Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Clinical Guide

✍ Scribed by Orla Hardiman, Colin P. Doherty, Marwa Elamin, Peter Bede (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new edition provides an accessible guide to the commonest neurodegenerative diseases, outlining the main clinical features, treatment options and outcomes of the conditions most frequently encountered in clinical practice.

Beginning with an overview of the general principles that underlie degeneration, and the contribution of established and new diagnostics techniques, the book goes on to describe the most common neurodegenerative conditions and, new for the second edition, also HIV dementia and multiple sclerosis. Final chapters cover important management issues including the use of palliative care strategies, biomarkers and neuropsychology.

Written by experts in the field internationally Neurodegenerative Disorders, Second Edition is a practical guide for clinicians that will be indispensable for the management of these conditions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Common Themes in the Pathogenesis of Neurodegeneration....Pages 1-12
Imaging Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Conditions....Pages 13-27
Role of Neuropsychology in Neurodegeneration....Pages 29-55
Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 57-74
Dementia and Cerebrovascular Disease....Pages 75-83
Parkinson’s Disease....Pages 85-115
Fronto-Temporal Dementia (FTD)....Pages 117-143
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis....Pages 145-165
Huntington’s Disease....Pages 167-179
Parkinsonism-Plus Syndromes....Pages 181-198
Medical Mimics of Neurodegenerative Diseases....Pages 199-212
Prion Diseases....Pages 213-231
Managing Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Neurodegenerative Diseases....Pages 233-253
HIV and Other Infectious Causes of Dementia....Pages 255-268
Neuroinflammatory Disorders....Pages 269-287
Clinical Trials in Neurodegeneration....Pages 289-303
Palliative Care and End of Life Care....Pages 305-319
Back Matter....Pages 321-336

✦ Subjects

Neurology;Geriatrics/Gerontology