Full Description
This book covers recent advances in the use of electrostimulation therapies in movement disorders, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, memory and cognition, disorders of consciousness, foot drop, dysphagia, brain injury, headache, heart failure, hearing loss, and rheumatoid arthritis. It describes techniques such as vagus nerve stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and electrical stimulation of the pharyngeal nerve.
Electroceuticals: Advances in Electrostimulation Therapies is aimed at clinicians and basic researchers in the fields of neurology, neurosurgery, cardiology and rheumatology.
Contents
The use of electroceuticals and neuromodulation in the treatment of migraine and other headaches.- VNS for Treatment of Inflammatory Joint Diseases.- Electroceutical Approaches for the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury.- Deep Brain Stimulation for movement disorders other than Parkinson's disease.- Deep Brain Stimuliaton for Parkinson Disease.- Electrical stimulation for the treatment of dysphagia.- Vagal Nerve Stimulation for the Treatment of Heart Failure.- VNS Therapy for the Treatment of Epilepsy.- VNS for the treatment of inflammatory disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.- Electrodiagnostics.- Functional Electrical Stimulation to treat foot drop as a result of an upper motor neuron lesion.- Electrical Stimulation for Modification of Memory and Cognition.- Neuromodulation of Consciousness Disorders.
