Neurology category: 2138 books
Mental and Neurological Public Health
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Colin Mathers who leads the Global Burden of Disease group in WHO has confirmed that, in the 2004 GBD, 13.1% of global Daily Adjusted Life Years are attributable to mental or neurological disorders. While the proportions vary very widely from about 10% in low income countries to over 25% in high income...
Subcortical Structures and Cognition
Implications for Neuropsychological Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists are traditionally taught that cognition is mediated by the cortex and that subcortical brain regions mediate the coordination of movement. However, this argument can easily be challenged based upon the anatomic organization of the brain. The relationship...
by Alexandr Romanovich Luria
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This full-length translation of Professor Luria's book introduces to the English speaking world a major document in neuropsychology, summarizing Professor Luria's earlier contributions to that area for nearly a third of a century. It is a monumental contribution. Nothing of this scope exists in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The impaired brain has often been difficult to rehabilitate owing to limited knowledge of the brain system. Recently, advanced imaging techniques such as fMRI and MEG have allowed researchers to investigate spatiotemporal dynamics in the living human brain. Consequently, knowledge in systems neuroscience...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume is comprised of the majority of lecture presentations and a few select posters presented at the International Workshop, "Basal Ganglia and Thalamus in Health and Movement Disorders," held in Moscow, Russia, on May 29-31, 2000. The International Committee responsible for organizing...
Microglia in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Role of TTP in classical and alternative microglia activation pathway
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Internship Report from the year 2012 in the subject Medicine - Neurology, Psychiatry, Addiction, grade: 1,0, University of Ulm (Experimentelle Neurologie), language: English, abstract: Microglia activation plays a crucial role in neurodegenerative diseases. There are at least two distinct ways of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Neuroscience has long been focused on understanding neural plasticity in both development and adulthood. Experimental work in this area has focused almost entirely on plasticity at excitatory synapses. A growing body of evidence suggests that plasticity at inhibitory GABAergic and glycinergic synapses...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Written by recognized experts in the fields of neurologic surgery, neurology, physics, and radiation oncology, Intracranial Stereotactic Radiosurgery is a comprehensive reference for current techniques for radiosurgery of the brain. Following introductory chapters on the relevant history, radiobiology,...
by Ibrahim M. Eltorai
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of rare diseases and syndromes of the spinal cord, collected over the past forty years from all the world's literature. Each chapter in this volume is organized in the same easy-to-follow format, comprising definitions, incidence, etiology,...
by Abdul Qayyum Rana, John Anthony Morren
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Neurological Emergencies in Clinical Practice discusses neurological emergencies in a stepwise fashion including stabilizing the patient, identifying the cause, and treating the underlying cause. It is useful in several settings including the emergency room, hospital in-patient service as well as...
Neuropsychiatric and Cognitive Changes in Parkinson's Disease and Related Movement Disorders
Diagnosis and Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Psychiatric and cognitive changes are common in patients with Parkinson's disease and have key clinical consequences but, despite this, these symptoms are often under-diagnosed and under-treated, leading to increased morbidity and costs. With chapters focused on the major neuropsychiatric features,...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Friedreich ataxia is a rare disease and the most frequent inherited ataxia.It is a degenerative disorder that mainly affects the nervous system, muscles and the heart.It is often linked with cardiomyopathy or diabetesThere is progressive ataxia (in-coordination of muscles), dysarthria, reduced proprioception,...
Neurosurgical Aspects of Epilepsy
Proceedings of the Fourth Advanced Seminar in Neurosurgical Research of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies Bresseo di Teolo, Padova, May 17–18, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The 4th Advanced Seminar in Neurosurgical Research was held on May 17th-18th, 1989 in the Abbey of Praglia, a XIIth century Benedictine Monastery, near Padua, Italy, and was devoted to "Neurosurgical Aspects of Epilepsy". The general aim of these Advanced Seminars is to bring together European...
Neurogenetics
A Guide for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Progress in genetic knowledge is profoundly affecting medical practice, and no clinical specialty has more diseases associated with genetic mutations than neurology. As a more complete picture of the genes which give rise to neurological disease is obtained, trainee and practising neurologists need...