Central pain syndrome pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management

• Main Authors: Canavero, Sergio 1964- (Author), Bonicalzi, Vincenzo 1956- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University 2011
• Edition: SECOND EDITION
• Series: Cambridge medicine
• Subjects: Pain > physiopathology; Pain > drug therapy; Central Nervous System Diseases > drug therapy; Central Nervous System > physiopathology
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 A fully updated new edition of this definitive, unrivalled, no-nonsense textbook, Central Pain Syndrome: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management provides new treatment guidelines that aid the reader in effective management. * Encyclopedic coverage of all drug and surgical therapies, including the hot field of non-invasive and invasive cortical stimulation * 26 totally rewritten chapters include expanded sections on deep brain, spinal and other forms of stimulation, and a chapter on the efficacy of alternative and complementary medicine * Critical analysis of all current competing theories, including an expanded account of the leading dynamic reverberation theory which now incorporates a cortical attractor-based model * Clear-cut indications on drug usage, with black boxes for ineffective or dangerous drugs A classic textbook widely hailed on patients' websites, this is key reading for medical specialists and trainees in pain management, neurology, neurosurgery and anesthesiology, as well as for patients