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International Neurology


International Neurology


2. Aufl.

von: Robert P. Lisak, Daniel D. Truong, William M. Carroll, Roongroj Bhidayasiri

186,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 13.04.2016
ISBN/EAN: 9781118777343
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 776

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This unique textbook deals with the variations in the causes, presentations and treatment of neurological disease throughout human populations. <i>International Neurology</i> is an indispensable guide to the full range of neurological conditions you will see in your ever-changing patient population.<br /> <ul> <li>Comprehensive coverage of neurological diseases and disorders with a clinical approach to diagnosis, treatment and management</li> <li>Truly international authorship distils expert knowledge from around the world</li> <li>Succinct, bite-sized, templated chapters allow for rapid clinical referral</li> <li>Further reading recommendations for each chapter guide readers requiring more depth of information</li> <li>Endorsed by the World Federation of Neurology</li> </ul>
<p>List of contributors</p> <p>Foreword</p> <p>Endorsement from the World Federation of Neurology</p> <p>Preface</p> <p><b>Part 1 Vascular</b></p> <p>1 Overview of Stroke<br /><i>Christopher Li-Hsian Chen, Chung Y. Hsu</i></p> <p>2 Ischemic Stroke and Transient Events, TIA<br /><i>Lidia Yamada, Shelly Ozark, Bruce Ovbiagele</i></p> <p>3 Atherothrombotic Disease<br /><i>Nijasri C. Suwanwela</i></p> <p>4 Occlusion Disease of Small Penetrating Arteries<br /><i>Marie Dagonnier, Takeshi Iwanaga, Hock L. Teoh, Jorge A. Zavala, Geoffrey A. Donann</i></p> <p>5 Ischemic White Matter Disease (Binswanger’s disease)<br /><i>Saltanat U. Kamenova, Aida M. Kondybayeva, Assiya Akanova</i></p> <p>6 Brain Embolism<br /><i>Bernard P. L. Chan, N. Venketasubramanian, Chung Y. Hsu</i></p> <p>7 Systemic Hypotensive Injury (Border Zone Infarction)<br /><i>Thomas W. Leung</i></p> <p>8 Dissection of the Cervicocerebral Arteries<br /><i>Nijasri C. Suwanwela</i></p> <p>9 Coagulation Disorders<br /><i>Kay Sin Tan</i></p> <p>10 Hemorrhagic Strokes<br /><i>Anna Katharina Flügel, Thorsten Steiner, Josef Schill, Nauman Jahangir, Morad Chughtai, Mushtaq H. Qureshi, Adnan I. Qureshi</i></p> <p>11 Strokes in Children and Young Adults<br /><i>Alfred Lindner, Ute Berweiler</i></p> <p>12 Other Cerebrovascular Syndromes<br /><i>David J. Blacker</i></p> <p>13 Cerebral Venous Disease<br /><i>Patrick W. Carney, Stephen M. Davis</i></p> <p>14 Spinal Cord Strokes<br /><i>Rohini Bhole, Louis R. Caplan</i></p> <p><b>Part 2 Disorders of Cerebrovacular Autonomic Control</b></p> <p>15 Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstrictive Syndrome (RCVS)<br /><i>Shih-Pin Chen, Shuu-Jiun Wang</i></p> <p>16 Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES)<br /><i>Pratik Bhattacharya</i></p> <p><b>Part 3 The Vasculitides</b></p> <p><i>Inflammatory vasculopathy</i></p> <p>17 Extracranial and Intracranial Granulomatous Arteritis (Giant cell arteritis)<br /><i>Gregory P. Van Stavern</i></p> <p>18 Intracranial granulomatous Arteritis (primary Angiitis of the CNS)/ Idiopathic CNS Vasculitis<br /><i>Donald Silberberg</i></p> <p>19 Takayasu’s Arteritis<br /><i>Yasuhisa Kitagawa</i></p> <p>20 Polyarteritis Nodosa, Churg-Strauss and Overlap Vasculitis Syndrome<br /><i>Arnold I. Levinson, Robert P Lisak</i></p> <p>21 Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPS)<br /><i>Gerard Said</i></p> <p>22 Cerebrovascular Disease Associated with