A pre-symposium round table discussion concerning methods of neurorehabilitation will be held on July 10, 2002 at the Chiba Ryogo Center, Chiba (optional). The main Symposium will be held on July 11 and 12, 2002 at the OKURA Hotel-Tokyo-Bay (former Dai-ichi Hotel-Tokyo-Bay), Tokyo Disney Resort.

English only. In order to facilitate better understanding among the audience from the Society for Treatment of Coma (Japan), the organizers request speakers at the International Symposium to utilize video presentations.

Movement disorders / Spasticity / Paraplegia / Bladder dysfunction / Pain / Epilepsy / Speech and cognitive disturbances / Prolonged coma and persistent vegetative state

The 2nd International Symposium on Neurosurgical Re-engineering of the Damaged Brain and Spinal Cord is an official scientific meeting of the Neurorehabilitation Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) that is scheduled to take place at the Tokyo Disney Resort, as a joint symposium with the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Treatment of Coma, Japan (STC). This symposium represents a follow-up event to the 1st International Symposium on Neurosurgical Rehabilitation that was successfully held in Muenster, Westphalia, Germany in 2000, and highlighted the important role played by neurosurgeons in early and comprehensive neurorehabilitation.

・To identify the role of neurosurgeons and neurosurgical techniques in early and comprehensive
neurorehabilitation
・To determine strategies that can facilitate the patient's functional recovery through a multi
-disciplinary approach in early neurorehabilitation
・To review the recent advances in neurosurgical techniques which contribute to the patient's
functional recovery from neurological deficits

Edwin Cooper, Virginia, USA: Electrical Treatment of Coma via the Median Nerve
Yukihiko Kayama, Fukushima, Japan: Mechanism of Sleep and Awake Cycle
Juei-Jueng Lin, Taiwan: Fetal VM grafting along or cografting with striatum in Parkinson,s patient
Wai Poon, Hong Kong, China: Early Neurorehabilitation on TBI - is it cost-effective and sustained?
Ali R. Rezai, Cleveland, USA: Deep Brain Stimulation and Functional Brain Imaging
Yoshiro Takaoka, Cleveland, USA: Electrical Stimulation for Bladder Dysfunction
Klaus von Wild, Muenster, Germany: New Development of Neurorehabilitation in Neurosurgery
(unsettled): Neurological Applications of Implanted Drug Pump
The others