Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Neurosurgery

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: M. Krieg, Sandro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neuroradiology.; Neurology.; Neurosurgery.; Neuropsychology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This book is the first comprehensive work summarizing the advances that have been made in the neurosurgical use of navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) over the past ten years. Having increasingly gained acceptance as a presurgical mapping modality in neurosurgery, today it is widely u...

Table of Contents:

• Basic principles of nTMS
• nTMS motor mapping
• Basic principles and clinical use
• Fiber tracking
• Risk stratification
• nTMS language mapping
• Basic principles and clinical use
• Fiber tracking
• Risk stratification
• Other brain functions
• Therapeutic applications in neurosurgery
• Pain
• Paresis
• Special aspects on nTMS in children
• Outlook on the potential of nTMS
• Integration of functional data in the clinical workflow
• Methodological advantages and disadvantages of nTMS compared to MEG and fMRI.