Antiphospholipid Antibody<br /><i>Adrian Marchidann, Steven R. Levine</i></p> <p>23 Thromboangiitis Obliterans – Buerger disease<br /><i>Kumar Rajamani</i></p> <p>24 Susac’s disease<br /><i>Rachel E. Ventura, Steven L. Galetta</i></p> <p><b>Part 4 Inflammatory Vasculopathies</b></p> <p>25 SLE, Rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren’s syndrome<br /><i>Marc Gotkine, Oded Abramsky</i></p> <p>26 Progressive Systemic Sclerosis<br /><i>Ho Jin Kim, Jae-Won Hyun</i></p> <p>27 Mixed connective tissue disorders<br /><i>Ho Jin Kim, Jae-Won Hyun</i></p> <p>28 Micro vasculitides and Behcet’s disease<br /><i>Ugur Uygunoglu, Sabahattin Saip, Aksel Siva</i></p> <p>29 Sarcoidosis<br /><i>Barney J. Stern</i></p> <p>30 Autoimmune Encephalitis with Neuronal Cell Surface Antibodies<br /><i>Josep Dalmau, Myrna R. Rosenfeld</i></p> <p><b>Part 5 Paroxysmal disorders</b></p> <p>31 Epilepsy Overview<br /><i>Andres M. Kanner, Barbara E. Swartz</i></p> <p>32 Cryptogenic and Symptomatic Generalized Epilepsies and Syndromes<br /><i>Marco T. Medina, Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta, Luis C. Rodríguez Salinas, Marco Medina-Montoya, Barbara E Swartz</i></p> <p>33 Genetic (primary) Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsies<br /><i>Afawi Zaid, Altynshash Jaxybayeva</i></p> <p>34 Localization Related Epilepsies<br /><i>Hirokazu Oguni, Chrysostomos P. Panayiotopoulos</i></p> <p>35 Neurodiagnostic Tools for the Paroxysmal Disorders<br /><i>Barbara E. Swartz</i></p> <p>36 Neuropharmacology of Antiepileptic Drugs<br /><i>Paul B. Pritchard, III</i></p> <p>37 Surgical and Other Treatment<br /><i>Ivan Rektor, Barbara E. Swartz</i></p> <p><b>Part 6 Dementia</b></p> <p>38 Dementia Overview<br /><i>Murray Grossman</i></p> <p>39 Mild cognitive impairment to include amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease<br /><i>David Wolk, Sanjeev Vaishnavi</i></p> <p>40 Parkinson's Dementia, Lewy Body Disease and Other Synucleinopathies<br /><i>Irena Rektorová, Marek Balá?, Robert Rusina, Radoslav Matij</i></p> <p>41 Specific Vascular Syndromes<br /><i>Elka Stefanova, Vladimir Kosti?</i></p> <p>42 Vascular cognitive Impairment<br /><i>Elka Stefanova, Vladimir Kosti?</i></p> <p>43 Frontotemporal dementia<br /><i>Katya Rascovsky, Diana Matallana</i></p> <p>44 Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Corticobasal Syndrome and Other Tauopathies<br /><i>David J. Irwin</i></p> <p>45 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Other TDP-43 Proteinopathies<br /><i>Albert C. Ludolph</i></p> <p>46 Metabolic, toxic, infectious, inflammatory and other dementias<br /><i>John M. Ringman, Arousiak Varpetian, Yu-Wei Lin</i></p> <p><b>Part 7 Movement Disorders</b></p> <p>47 Movement disorders: An overview<br /><i>Roongroj Bhidayasiri, Jirada Sringean, Daniel D. Truong</i></p> <p>48 Tremor<br /><i>Jan Raethjen, Günther Deuschl</i></p> <p>49 Parkinsonism<br /><i>Dronacharya Lamichhane, Lisa M. Shulman</i></p> <p>50 Parkinson’s disease<br /><i>Daniel D. Truong, Roongroj Bhidayasiri</i></p> <p>51 Dystonia<br /><i>Stanley Fahn</i></p> <p>52 Chorea and related disorders<br /><i>Roongroj Bhidayasiri, Onanong Jitkritsadakul, Daniel D. Truong</i></p> <p>53 Myoclonus<br /><i>John N. Caviness, Daniel D. Truong</i></p> <p>54 Tics and Tourette syndrome<br /><i>Valerie Suski, Mark Stacy</i></p> <p>55 Ataxia<br /><i>Sergey N. Illarioshkin</i></p> <p>56 Drug induced movement disorders<br /><i>Rick Stell</i></p> <p>57 Paroxysmal movement disorders<br /><i>Sopio Sopromadze, Alexander Tsiskaridze</i></p> <p><b>Part 8 Infectious diseases</b></p> <p><i>Bacterial