PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE OF MOVEMENT DISORDERS (Textbook with DVD)

by Fahn, Stanley; Jankovic, Joseph; Hallett, Mark (CON); Jenner, Peter (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780443079412
• ISBN10: 0443079412
• Edition: CD
• Format: Book w/Video
• Copyright: 2007-09-07
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div

Summary

This practical, clinical reference from the two leading movement disorder experts focuses on the problems of diagnosing and managing all movement disorders. It features descriptions of the disorders, rating scales for clinical research, neurochemistry, clinical pharmacology, genetics, clinical trials, and experimental therapeutics. An accompanying 2-hour videotape contains several hundred video clips with narration that illustrates the manifestations of various movement disorders and their differential diagnoses. Uses a reader-friendly format, with diagrams, photographs, and tables, to make reference quick and easy. Includes a CD-ROM containing several hundred video clips with voice narration, keyed to the text, to help you diagnose movement disorders. Gives you just the information you need for the clinical approach to diagnosis and management, with minimal emphasis on basic science.

Table of Contents

Overview Section

Anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of basal ganglia

Overview of movement disorders

Diagnostic evaluations of movement disorders

Section on Hypokinetic Disorders

Concept, clinical features and DDx of parkinsonism

Cause(s) of Parkinson's disease

Medical treatment of PD

Surgical treatment of PD

Treatment of non-motor problems of PD

Parkinsonism-plus syndromes

Gait disorders

Stiff-person syndrome, spasticity and other syndromes of continuous motoneuron activity

Section on Hyperkinetic Disorders

Dystonia

Treatment of dystonia

Huntington's disease

Chorea, Ballism and Athetosis

Tics

Stereotypies

Tremor and Myorhythmia

Drug-induced Mov. Disord. incl Tardive Dyskinesia Syndromes

Myoclonus and startle syndromes

Hereditary ataxias

Paroxysmal dyskinesias

Peripheral and Miscellaneous Movement Disorders (includes restless legs and abdominal dyskinesias)

Wilson's disease

Psychogenic movement disorders

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