WHAT IS FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY ?
General neurosurgery deals
with brain and spinal cord tumours, head injuries, problems in children like
hydrocephalus, surgery for spinal problems like disc prolapsed, spinal canal
stenosis etc. Functional neurosurgery includes surgery for intractable chronic
pain (including cancer pains), surgery for movement disorders like
Parkinsonism, surgery for severe spasticity of various causes, surgery for
epilepsy, surgery for psychiatric problems like depression, OCD etc. The latest
innovations in functional neurosurgery are treatment of addiction and treatment
of people in coma for some time (called persistent vegetative state).
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