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Handbook of Parkinson's Disease Therapeutics

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Rosario Moratalla, Mario Gustavo Murer
  • Language: English

Approx.409… Read more

Description

Approx.409 pages

Key features

  • Covers symptoms, diagnosis, and disease management as well as therapies
  • Discusses effects of different treatments and interventions
  • Includes deep brain stimulation, gene therapy, focused U/S and more
  • Reviews therapeutic effects on synaptic plasticity, gait, motor symptoms and more

Readership

Researchers in neuroscience, neurologists working in the field of Parkinson’s disease, researchers in pharmaceutical science. Graduate students studying neuroscience

Table of contents

1. History, milestones in PD and antiparkinsonian therapy research

2. Basal ganglia anatomy

3. Models of BG functional organization and their relevance to PD and antiparkinsonian therapy

4. PD diagnosis, motor symptoms and their pharmacological management

5. Non-motor symptoms and their pharmacological management

6. The prodromal phase of PD; prediction of diagnosis and prevention

7. Complications of L-DOPA therapy and their management

8. Neuropsychological spectrum symptoms in Parkinson disease

9. Impact of serotonergic system in L-DOPA therapeutic effect in PD

10. REM sleep behavior disorder and PD

11. Deep Brain Stimulation and other Functional Neurosurgery Approaches

12. Gene therapy and other promising new therapies

13. The search of a disease modifying treatments for PD

14. Magnetic resonance guided-focused ultrasound in Parkinson’s disease

15. Healthcare innovations and patient centered collaborative care in PD

16. non-invasive brain stimulation for freezing of gait and other PD symptoms non responsive to L-dopa

17. Imaging of nigrostriatal system/other systems/other biomarkers

18. Animal models for the study of PD pathophysiology and the predictive validity of treatments

19. Functional synaptic plasticity in PD and changes induced by antiparkinsonian therapy

20. Structural synaptic plasticity in PD and changes induced by antiparkinsonian therapy

21. Interventions on direct and indirect pathways with effects on motor symptoms and dyskinesia

22. Role of the GP in PD symptoms and therapeutics

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the editors

RM

Rosario Moratalla

Rosario Moratalla is a Professor of Neuroscience, Director of the Center of Interdisciplinary Research and Vice-Chair at the Cajal Institute, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. Dr. Moratalla‘s research interests lie on the dopaminergic system and its role in drug abuse and Parkinson’s disease. She is interested in the molecular mechanisms that modulate cellular responses in the basal ganglia motor circuit, in the context of Parkinson’s disease, L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia and impulse control disorders and drug abuse. In relationship with Parkinson's disease, her studies intend to determine the neurobiological correlates of dyskinesias induced by antiparkinsonian therapy, as well as to establish the neuronal circuits involved in non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Neuroscience, Director of the Center of Interdisciplinary Research and Vice-Chair at the Cajal Institute, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain

MM

Mario Gustavo Murer

Gustavo Murer is Professor and Chair of the Institute of Physiology and Biophysics "Bernardo Houssay" at the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine. Dr. Murer is an expert on the functional alterations that take place in the basal ganglia in Parkinson's disease and other basal ganglia related disorders. His research focuses on the electrophysiological and morphological alterations that take place in the striatum in animal models of Parkinson's disease. His recent investigations examine how chronic dopamine depletion and dopamine replacement therapy produce changes in the activity of basal ganglia neurons, which molecular mechanisms underlie these changes, and how they modify basal ganglia function and behavior.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Chair of the Institute of Physiology and Biophysics "Bernardo Houssay" at the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Fisiología y Biofísica Bernardo Houssay, Facultad de Medicina, Argentina