Brain Hypothermia

1. Brain Injury Mechanisnn.- Enhanced Neuronal Damage in Severely Brain-Injured Patients by Hypothalamus, Pituitary, and Adrenal Axis Neurohormonal Changes.- 2. Pathophysiology of Hypothermia.- Molecular System Controlling Mammalian Hibernation with Circannual Rhythm.- 3. Basic Research of Hypothernnia Treatment.- Therapeutic Hypothermia in Experimental Models of Traumatic Brain Injury.- Mild Hypothermia Amelioration of Damage During Rat Spinal Cord Injury: Inhibition of Pathological Microglial Proliferation and Improvement of Hind-limb Motor Function.- Local Cooling: Limits on Secondary Injury and Neuronal Death Following Spinal Cord Injury.- Effect of Intraischemic Hypothermia on Expression of c-Fos, c-Jun, and HSP72 After Transient Focal Cerebral Ischemia in Rat Brain.- Neuroprotective Effect of Mild Hypothermia in Experimental Brain Ischemia.- 4. Clinical Studies of Brain Hypothermia.- a. Mechanism.- Spontaneous Cerebral Hypothermia After Severe Head Injury: Relation with Brain Chemistry and Cerebrovascular Parameters.- Effect of Therapeutic Moderate Hypothermia on Extracellular and CSF Intermediates of Secondary Brain Injury.- Significance of Electrophysiologic Studies in Brain Hypothermia.- Mapping Analysis of Brain Tissue Temperature by Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Bacteria Detected and the Pharmacokinetics of Antibiotics During Brain Hypothermia.- The Clinical Issue and Effectiveness of Brain Hypothermia Treatment for Severely Brain-Injured Patients.- Development and Status of Hypothermia for Brain Injury: National Acute Brain Injury Study: Hypothermia.- Intravascular Volume Expansion During Therapeutic Moderate Hypothermia for Brain-Injured Patients: Preliminary Report.- Treatment of Hyperacute Embolic Stroke with Major Cerebral Artery Occlusion by Mild Hypothermia.- Mild Hypothermia Therapy for Severe Acute Brain Insults in Clinical Practice.- Combined Therapy of Local Intraarterial Thrombolysis and Brain Hypothermia for Acute Occlusion of the Cerebral Main Trunk Arteries.- Mild Hypothermia for Cerebral Resuscitation in Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Ventricular Fibrillation.- New Hypothermia Method Using Blood Cooling System: MONAN and KANEM Method.- 5. Panel Discussion.- Panel Discussion.- 6. Summary.- Summary.