Brain-Stem Localization and Function

✍ Scribed by L. R. Caplan (auth.), Prof. Dr. Louis R. Caplan, Prof. Dr. Hanns Christian Hopf (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The localization of small vascular lesions within the brain-stem is the focal point of this volume which correlates clinical examination, evoked potentials, brain-stem reflexes and imaging techniques in one overview. For the first time, a group of experts has been brought together to summarize the various methods for detecting functional disturbances of specialized structures, to correlate these findings with morphologic criteria (MRI) and, finally, to elaborate patterns of abnormal findings which are characteristic of small brain-stem lesions. You are thus informed about neuro-physiological techniques which are superior to imaging techniques in local brain-stem pathology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Rules for Correlating Posterior Circulation Brain and Vascular Lesions....Pages 3-15
Contribution of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to the Diagnosis of Brain-Stem and Cerebellar Infarcts....Pages 17-22
Multifocal Ischemic Brain-Stem Lesions....Pages 23-31
Craniocaudal Disintegration of Neurophysiological Findings in Progressive Coma....Pages 33-44
Bilateral Thalamic Infarction: A Contribution to Coma Analysis....Pages 45-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Topical Signs of Cerebellar Disease....Pages 51-67
Is Saccadic Lateropulsion in Wallenberg’s Syndrome Caused by a Cerebellar or a Brain-Stem Lesion?....Pages 69-73
Paroxysmal Ataxia and Dysarthria with a Single Lesion in the Cerebellar Peduncle....Pages 75-78
Preliminary Classification of Vestibular Brain-Stem Disorders....Pages 79-91
Elektronystagmography: The Answers One Might Get....Pages 93-99
Vertigo, Masseter Paresis or Masseter Reflex Abnormality, and Impaired Caloric Response....Pages 101-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Oculomotor Syndromes in Rostral Brain-Stem Lesions....Pages 107-118
The Internuclear Ophthalmoplegias....Pages 119-132
Isolated Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia Following Head Injury: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Neurophysiologic Findings....Pages 133-137
Nuclear and Fascicular Oculomotor Nerve Lesions in Brain-Stem Infarcts: A Clinicomorphological Study....Pages 139-145
A Case Report Illustrating the Brain-Stem Anatomy of Horizontal Eye Movements....Pages 147-152
The Oculo-auricular Phenomenon in Brain-Stem Disease....Pages 153-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Correlation of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials and Somatosensory Findings in Patients with Brain-Stem Lesions....Pages 161-164
Functional Anatomy of the Spinal Trigeminal Nucleus....Pages 165-173
Somatosensory Evoked Potentials After Trigeminal Stimulation in the Diagnosis of Brain-Stem Lesions....Pages 175-183
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Diagnostic Value of Trigeminal SEP and the Jaw-Opening Reflex in Brain-Stem Lesions....Pages 185-190
The Masseter Reflex in the Topodiagnosis of Brain-Stem Lesions....Pages 191-197
The Masseter Inhibitory Reflex in Pontine Lesions....Pages 199-206
Diagnostic Localizing Value of the Electrically Elicited Blink Reflex....Pages 207-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Magnetically Evoked Corticofacial Potentials of Orbicularis Oculi Muscle Conditioned by the Electrical Blink Reflex....Pages 219-224
Facial Myokymia in Brain-Stem Disorders....Pages 225-232
Persistent Tonic Facial Contraction: A Local Brain-Stem Sign....Pages 233-236
One-and-a-half Syndrome and Facial Palsy of Peripheral Type: A Rare Brain-Stem Syndrome....Pages 237-241
The Stapedial Reflex in Pontine Lesions....Pages 243-250
Taste Distrubance Associated with Paramedian Posterior Thalamo-Subthalamic Artery Syndrome....Pages 251-255
Back Matter....Pages 257-260

✦ Subjects

Neurology; Neurosurgery; Neurosciences