Cortical Neuroplasticity after Focused Peripheral Radiation: Longitudinal Effects of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Classic Trigeminal Neuralgia

• Main Authors: Peter Shih-Ping Hung (Author), Alborz Noorani (Author), Jia Y. Zhang (Author), Mojgan Hodaie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction/Aim: Classic trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a severe chronic neuropathic facial pain disorder that, despite frequently being linked to microstructural changes within trigeminal nerve root entry zone, has well-documented cortical thickness alterations. These alterations occur in brain regi...