Publication Type |
Journal Article |
School or College |
School of Medicine |
Department |
Neurosurgery |
Creator |
Couldwell, William T. |
Other Author |
Hornyak, Mark; Rovit, Richard L.; Simon, Arlene Stolper |
Title |
Irving S. Cooper and the early surgical management of movement disorders |
Date |
2001 |
Description |
Irving S. Cooper was a pioneer in the field of functional neurosurgery. During his very productive and controversial career, he proposed the surgical treatment of Parkinson disease (PD) by ligating the anterior choroidal artery to control tremor and rigidity. Subsequently, he developed seminal techniques for chemopallidectomy and cryothalamectomy for PD. He also attempted to use electrical stimulation of the cerebellum or the thalamus to treat spasticity. Cooper continued his work on brain stimulation until his death in 1985. He made video recordings of nearly all of his patients during his tenure (1977-1985) at New York Medical College. Cooper's clinical video recordings were reviewed, and selected footage was compiled into a video history of Cooper's surgical management of various movement disorders. Included are pre-, post-, and some intraoperative recordings that Cooper made to document his treatment of patients with PD, tremor, Wilson disease, cerebral palsy, chorea, dystonia musculorum deformans, and some rarer entities. |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) |
Volume |
11 |
Issue |
2 |
Subject |
Functional neurosurgery; Movement disorder; Video |
Subject LCSH |
Cooper, I. S. (Irving Spencer), 1922- ; Neurosurgeons -- Biography; Nervous system -- Surgery -- History; Movement disorders -- Surgery |
Language |
eng |
Bibliographic Citation |
Hornyak, M., Rovit, R. L., Simon, A. S., & Couldwell, W. T. (2001). Irving S. Cooper and the early surgical management of movement disorders. Neurosurgical Focus, 11(2), E6. |
Rights Management |
(c) American Association of Neurological Surgeons |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
64,719 bytes |
Identifier |
ir-main,12582 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s66t154w |
Setname |
ir_uspace |
ID |
705461 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66t154w |