Canavero, Sergio,  1964- <br/><br/>
Central pain syndrome :  pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management / 
Sergio Canavero, Vincenzo Bonicalzi. 
 - Second edition. 
 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press,  2011. 
 - 1 online resource (xvii, 378 pages) :  digital, PDF file(s). 
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<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780511845673 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Central pain.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC368  / .C36 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616/.0472