Ideal for the internist, general practitioner, or family medicine physician, the updated Fifth Edition of this book provides a practical, non-specialist's perspective on today's neurology. The book's straightforward clinical guidance addresses the diagnosis and management of all disorders affecting the central and peripheral nervous system - preparing you for the clinical scenarios you face in daily practice.

Neurology for the Non Neurologist

Medical Books

Weiner, William J.

Medicine

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

This volume is the first comprehensive clinical reference on the behavioral manifestations of movement disorders. The book examines the cognitive and behavioral alterations observed in patients with a wide variety of movement disorders, including Parkinson's disease, other akinetic rigid syndromes, Wilson's disease, Huntington's disease, and Tourette's syndrome. Coverage includes both current theories of why basal ganglia dysfunction produces behavioral disorders and practical guidelines for managing patients with these problems.The opening chapters review the role of the basal ganglia in behavior and describe the behavioral effects of specific focal lesions in the basal ganglia. The contributors then discuss the wide range of behavioral disturbances seen in Parkinson's disease, including personality alterations, early and late cognitive changes, depression, and drug-induced behavioral states. Other chapters delineate the behavioral problems observed in other akinetic rigid syndromes and the psychiatric and behavioral abnormalities seen in Wilson's disease.Close attention is given to the cognitive and behavioral changes that occur in Huntington's disease and to the psychological effects of presymptomatic testing in individuals at risk for Huntington's disease. A chapter on psychogenic movement disorders examines the associated psychopathology and details strategies for evaluation and treatment. Also included is an in-depth discussion of the psychiatric factors predisposing to the development of tardive dyskinesia in patients treated with neuroleptic drugs.The section on Tourette's syndrome examines the full range of associated behavioral abnormalities, including attention deficit disorder, sensory phenomena, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The contributors also address the controversy as to whether Tourette's syndrome is a broad behavioral spectrum disorder, or whether only certain behavioral abnormalities are true manifestations of the Tourette's genotype. The book concludes with a broad discussion of psychological problems in patients with dystonia.This volume is an essential reference for all neurologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists. It also offers valuable guidance to primary care physicians who observe behavioral symptoms in patients with movement disorders.

Behavioral Neurology of Movement Disorders (Advances in Neurology)

Raven Pr

Parkinson's Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

In recent years, new treatments have vastly improved the lives of people with Parkinson's disease, substantially reducing symptoms and significantly delaying disability. Maintaining good quality of life with Parkinson's disease means understanding the disorder, developing effective coping skills, and making educated choices among an array of treatment options.
Written by leading authorities on movement and neurological disorders, this comprehensive book provides up-to-date information on symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and management of Parkinson's disease to help people cope with medical, emotional, and practical challenges. Texts, illustrations, and tables provide detailed information on the use of medications as well as diet, exercise, and complementary therapies and surgery. 
Topics include:
 • Symptoms of Parkinson's disease and related movement disorders
 • Q&amp;A section addressing the most commonly asked questions
 • Drug treatments
 • Diet, exercise, and complementary therapies 
 • New surgical therapies
 • The practical issues of insurance, employment, health care choices, and coping
 • Information on medication side effects
 Parkinson's Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families helps those who are living with Parkinson's disease make healthy adjustments to profound life changes, develop expertise in self-monitoring and self-management, and become effective partners in shared decision making with family members and medical professionals.

Shulman, Lisa M.

Lang, Anthony E.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Johns Hopkins University Press

Recent innovations, including deep brain stimulation and new medications, have significantly improved the lives of people with Parkinson’s disease. Nevertheless, medical, emotional, and physical challenges remain. The second edition of this accessible and comprehensive guide provides crucial information for managing this complex condition, including details on the use of medications, diet, exercise, complementary therapies, and surgery. The second edition includes new information about:• The genetic and hereditary pattern of the disease• Medications and uses of established medications• Other approaches to treating the symptoms of Parkinson’s• Juvenile-onset Parkinson’s disease • Normal pressure hydrocephalus• The effects of fluctuating hormones on disease symptoms• Fetal cell transplants and porcine cell transplants• The nutritional supplement Co-Enzyme Q10

