Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis and Clinical Management

Framsida
Stewart A. Factor, William J. Weiner
Demos, 1 jan. 2002 - 685 sidor
Parkinson's disease (PD) is is the second most common neurodegenerative disease. As the population of the industrialized world ages the impact of this disease on clinical neurology will expand. The growing literature regarding PD reflects this phenomenon. The time is now appropriate for a comprehensive text on PD that provides the reader with an up-to-date review on the multiple aspects of the disease and puts them into perspective. The scholarly contributions from many of the leading researchers in the field has made such a text a reality. This book will be useful to movement disorder specialists, general neurologists and neurology residents, gerontologists, neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, and neuroscience researchers. The text provides both theoretical and practical approaches to PD.

This book is organized to provide a comprehensive view of PD. Sections cover clinical aspects, behavioral and psychiatric manifestations, pathology and neurochemistry, diagnosis, etiology and pathogenesis, drugs, treatment issues, surgery, subtypes of parkinsonism, and social issues.

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William J. Weiner, M.D., is the director of the Maryland Parkinson's Disease Center, a professor of neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the author of numerous books and papers on Parkinson's disease. Lisa M. Shulman, M.D., is an associate professor of neurology at the University of Maryland and the Rosalyn Newman Distinguished Scholar in Parkinson's Disease. She is the editor-in-chief of the American Academy of Neurology Patient Books Series. Anthony E. Lang, M.D., F.R.C.P., is a professor of neurology and holds the Jack Clark Chair in Parkinson's Disease Research at the University of Toronto. He is the director of the Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorders Center at Toronto Western Hospital, as well as the past editor of the journal Movement Disorders and the president-elect of the Movement Disorders Society.

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