamus in neurosurgery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 146-157

  Hamani, Clement ^a   Dostrovsky, Jonathan O ^b   Lozano, Andres M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deep brain stimulation; Essential tremor; Parkinson's disease; Thalamus; Tremor; Ventralis intermediate

Indexed keywords

CEREBELLUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THALAMUS;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS;

EID: 30144441329     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000192166.62017.C1     Document Type: Review

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