infections</i></p> <p>58 Acute bacterial meningitis<br /><i>Sudesh Prabhakar</i></p> <p>59 Brain abscess<br /><i>Gagandeep Singh</i></p> <p>60 Subdural empyema<br /><i>Sandi Lam, Eric Momin</i></p> <p>61 Epidural abscess<br /><i>Sandi Lam, Humphrey Okechi, Jared Fridley</i></p> <p>62 Intracranial septic thrombophlebitis<br /><i>Ismail A. Khatri, Mohammad Wasay</i></p> <p>63 Encephalitis due to bacterial infections<br /><i>Karen L. Roos, Jennifer Durphy</i></p> <p><i>Mycobacterial infections</i></p> <p>64 Mycobacterium tuberculosis and avium<br /><i>Einar P. Wilder-Smith</i></p> <p>65 Leprosy<br /><i>Minh Le, Minh Hoang Van</i></p> <p><i>Spirochetal infections</i></p> <p>66 Neurosyphilis<br /><i>Jonathan Carr</i></p> <p>67 Lyme disease<br /><i>Patricia K. Coyle</i></p> <p><i>Protozoan diseases</i></p> <p>68 Introduction to protozoans of the central nervous system<br /><i>Marylou V. Solbrig</i></p> <p>69 Amoebic disease of the central nervous system<br /><i>Melanie Walker</i></p> <p>70 Toxoplasmosis of the central nervous system<br /><i>Marylou V. Solbrig</i></p> <p>71 Cerebral malaria<br /><i>Polrat Wilairatana, Srivicha Krudsood, Noppadon Tangpukdee</i></p> <p>72 Trypanosomiasis<br /><i>Francisco Javier Carod-Artal</i></p> <p><i>Helminthic</i></p> <p>73 Cestodes<br /><i>Oscar H. Del Brutto</i></p> <p>74 Trematodes: schistosomiasis<br /><i>Manjari Tripathi</i></p> <p>75 Nematodes<br /><i>Manjari Tripathi</i></p> <p><i>Other infection</i></p> <p>76 Fungal infections of the central nervous system<br /><i>Thomas Cesario</i></p> <p>77 Rickettsial disease<br /><i>Kelly J Baldwin, Narendra Rathi</i></p> <p><b>Part 9 Prion diseases and Neurovirology</b></p> <p>78 Prion Disorders<br /><i>Ellen Gelpi, Herbert Budka</i></p> <p>79 Acute and recurrent viral meningitis<br /><i>Larry E. Davis</i></p> <p>80 Acute viral encephalitis<br /><i>Heng Thay Chong, Chong Tin Tan</i></p> <p>81 Neurologic complications of human herpes virus infections<br /><i>Don Gilden, Maria A. Nagel</i></p> <p>82 Chronic viral diseases of the CNS<br /><i>Maria A. Nagel, Don Gilden</i></p> <p>83 Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, PML<br /><i>Salim Chahin, Thomas Weber, Joseph R. Berger</i></p> <p><i>HIV and the Nervous System</i></p> <p>84 Biology of the HIV Virus and overview of AIDS<br /><i>Alexandros C. Tselis</i></p> <p>85 HIV encephalitis and myelopathy<br /><i>Girish Modi, Kapila Hari, Andre Mochan</i></p> <p>86 Neuromuscular complications of HIV<br /><i>David M. Simpson, Kara Stavros</i></p> <p>87 Opportunistic Infections in HIV Positive Subjects and AIDS patients<br /><i>B. J. Brew, A. Laffan</i></p> <p>88 Neurologic Complications of HTLV-1<br /><i>Abelardo Q-C Araujo, Marco A. Lima, Marcus Tulius Silva</i></p> <p><b>Part 10 Demyelinating Disorders</b></p> <p>89 Multiple sclerosis<br /><i>Robert P. Lisak, Jun-Ichi Kira</i></p> <p>90 Multiple sclerosis in children<br /><i>Sarah E. Hopkins, Yael Hacohen, Sona Narula, Brenda L Banwell</i></p> <p>91 Neuromyelitis optica<br /><i>William M. Carroll</i></p> <p>92 Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis<br /><i>Sona Narula, Sarah E. Hopkins, Yael Hacohen, and Brenda Banwell</i></p> <p>93 Isolated inflammatory demyelinating CNS syndromes<br /><i>Ernest Willoughby</i></p> <p>94 Osmotic demyelination syndromes<br /><i>Ovidiu-Alexandru Bajenaru</i></p> <p>95 Concentric sclerosis<br /><i>Takeshi Tabira</i></p> <p><b>Part 11 Specific toxicities and deficiencies</b></p> <p>96 Toxicology<br /><i>Chin-Chang Huang, Nai-Shin Chu</i></p> <p>97 Alcohol related neurological disorders<br /><i>Yuri Alekseenko</i></p> <p>98 Vitamin Deficiencies<br /><i>Jacques Serratrice, Volodymyr Golyk</i></p> <p>99 Starvation, Strachan syndrome and postgastroplasty syndrome<br /><i>Ivan Milanov, Vesselina Grozeva</i></p> <p><b>Part 12 Peripheral Neuropathies</b></p> <p>100 Peripheral Neuropathies overview<br /><i>Friedhelm Sandbrink</i></p> <p>101 Hereditary neuropathies<br /><i>Liying Cui, Mingsheng Liu</i></p> <p>102 Acquired Neuropathies<br /><i>Friedhelm Sandbrink</i></p> <p>103 Plexopathies<br /><i>Friedhelm Sandbrink</i></p> <p><b>Part 13 Neuromuscular Disorders<br /></b><i>Hereditary Neuromuscular Disorders<br /></i><b>Degenerative upper and lower motor neuron disorders</b></p> <p>104 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)<br /><i>Björn Oskarsson, Nanette Joyce, Steven P. Ringel</i></p> <p>105 Progressive Muscular Atrophy (PMA)<br /><i>James Ha, Steven P. Ringel, Björn Oskarsson</i></p> <p>106 Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)<br /><i>Nanette Joyce, Björn Oskarsson, Yvonne D. Rollins, Steven P. Ringel</i></p> <p>107 Hereditary spastic paraplegia<br /><i>Ildefonso Rodríguez-Leyva</i></p> <p>108 Spinal muscular atrophy<br /><i>Sabine Rudnik-Schöneborn, Klaus Zerres</i></p> <p>109 Post-polio syndrome<br /><i>Nils Erik Gilhus</i></p> <p><i>Degenerative Muscle Disorders</i></p> <p>110 Limb girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD)<br /><i>A. J. van der Kooi, M. de Visser</i></p> <p>111 Dystrophinopathies<br /><i>Chiara S. M. Straathofa, Marianne de Visserb</i></p> <p>112 Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD)<br /><i>George W. Padberg</i></p> <p>113 Myotonic disorders<br /><i>Giovanni Meola, Rosanna Cardani</i></p> <p>114 Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy (OPMD)<br /><i>Luis A. Chui, Tahseen Mozaffar, Namita A. Goyal</i></p> <p>115 Emery Dreifuss and other laminopathies<br /><i>Malcolm Rabie, Yoram Nevo</i></p> <p>116 Muscle channelopathies<br /><i>Karen Suetterlin, Michael G. Hanna</i></p> <p>117 Congenital dystrophies and myopathies<br /><i>Young-Chul Choi</i></p> <p>118 Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS)<br /><i>Angela Abicht, Ulrike Schara</i></p> <p>119 Distal myopathies<br /><i>Phillipa J. Lamont, Nigel G. Laing</i></p> <p><i>Acquired Neuromuscular Disorders</i></p> <p>120 Polymyositis<br /><i>Marinos C. Dalakas</i></p> <p>121 Dermatomyositis<br /><i>Marinos C. Dalakas</i></p> <p>122 Inclusion body myositis (IBM)<br /><i>Merrilee Needham, Frank L. Mastaglia</i></p> <p>123 Immune mediated inflammatory myopathies<br /><i>Werner Stenzel, Hans-Hilmar Goebel, Olivier Benveniste, Yves Allenbach</i></p> <p>124 Toxic myopathies<br /><i>Stefen Brady, David Hilton-Jones</i></p> <p>125 Critical illness neuromuscular disorders<br /><i>Nicola Latronico, Frank A. Rasulo</i></p> <p>126 Exercise intolerance and myoglobinuria<br /><i>John Vissing</i></p> <p>127 Muscle cramps<br /><i>Kimiyoshi Arimura, Raymond L. Rosales</i></p> <p>128 Myasthenia gravis<br /><i>Richard A. Lewis</i></p> <p>129 LEMS<br /><i>Emilia Kerty</i></p> <p>130 NMJ disorders caused by drugs and toxins<br /><i>Zohar Argov</i></p> <p><b>Part 14 Neurogenetic</b></p> <p>131 Neurogenetic<br /><i>Karen P. Frei, Janice Fuentes</i></p> <p><b>Part 15 Neurootology</b></p> <p>132 Neurootology<br /><i>Kevin A. Kerber</i></p> <p><b>Part 16 Neuroophthalmology</b></p> <p>133 Neuroophthalmology<br /><i>Anuchit Poonyathalang</i></p> <p><b>Part 17 Neuro-oncology</b></p> <p>134 Neuro-oncology overview<br /><i>Marc C. Chamberlain</i></p> <p><i>Glial tumors</i></p> <p>135 High grade astrocytomas<br /><i>Olivier-L Chinot, Marc C. Chamberlain</i></p> <p>136 Low grade astrocytomas<br /><i>M.J. van den Bent</i></p> <p>137 Low grade and anaplastic oligodendroglioma<br /><i>Sergio Cabrera, Catherine Maurice, Warren P. Mason</i></p> <p>138 Brain stem glioma<br /><i>Ira J. Dunkel, Mark M. Souweidane</i></p> <p>139 Intracranial ependymoma<br /><i>Marc C. Chamberlain</i></p> <p><i>Non-glial tumors</i></p> <p>140 Nerve sheath tumors<br /><i>Nathan J. Ranalli, Zarina S. Ali, Gregory G. Heuer, Eric L. Zager</i></p> <p>141 Meningiomas<br /><i>Jeffrey Raizer, Simran Singh</i></p> <p>142 Medulloblastoma<br /><i>Alba A. Brandes, Regina I. Jakacki, Enrico Franceschi</i></p> <p>143 Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL)<br /><i>Deborah T. Blumenthal, Idan Ben-Horin</i></p> <p><i>Metastatic tumors</i></p> <p>144 Brain metastases<br /><i>Babita Jyoti, Farida Balkhi Alam, Silvia Hofer, Michael Brada</i></p> <p>145 Leptomeningeal metastases<br /><i>Emilie Le Rhun, Sophie Taillibert, Marc C. Chamberlain</i></p> <p>146 Spinal epidural metastases<br /><i>Roberta Rudà, Riccardo Soffietti</i></p> <p>Neurologic complications of systemic cancer<br />147 General approach to the diagnosis and treatment of paraneoplastic neurological disorders<br /><i>Myrna R. Rosenfeld, Josep Dalmau</i></p> <p><b>Part 18 Sleep disorders</b></p> <p>148 Insomnia<br /><i>Delwyn J. Bartlett, Colin A. Espie</i></p> <p><i>Primary disorders of daytime somnolence</i></p> <p>149 Narcolepsy<br /><i>Marcel Hungs</i></p> <p>150 Idiopathic hypersomnia<br /><i>Marcel Hungs</i></p> <p>151 Obstructive Sleep Apnea<br /><i>Janesh Patel, Christian Guilleminault</i></p> <p>152 Restless Leg syndrome and Periodic Limb Movement Disorders<br /><i>Birgit Högl, Birgit Frauscher, Claudio Podesta</i></p> <p>153 Circadian sleep disorders<br /><i>Sergio Tufik, Lia R .A. Bittencourt, Monica L. Andersen</i></p> <p><i>Parasomnias</i></p> <p>154 Arousal disorders<br /><i>Li Ling Lim</i></p> <p>155 REM Sleep Behavioral Disorders<br /><i>Li Ling Lim</i></p> <p>156 Hypnogenic paroxysmal Dystonia<br /><i>Cynthia L. Comella</i></p> <p>157 Sleep abnormalities in Neurological Disorders<br /><i>Margaret Park, Cynthia L. Comella</i></p> <p><b>Part 19 Spinal cord</b></p> <p>158 Spinal cord disorders<br /><i>David B. Vodušek, Miran Jeromel, Simon Podnar</i></p> <p>159 Ischemic and congestive myelopathies<br /><i>Simon Podnar, Miran Jeromel, David B. Vodušek</i></p> <p>160 Syringomyelia<br /><i>Alla Guekht</i></p> <p><b>Part 20 Pediatric neurology</b></p> <p>161 Neonatal neurology<br /><i>Mary Payne, Ann Tilton</i></p> <p>162 Neurodevelopmental disorders<br /><i>Adam L. Numis, Raman Sankar</i></p> <p>163 Floppy infant syndrome<br /><i>Jong-Hee Chae, Anna Cho</i></p> <p>164 Storage disorders<br /><i>Jeffrey J. Ekstrand, Jason T. Lerner, Raman Sankar</i></p> <p>165 Fatty acid oxidation disorders<br /><i>Thomas Wieser</i></p> <p>166 Disorders of amino acid, organic acid, and ammonia metabolism<br /><i>Stephen Cederbaum</i></p> <p>167 Pediatric neurotransmitter diseases<br /><i>Stephen Deputy</i></p> <p>168 Mitochondrial encephalomyopathies<br /><i>Stacey K. H. Tay, Caterina Garone, Salvatore DiMauro</i></p> <p>169 Disorders resulting from transporters<br /><i>Anna Czlonkowska, David Gloss, Tomasz Litwin</i></p> <p>170 The porphyrias<br /><i>F. J. E. Vajda</i></p> <p><b>Part 21 CNS Trauma, Pain and Headache</b></p> <p>171 Traumatic brain injury<br /><i>Christopher C. Giza</i></p> <p>172 Spinal Injury<br /><i>Enver I. Bogdanov, Aisylu T. Faizutdinova</i></p> <p>173 Whiplash injury<br /><i>Anthony Ciabarra</i></p> <p>174 Decompression sickness<br /><i>Andreas Koch, Günther Deuschl</i></p> <p>175 Pain<br /><i>Guillermo García-Ramos, Bernardo Cacho-Díaz, Bruno Estañol-Vidal</i></p> <p>176 Headache<br /><i>Stephen D. Silberstein</i></p> <p>177 Facial and neck pain<br /><i>Kammant Phanthumchinda</i></p> <p>178 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome<br /><i>Jasem Yousef Al-Hashel</i></p> <p>179 Fibromyalgia<br /><i>Saeed Bohlega, Hussam Abou Al-Shaar</i></p> <p>Index</p>
