Title | Epilepsy and the Corpus Callosum [electronic resource] / edited by Alexander G. Reeves |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1985 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2419-5 |
Descript | 550 p. 135 illus. online resource |
I. Anatomy, Development, and Physiology -- 1 Anatomy, Development, and Physiology of the Corpus Callosum -- 2 Some Observations on Trajectories and Topography of Commissural Fibers -- 3 The Organization of Somatosensory Callosal Projections: A New Interpretation -- 4 The Corpus Callosum As a Model System in the Study of Mammalian Cerebral Axons: A Comparison of Results from Primate and Rabbit -- II. Experimental Epilepsy -- 5 Effect of Anterior Two-Thirds Callosal Bisection upon Bisymmetrical and Bisynchronous Generalized Convulsions Kindled from Amygdala in Epileptic Baboon, Papio Papio -- 6 Callosal Mechanisms in Epileptogenesis: Identification of Two Distinct Kinds of Spread of Epileptic Activity -- 7 Generalized Seizure Models and the Corpus Callosum -- 8 The Role of Forebrain Commissures in Kindled Seizure Development -- III. Clinical Epilepsy -- 9 History of Forebrain Commissurotomy -- 10 Corpus Callosum Section for Intractable Epilepsy: Criteria for Patient Selection -- 11 Corpus Callosotomy: Surgical Technique -- 12 Total Corpus Callosotomy for Control of Medically Intractable Epilepsy -- 13 Selective Criteria and Results of Selective Partial Callosotomy -- 14 Anterior Callosotomy in Frontal Lobe Epilepsies -- 15 Electroencephalographic and Clinical Effects of Total Corpus Callosotomy -- 16 Corpus Callosum Section for Control of Clinically and Electroencephalographically Classified Intractable Seizures -- IV. Neuropsychology -- 17 Some Contributions of Split-Brain Studies to the Study of Human Cognition -- 18 The Frequency of Callosal Syndromes in Neurological Practice -- 19 The Integrity of Attentional Control Following Commissural Section -- 20 Bilateral Language and Commissurotomy:Interactions between the Hemispheres with and without the Corpus Callosum -- 21 Observation of Motor Control in Patients with Partial and Complete Callosal Section:Implications for Current Theories of Apraxia -- 22 An Overview of Audiological Test Results in Patients with Commissurotomy -- 23 Neuropsychological Studies on Partial Split-Brain Patients in Japan -- 24 A Remaining Problem in Hemialexia: Tachistoscopic Hemineglect and Hemialexia -- 25 Partial Frontal Callosotomy: A Neuropsychological Frontal Lobe Syndrome Detected in the Background of Improvement of Epilepsy -- 26 Hemisphere Disconnection Effects in Patients with Corpus Callosum Section -- 27 Forebrain Commissurotomy Reinstates Effects of Preexisting Hemisphere Lesions: An Examination of the Hypothesis -- 28 Neuropsychiatric Observations on Behavioral Consequences of Corpus Callosum Section for Seizure Control -- 29 Concluding Overview