Format:
Online-Ressource (XXXII, 390p. 71 illus, digital)
ISBN:
9781461406532
Series Statement:
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 724
Content:
The information presented in this book on NDs will stimulate expert and novice researchers in the field. If offers excellent overviews of the current status of research and pointers to future research goals to help treat the problems raised by these diseases
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Description based upon print version of record
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Title Page; Copyright Page; DEDICATION; PREFACE; ABOUT THE EDITOR...; PARTICIPANTS; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; IN MEMORIAM; CHAPTER 1 ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; INTRODUCTION; INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND ACQUIRED CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEMYELINATING DISORDERS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTING; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; CSF Analysis; Serum Testing; Visual Testing; CLINICAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC PREDICTORS OF THE RISK TO DEVELOP MS AFTER AN INITIAL DEMYELINATING EVENT; TREATMENT; Steroids; PROGNOSIS
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Neurocognitive FunctioningCONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2 AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; INTRODUCTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NORMAL ANATOMY; AMD AND THE RETINA; SYMPTOMS OF AMD; CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF AMD; Management of Wet AMD; Management of Dry AMD; Management of End-Stage AMD; PROGNOSIS OF AMD; Wet AMD; Dry AMD; PATHOLOGY OF AMD; Drusen Formation; Lipofuscin Accumulation; Inflammation; Oxidative Stress; VEGF; Choroidal Ischaemia; Alteration in Transport; Structural Defects; AMD AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; Amyloid and Activation of the Immune System; Apolipoprotein
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ONGOING RESEARCH AND ANTICIPATED DEVELOPMENTSCONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3 ARACHNOID CYSTS; INTRODUCTION; Pathogenesis; NATURAL BEHAVIOUR OF ARACHNOID CYSTS; MECHANISMS OF CYST-GROWTH; Active Fluid Secretion; Osmotic Gradient; Valve Mechanism; Other Mechanisms Leading to Clinical Symptoms; CLINICAL SYMPTOMS; Temporal and Sylvian Arachnoid Cysts; Intraventricular Arachnoid Cysts; Cerebellopontine Angle and Retrocerebellar Arachnoid Cysts; Supra- and Intrasellar Arachnoid Cysts; Spinal Arachnoid Cysts; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES; INDICATION FOR TREATMENT; TREATMENT; CONCLUSION
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REFERENCESCHAPTER 4 AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS: Information for Pediatricians Supporting Families of Young Children on the Spectrum; INTRODUCTION; PREVALENCE OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; ETIOLOGY; Resources on ASD Prevalence and Etiology; EARLY DIAGNOSIS: SCREENING OF 'RED FLAGS'; Red Flags Noted by Parents; Autism Screening Resources; DIAGNOSIS: GETTING IT RIGHT; Core Symptom Domains: Expression in Toddlers; Social Skills and Communication; Stereotypic and Repetitive Behaviours; Resources for Parents: ASD Core Symptom Domains; FIRST STEPS INTO EARLY INTERVENTION; Intervention Components
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IntensityParent vs Clinician Implemented Intervention; Resources for Parents and Caregivers: Intervention; THE IMPACT OF ASD ON THE FAMILY; Parental Stress and Functioning; Importance of Reliable Sources; Resources for Parents and Caregivers: Supports; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5 AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH NEUROPATHY; INTRODUCTION; THE MOST PREVALENT AR-CMT FORMS; CMT4A, CMT2K and AR-CMT2K: the GDAP1-Associated Neuropathies; CMT4C, a Common Neuropathy in Several Populations; THE MOST SEVERE AR-CMT FORMS; CMT4B1 and CMT4B2, the Myotubularin Disorders
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CMT4E, a Congenital Hypomelinating Neuropathy
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Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis / Joy B. Parrish and E. Ann Yeh -- Age related macular degeneration / Sam Khandhadia, Jocelyn Cherry, and Andrew John Lotery -- Arachnoid cysts / Thomas Westermaier, Tilmann Schweitzer, and Ralf Ingo Ernestus -- Autism spectrum disorders : information for pediatricians supporting families of young children on the spectrum / Stephanie Patterson, Veronica Smith, and Michaela Jelen -- Autosomal recessive charcot marie tooth neuropathy / Carmen Espinós ... [et al.] -- Creutzfeldt Jakob disease / Beata Sikorska ... [et al.] -- Epigenetics in autism and other neurodevelopmental diseases / Kunio Miyake ... [et al.] -- Epilepsy and epileptic syndrome / Tomonori Ono and Aristea S. Galanopoulou -- Frontotemporal lobar degeneration / Enrico Premi, Alessandro Padovani, and Barbara Borroni -- Gerstmann Straussler Scheinker disease / Pawe P. Liberski -- Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses / Shiyao Wang -- Kuru : the first prion disease / Pawe P. Liberski, Beata Sikorska, and Paul Brown -- Leukodystrophies / Seth J. Perlman and Soe Mar -- Machado Joseph disease and other rare autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxias / Antoni Matilla Dueñas
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Neurodegenerations induced by organophosphorous compounds / Alan J. Hargreaves -- Mitochondrial importance in Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's diseases / Sonia C. Correia ... [et al.] -- Multiple Sclerosis / Elbieta Miller -- Myotonic dystrophy type 1 or Steinert's disease / Vincenzo Romeo -- Neurodegeneration in diabetes mellitus / Hiroyuki Umegaki -- Neurofibromatoses / Erik J. Uhlmann and Scott R. Plotkin -- Oxidative stress in developmental brain disorders / Masaharu Hayashi, Rie Miyata, and Naoyuki Tanuma -- Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in Down syndrome / Giovanni Pagano and Giuseppe Castello -- Pick's disease / Naoya Takeda, Yuki Kishimoto, and Osamu Yokota -- Premature aging syndrome / Fabio Coppedè -- The Savant syndrome and its possible relationship to epilepsy / John R. Hughes -- Sjogren Larsson syndrome / Lívia Almeida Dutra ... [et al.] -- The spinocerebellar ataxias : clinical aspects and molecular genetics / Antoni Matilla Dueñas ... [et al.] -- Tourette syndrome / Andrea E. Cavanna and Cristiano Termine.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781461406525
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. ISBN 978-1-461-40652-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4614-0653-2
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