Vagus Nerve Stimulation, Second Edition

This comprehensive handbook presents a timely, practical, clinically relevant and focused discussion of vagus nerve stimulation in a readily understood and well-illustrated format. Its clinical approach to the treatment of patients with medically intractable seizures provides the attending neurologist with step-by-step information to this exciting and new method of treating epilepsy. This second edition also includes actual footage of the implantation procedure and the latest research findings on vagus nerve stimulation as a potential treatment for depression and obesity. Book jacket.