Neurosurgery for Spasticity (PDF)

Marc Sindou, MD and DSc, DHC, is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Lyon, France. He received his PhD degree on "Electrophysiological generators of the cerebral cortex in Humans" and his MD degree on "Dorsal Root Entry Zone as a target for pain surgery", in the seventies. After his neurosurgical training, he benefited from two Fellowships, first in Micro-neurosurgery in Kantonspital in Zurich with Pr. Gazi Yasargil, then for Functional Neurosurgery in MGH and Harvard University in Boston with Pr. William Sweet. Medical activity in Lyon was then directed to: 1) Functional Neurosurgery of Pain, Spasticity in Adults and Children, Epilepsy and Trigeminal Neuralgias; 2) Microsurgery of Giant Aneurysms, Meningiomas, Venous sinus repair and Cranial Nerve Vascular Compression Syndromes; 3) Neurophysiology applied to Neurosurgery. Surgical activity, together with his superb team and pupils, amounted at twenty-five thousands surgeries over a forty-year period of time. Medical and scientific experience has been published in 709 articles, 43 book-chapters and 7 books, and also through 185 invited-comments or editorials in International Journals. His Research Gate score is 47.60 (i.e, higher than 97.5 % of RG members), with h-index of 53 and h-index excluding self-citations of 48. He was a Founding member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (1976), the President of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (1997-2001), a Vice-president of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (1999-2003), a European Teacher in the EANS Training Committee (1985-2014), the President of the French Speaking Neurosurgical Society (2007-2010). He is currently Co- Chairman of the Committee for "Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery" of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. He delivered 331 invited-lectures in 59 different foreign countries. Among many international distinctions, he was awarded the European Lecture by the