Format:
1 online resource (115 pages)
ISBN:
9781849960656
Content:
This concise, practical book, edited by two key international movement disorder experts offers a comprehensive overview of the diagnosis, treatment and management of common and rarer movement disorders.
Content:
Intro -- Movement Disorders in Clinical Practice -- Contents -- Author biographies -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Parkinson's disease -- Introduction -- Epidemiology, incidence, and prevalence -- Risk factors -- Genetic factors -- Pathophysiology -- Symptoms and signs -- The motor disorder -- Useful clinical assessments -- The nonmotor symptom complex -- Confirmation of diagnosis -- Management of Parkinson's disease -- The PDLIFE study -- Levodopa -- COMT inhibitors -- Monoamine oxidase type B inhibitors -- Dopamine receptor agonists -- Apomorphine -- Anticholinergics -- Amantadine -- Neuroprotection -- Stereotactic thalamotomy and deep brain stimulation -- Transplant therapies -- Glial-cell-line-derived neurotropic factor -- Retinal cell transplantation -- Nondopaminergic drug therapy -- Specialist nursing care -- Physiotherapy -- Occupational therapy -- Speech and language therapy -- Palliative care -- Cost of care -- Mortality and prognosis -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Parkinsonian syndromes -- Introduction -- Neurodegeneration-linked parkinsonism -- Multiple system atrophy -- Progressive supranuclear palsy -- Dementia with Lewy bodies -- Corticobasal degeneration -- Vascular pseudoparkinsonism -- Other parkinsonian syndromes -- Postencephalitic parkinsonism -- Dopa-responsive dystonia -- Wilson's disease -- Juvenile Huntington's disease -- Management -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Dystonia -- Definition -- Classification -- Location -- Cervical dystonia (spasmodic torticollis) -- Blepharospasm -- Writer's cramp -- Spasmodic dysphonia -- Hemifacial spasm -- Pathophysiology -- Primary dystonia -- Secondary dystonia -- Heredodegenerative dystonia -- Dystonia-plus syndromes -- Drug-induced dystonia -- Epidemiology -- Genetics -- DYT1 -- GCH1 -- Lubag -- Signs and symptoms -- History and investigations.
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Additional Edition:
9781849960649
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781849960649
Language:
English
