Neurology category: 2138 books
by Lauren E Abrey, Warren P Mason
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Despite the availability of many effective treatments, there remains a therapeutic nihilism associated with brain tumors. This highly readable second edition of Fast Facts: Brain Tumors challenges this view, starting from the premise that patients with brain tumors can truly benefit from a thoughtful...
Current Progress in the Understanding of Secondary Brain Damage from Trauma and Ischemia
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium: Mechanisms of Secondary Brain Damage-Novel Developments, Mauls/Sterzing, Italy, February 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
This comprehensive ebook provides authoritative information and practical advice from the nation's health experts about Wegener’s Granulomatosis. Starting with the basics, and advancing to detailed patient-oriented and physician-quality information, the 21st Century Sourcebook series gives empowered...
by David C. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Roughly 3 million people in the United States have already been diagnosed with epilepsy and another 200,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Worldwide, approximately 1 percent of the global population is diagnosed with epilepsy at some point in their lives. With the diagnosis come questions, concerns,...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
IntroductionOde to Restless Legs SyndromeRestless Legs Syndrome every one hates you.You rob people of the sleep and make them blueOut of the blue my legs started feeling funnyMy RLS leaves me with very little energyYou make me have the urge to move my legsI feel that ants are...
Living Well with Epilepsy
An Expert Explains What You Really Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Treatment options, lifestyle strategies,and emotional support for two million Americans.
Epilepsy, once mistakenly associated with demonic possession, has for centuries been a poorly understood illness. Today, though it affects nearly one out of every one hundred Americans, little comprehensive...
101 Theory Drive
A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
An obsessive scientist and his eclectic team of researchers race to discover one of the hidden treasures of neuroscience—the physical makeup of memory—and in the process pursue a pharmaceutical wonder drug.
Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist: malnourished, contentious,...
by Ricardo Velluti
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
The Auditory System in Sleep presents for the first time a view of a sensory system working in a different state-that of the sleeping brain. The auditory system is always “open receiving information from the environment and the body itself (conscious and unconscious data). Even during sleep the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Muscle weakness with ageing is almost inevitable, generally beginning to manifest beyond the age of 40, and is usually unstoppable. It can lead to reduced mobility, increased risk of falling, injury, and even death. But “you’re just getting old” is not a sufficient diagnosis. Specific causes...
by Ray L. Watts, David G. Standaert, José A. Obeso
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Praise for the First Edition:--"This instructive text will serve as a reference for specialists in the care of patients with these disorders and for general neurologists and others to whom a patient with Stiff-Person syndrome or Wilson's disease is a rarity. The emphasis on the neuroscientific...
Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders
Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Hyperkinetic movement disorders comprise a range of diseases characterized by unwanted and uncontrollable, or poorly controllable, involuntary movements. The phenomenology of these disorders is quite variable encompassing chorea, tremor, dystonia, myoclonus, tics, other dyskinesias, jerks and shakes....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
The 2e of the gold standard text in the field, Nonhuman Primates in Biomedical Research provides a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the use of nonhuman primates in biomedical research. The Diseases volume provides thorough reviews of naturally occurring diseases of nonhuman primates, with a section...
Neurodegeneration
The Molecular Pathology of Dementia and Movement Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Most textbooks on neurodegenerative disorders have used a classification scheme based upon either clinical syndromes or anatomical distribution of the pathology. In contrast, this book looks to the future and uses a classification based upon molecular mechanisms, rather than clinical or anatomical...
Vertigo
Five Physician Scientists and the Quest for a Cure
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), the most common cause of vertigo, affects one in five people at some point during their lifetime, triggering the sudden feeling like one is moving or spinning when perfectly still. Early pieces of this medical puzzle appeared in the early 19th century in...