Chorea: Causes and Management

✍ Scribed by Federico E. Micheli, Peter A. LeWitt (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 378
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Chorea: Causes and Management provides a comprehensive and timely update for the wide variety of neurological conditions, both inherited and acquired, which result in this common hyperkinetic movement disorder.

This book describes in detail the latest clinical and etiological information regarding chorea. Management strategies, pathophysiology, and associated medical and psychiatric problems associated with chorea are also addressed. The nineteen chapters are contributed by internationally-recognized authors working at the forefront of research in the specific disorders linked to chorea.

Chorea: Causes and Management is aimed at an audience of neurologists, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists, specialists in medical genetics, clinical and basic researchers in neurosciences, and generalist clinical physicians with an interest in movement disorders.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
A Clinician’s Approach to Chorea....Pages 1-9
Benign Hereditary Chorea....Pages 11-29
Chorea-Acanthocytosis....Pages 31-55
Sydenham’s Chorea....Pages 57-69
Huntington’s Disease: Clinical Phenotypes and Therapeutics....Pages 71-99
Huntington’s Disease: Molecular Pathogenesis and New Therapeutic Perspectives....Pages 101-126
Huntington Disease and Huntington Disease-Like Syndromes: An Overview....Pages 127-144
McLeod Syndrome....Pages 145-153
Neuroferritinopathy....Pages 155-170
Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation....Pages 171-198
Aceruloplasminemia....Pages 199-209
Chorea in Inherited Ataxias....Pages 211-219
Chorea in Prion Diseases....Pages 221-236
Inherited Metabolic Disorders Causing Chorea....Pages 237-247
Drug-Induced Chorea....Pages 249-278
Structural Causes of Chorea....Pages 279-294
Chorea: A Surgical Approach....Pages 295-334
Chorea in Childhood....Pages 335-352
Psychogenic Chorea....Pages 353-361
Back Matter....Pages 363-372

✦ Subjects

Neurology; Psychiatry; Neuropsychology; Neurosciences; Human Genetics

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