Table 1.

Target diseases of neurosurgery in Japan

Cerebral vascular disorders Moyamoya disease Sturge-Weber syndrome Spinal cord disorders yringomyelia Myelomeningocele Functional disorders (1) Epilepsy Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis Lennox-Gastaut syndrome Epilepsy with myoclonic absences West syndrome Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy syndrome Epilepsy with continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep (2) Parkinson’s disease (3) Dystonia Hereditary dystonia 4 Brain malformation Hemimegalencephaly Focal cortical dysplasia Neural migration disorders Tuberous sclerosis complex