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Recent innovations, including deep brain stimulation and new medications, have significantly improved the lives of people with Parkinson’s disease. Nevertheless, medical, emotional, and physical challenges remain. The second edition of this accessible and comprehensive guide provides crucial information for managing this complex condition, including details on the use of medications, diet, exercise, complementary therapies, and surgery. 
The second edition includes new information about:
• The genetic and hereditary pattern of the disease
• Medications and uses of established medications
• Other approaches to treating the symptoms of Parkinson’s
• Juvenile-onset Parkinson’s disease 
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus
• The effects of fluctuating hormones on disease symptoms
• Fetal cell transplants and porcine cell transplants
• The nutritional supplement Co-Enzyme Q10

Parkinson's Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families, Second Edition (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

The third edition incorporates findings from years of intensive research.
Recent innovations, including deep brain stimulation and new medications, have significantly improved the lives of people who have Parkinson's disease. Nevertheless, patients and families continue to face many challenges. They have long relied on this book for reliable advice about medical, emotional, and physical issues. Bringing this trusted guide up to date, three expert neurologists describe
• New understandings gained by five years of additional research on Parkinson's disease • New focus on the importance of exercise • New information about imaging techniques such as SPECT Scan and DATScan that are aiding in the diagnosis • New findings about the genetics of the disease • Promising uses of new technologies such as tablet devices for people who have trouble communicating • Information about impulse control disorders caused by some drugs used to address the symptoms of the disease • A complete update on treatments such as medications, surgery, and more

Progress in Parkinson Research

In the past five years significant progress has been made in our basic and clinical under standing of Parkinson's disease. The discovery that MPTP, a relatively simple molecule, is able to induce parkinsonism in otherwise healthy adult humans, and the recent interest in the possibility of "transplantation" procedures as a therapeutic modality in the treatment of Parkin son's disease have generated enormous interest in research related to Parkinson's disease. In this setting, the National Parkinson Foundation decided to organize a research meeting to bring together scientists actively engaged in research relevant to the study of Parkinson's disease, to accelerate its progress and to promote an exchange of ideas. This meeting took place in Janu ary 1988 at Key Biscayne, Florida. It was decided to publish the proceedings ofthis meeting to allow rapid documentation of the participants current findings and views regarding this rapidly of this volume follows the organization of the meeting and begins evolving field. The structure with a clinical and neuropathological review of current knowledge regarding Parkinson's dis ease. Since dopaminergic neurons playa major role in the pathophysiology of the disease, many of the contributions relate to some aspects of dopaminergic function including localiza tion, regulation, and pharmacology of dopamine receptors. A special effort has been made to provide a summary of the present knowledge of the cellular biology of the dopaminergic neurons.

Hefti, Franz

Springer

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. Still the only major text on the subject, the completely revised and updated second edition of Parkinson’s Disease: Diagnosis and Clinical Management comes at a time when specialists have made important advances in our understanding of the etiology, pathogenesis, investigation, and management of Parkinson’s disease. The book includes 23 completely new chapters, and has updated information on: • Genetics • Pathology • Biomarkers • Pathogenesis • Impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s disease • Updated outcome measures • Complementary and alternative medicine for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease Together, the chapters in this new edition form a comprehensive review of the many issues facing clinical neurologists, physiatrists, and PD specialists today. Lucid and easily readable from beginning to end, each chapter may also stand on its own as a scholarly review of the individual subject written by the leading world experts. Each chapter is concisely written and heavily referenced for this purpose.The second edition of Parkinson’s Disease: Diagnosis and Clinical Management provides a state-of-the-art review of where we have been, where we are now, and where we are going in the diagnosis and treatment of this disease.

Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis and Clinical Management

Demos Medical Pub

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Neurology for the Non Neurologist

Behavioral Neurology of Movement Disorders (Advances in Neurology)

Parkinson's Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Parkinson's Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Parkinson's Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Parkinson's Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families, Second Edition (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Parkinson's Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Parkinson's Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Progress in Parkinson Research

Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis and Clinical Management