<p><b>ROBERT P. LISAK, FAAN, FRCP (E), FANA<br /></b>Parker Webber Chair in Neurology, Professor of Neurology, Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine; Attending Neurologist, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA</p> <p><b>DANIEL D. TRUONG MD FAAN<br /></b>The Truong Neuroscience Institute, Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center, Fountain Valley, CA, USA; Professor, University California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA</p> <p><b>WILLIAM M. CARROLL MBBS MD FRACP FRCP(E)<br /></b>Clinical Professor of Neurology, Western Australian Research Institute, University of Western Australia, Australia</p> <p><b>ROONGROJ BHIDAYASIRI MD FRCP<br /></b>Director, Chulalongkorn Comprehensive Movement Disorders Center<br />Chulalongkorn University Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand;<br />University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA</p>
<p>The second edition of this unique text for clinical neurology provides an expanded picture on the variation of neurological disease across the world. As the field of neurology develops there is a need for clinicians to keep abreast of global trends and patterns. Most texts consider only Western populations and miss many of the variations that are present in modern, mixed heritage communities and as such, the wrong models of causation can be applied, leading to insufficient diagnosis and ineffective management. Equally, the increase in international travel has made it more likely that patients present to physicians with diseases they have not yet seen, or with different manifestations of diseases they have seen.</p> <p>This book is written by an extensive team of authors and section editors from across the world, familiar with, and expert in, neurologic diseases. The chapters address the etiology and pathogenesis of disease, and then discuss differences in genetic, environmental, and demographic factors, as well as therapeutic approaches from an evidence-based medicine approach. Coverage of management options describes both the ‘gold' standard that may be present in Western countries, and other more affordable, approaches for developing nations.</p> <p>Across 21 sections and 179 chapters, the book provides essential content on the spectrum of neurological diseases and disorders emphasizing, where present, differences in diseases and their manifestations in different populations and locales. Varying approaches to differential diagnoses around the world and is also covered.</p> <ul> <li>Comprehensive coverage of neurological diseases and disorders with a clinical approach to diagnosis, treatment and management</li> <li>Truly international authorship distils expert knowledge from around the world</li> <li>Succinct, bite-sized, templated chapters allow for rapid clinical referral</li> <li>Further reading recommendations for each chapter guide readers requiring more depth of information</li> <li>Endorsed by the World Federation of Neurology</li> </ul> <p>This uniquely global approach to neurology provides an outstanding teaching tool and guide to clinical practice around the world for neurologists and neurology trainees.</p>

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