The Brainstem

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-443-15736-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 445 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 276 mm

This volume on Brainstem consolidates research for a complete understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the Brainstem and how it affects assorted other systems in the body. The brainstem impacts breathing, the gastrointestinal system, the cardiac system, mood, pain, wakefulness, consciousness, and sleep. Pathologies can impact vision, motor control, hearing, balance, blood supply and is particularly involved in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s. The volume discusses how the brainstem operates in full health, pathologies associated with the brainstem and their impact, methods for monitoring brainstem function, and diagnosis and treatment of brainstem disorders. Monitoring and intervention is reliant on technologies to assess function. This volume will include CT, MRI, USG, angiography, BERA, and functional imaging.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Grinberg, Lea Tenenholz

Korczyn, Amos D.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pathologie, Cytopathologie, Histopathologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1. Physiology and semiology
1. History of the brainstem - a developing concept throughout the history of medicine
2. Structural and Functional anatomy of the Brainstem
3. Autonomic Blood pressure control
4. Emotion
5. Brainstem in pain control
6. Wakefulness, consciousness and sleep

Section 2. Pathology

7. Locked-in syndrome
8. The vestibular system, equilibrium, and vertigo
9. Oculomotor disorders, nystagmus (all causes)
10. Pupillary disorders
11. Neurodevelopmental brainstem syndromes
12. Intrinsic Pontine Tumors: Pathology of brainstem tumors and Exploration of DIPG
13. Autoimmune maladies of the brainstem
14. Dysarthria
15. Brainstem in neurodegenerative diseases
16. Brainstem vascular syndromes
17. Traumatic brain injury in the brainstem

Section 3. Monitoring and Intervention
18. Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brainstem
19. Ultrasound studies of brainstem
20. Anatomical imaging: angiography
21. Brainstem evoked responses
22. Functional and molecular brainstem imaging
23. Brain death and the brain stem

Über Autor(innen)

Korczyn, Amos D.
Professor Korczyn graduated from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem in 1966 (MD), where he also received an MSc degree in pharmacology (cum laude) in 1966. He trained in neurology at Beilinson Hospital and at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London. He was the Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the Tel-Aviv Medical Center from 1981 until 2002, and the incumbent of the Sieratzki Chair of Neurology at Tel-Aviv University, 1995-2010. Professor Korczyn has a particular interest in neurodegenerative diseases. He has authored or co-authored over 700 articles in peer-reviewed journals, edited several books and is Regional Editor of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. He is or has been an Editorial Board member of 20 international journals, and organized several neurological conferences, mainly in the field of dementia, Parkinson's disease and other degenerative brain disorders, as well as CONy - the International Congress on Controversies in Neurology, and has organized the Mental Dysfunction in Parkinson's disease congresses since 1993. Professor Korczyn served on advisory boards in several drug discovery programs.

Professor Korczyn is the Chairman of the Scientific Medical Board of the Israeli Alzheimer's disease association (EMDA), member of the SAB of Alzheimer Disease International (ADI), and has been the chairman of the WFN Research Committee for Clinical Neuropharmacology. Professor Korczyn is an honorary member of the neurological societies of Israel, Serbia, Poland, Russia, and Romania.

Grinberg, Lea Tenenholz
Dr. Lea Tenenholz Grinberg is a neuropathologist specializing in brain aging and associated disorders, most notably, Alzheimer's and neurological basis of sleep disturbances in neurodegenerative diseases. Currently, she is a Full Professor and a John Douglas French Alzheimer's Foundation Endowed Professor at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, part of the Executive Board of the Global Brain Health Institute and member of the Medical Scientific Advisory Group for the Alzheimer Association. She is also a Professor of Pathology at the University of Sao Paulo.

In 2003, Dr. Grinberg was among the founders of a brain bank in São Paulo, focusing on brain aging. This brain bank which she had since developed into an extremely prolific and highly-regarded institution, helped Dr. Grinberg prove that, contrary to what has been accepted previously, the brainstem and not the cortex, harbors the first detectable neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease. In 2009, she was the recipient of the UNESCO-L'Oréal Award "For Women in Science," and in 2010 she received the John Douglas French Alzheimer Foundation "Distinguished Research Scholar Award." Currently, Dr. Grinberg is the Co-Leader of the UCSF/Neurodegenerative Disease Brain Bank, where she conducts neuropathological diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases. She also directs the Human Biology Validation Core for the NIH/U54 Tau Centers Without Walls, is a principal investigator from the Tau