Neurologic Disease in Women

by Kaplan, Peter W.

• ISBN13: 9781888799859
• ISBN10: 1888799854
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Demos Medical Pub

Summary

Although there appears to be a general understanding that the human brain functions similarly in women and in men, an increasing body of knowledge indicates that neuronal connectivity, recruitment, and disease patterns exhibit gender differences. There ar

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Contributors	xv
I GENERAL ISSUES IN WOMEN
Gender Differences in Diseases of the Nervous System	3	(12)
Joan C. Amatniek
Lauren C. Frey
W. Allen Hauser
Sex Differences in Regional Brain Structure and Function	15	(12)
Susan M. Resnick
Women's Lives and Their Experiences with Health Care	27	(14)
Aileen MacLaren
Nancy Fugate Woods
Drug Treatments and Trials in Women	41	(22)
Stephen D. Silberstein
Reproductive and Metabolic Disorders with AED Use	63	(12)
Martha Morrell
Effect of Ovarian Hormones on the Nervous System	75	(16)
Pavel Klein
Donald L. Schomer
Genetic Neurologic Disorders in Females	91	(24)
Orest Hurko
Women, Law, and Neurologic Disease	115	(12)
H. Richard Beresford
II LIFE STAGES AND NEUROLOGIC DISEASE EXPRESSION IN WOMEN
Neurologic Disease in Girls	127	(20)
S. Lane Rutledge
Holly Mussell
Menstruation and Pregnancy: Interactions with Neurologic Disease	147	(4)
James O. Donaldson III
Obstetric Issues in Women with Neurologic Diseases	151	(18)
Errol R. Norwitz
John T. Repke
The Menopausal Transition: Changing Physiology, Symptoms, and Hormone Therapy	169	(16)
Nancy Fugate Woods
Frailty in Elderly Women	185	(16)
E. Jeffrey Metter
III NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS IN WOMEN
Migraine	201	(18)
Ramesh Khurana
Seizures and Epilepsy in Women	219	(16)
Martha Morrell
Eclampsia	235	(12)
Peter W. Kaplan
Cerebrovascular Disease in Women	247	(18)
Rafael S. Llinas
Carla J. Weisman
Multiple Sclerosis	265	(18)
P. K. Coyle
Mustafa Hammad
Optic Neuritis	283	(14)
Neil R. Miller
Peripheral Nerve Disease in Women	297	(18)
Alan R. Moore
E. Wayne Massey
Janice M. Massey
Muscle Disease in Women	315	(20)
James M. Gilchrist
Neurologic Presentations of Autoimmune Disorders in Women	335	(14)
Michelle Petri
Gender Differences in Movement Disorders	349	(6)
Yvette M. Bordelon
Stanley Fahn
Chorea Gravidarum	355	(4)
Gretchen L. Birbeck
Giant Cell Arteritis	359	(8)
David B. Hellmann
The Neurologic Basis of Common Pelvic Floor Disorders	367	(12)
Linda Brubaker
J. Thomas Benson
Infections of the Nervous System in Women	379	(8)
David N. Irani
Neuro-oncological Diseases in Women	387	(6)
Alessandro Olivi
John J. Laterra
Pseudomotor Cerebri	393	(18)
Neil R. Miller
Alzheimer Disease in Women	411	(8)
Julene K. Johnson
Kristine Yaffe
Psychiatric Disorders in Women	419	(26)
Angela S. Guarda
Karen L. Swartz
Nonepileptic, Psychogenic, and Hysterical Seizures	445	(10)
Allan Krumholz
Tricia Ting
Index	455