Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders
Expert Consult
- 2nd Edition - April 1, 2011
- Imprint: Saunders
- Authors: Joseph Jankovic, Mark Hallett, Stanley Fahn
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 3 1 4 1 7 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 3 7 7 - 3 7 7 0 - 7
Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders provides the complete, expert guidance you need to diagnose and manage these challenging conditions. Drs. Stanley Fahn, Joseph Ja… Read more
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Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders provides the complete, expert guidance you need to diagnose and manage these challenging conditions. Drs. Stanley Fahn, Joseph Jankovic and Mark Hallett explore all facets of these disorders, including the latest rating scales for clinical research, neurochemistry, clinical pharmacology, genetics, clinical trials, and experimental therapeutics. This edition features many new full-color images, additional coverage of pediatric disorders, updated Parkinson information, and many other valuable updates. An accompanying Expert Consult website makes the content fully searchable and contains several hundred video clips that illustrate the manifestations of all the movement disorders in the book along with their differential diagnoses.
- Get just the information you need for a clinical approach to diagnosis and management, with minimal emphasis on basic science.
- Find the answers you need quickly and easily thanks to a reader-friendly full-color format, with plentiful diagrams, photographs, and tables.
Neurology
Section I: Overview
1.
Clinical overview and phenomenology of movement disorders2.
Motor control: Physiology of voluntary and involuntary movements3.
Functional neuroanatomy of the basal gangliaSection II: Hypokinetic disorders
4.
Parkinsonism: Clinical features and differential diagnosis5.
Current concepts on the etiology and pathogenesis of Parkinson disease6.
Medical treatment of Parkinson disease7.
Surgical treatment of Parkinson disease and other movement disorders8.
Nonmotor problems in Parkinson disease9.
Atypical parkinsonism, parkinsonism-plus syndromes, and secondary parkinsonian disorders10.
Gait disorders: Pathophysiology and clinical syndromes11.
Stiffness syndromesSection III: Hyperkinetic disorders
12.
Dystonia: Phenomenology, classification, etiology, pathology, biochemistry, and genetics13.
Treatment of dystonia14.
Huntington disease15.
Chorea, ballism, and athetosis16.
Tics and Tourette syndrome17.
Stereotypies18.
Tremors19.
The tardive syndromes: Phenomenology, concepts on pathophysiology and treatment, and other neuroleptic-induced syndromes20.
Myoclonus: Phenomenology, etiology, physiology, and treatment21.
Ataxia: Pathophysiology and clinical syndromes22.
The paroxysmal dyskinesias23.
Restless legs and peripheral movement disorders24.
Wilson disease25.
Psychogenic movement disorders: Phenomenology, diagnosis, and treatmentIndex
- Edition: 2
- Published: April 1, 2011
- Imprint: Saunders
- Language: English
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Joseph Jankovic
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Neurology, Distinguished Chair in Movement Disorders, Director, Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USAMH
Mark Hallett
Affiliations and expertise
School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USASF
Stanley Fahn
Affiliations and expertise
H. Houston Merritt Professor of Neurology and Director Emeritus, Center for Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, The Neurological Institute, New York, NYRead Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders on ScienceDirect