Description
Offering a state-of-the-art, authoritative summary of the most relevant scientific and clinical advances in the field, Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders provides the expert guidance you need to diagnose and manage the full range of these challenging conditions. Superb summary tables, a large video library, and a new, easy-to-navigate format help you find information quickly and apply it in your practice. Based on the authors' popular Aspen Course of Movement Disorders in conjunction with the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, this 3rd Edition is an indispensable resource for movement disorder specialists, general neurologists, and neurology residents.- Explores all facets of movement disorders, including the latest rating scales for clinical research, neurochemistry, clinical pharmacology, genetics, clinical trials, and experimental therapeutics.- Provides the essential information you need for a clinical approach to diagnosis and management, with minimal emphasis on basic science.- Reflects recent advances in areas such as the genetics of Parkinsonian and other movement disorders, diagnostic brain imaging, new surgical approaches to patients with movement disorders, and new treatment guidelines for conditions such as restless legs syndrome.- Features a reader-friendly, full-color format, with plentiful diagrams, photographs, and tables.- Includes access to several hundred updated, professional-quality video clips that illustrate the manifestations of all the movement disorders in the book along with their differential diagnoses.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Overview1 Clinical Overview and Phenomenology of Movement Disorders2 Motor Control: Physiology of Voluntary and Involuntary Movements3 Functional Neuroanatomy of the Basal GangliaSection 2: Hypokinetic disorders4 Parkinsonism: Clinical Features and Diagnosis5 Etiology and Pathogenesis of Parkinson Disease6 Medical Treatment of the Motor Features of Parkinson Disease7 Surgical Treatment of Parkinson Disease and Other Movement Disorders8 Non-Motor Problems in Parkinson Disease9 Atypical Parkinsonism, Parkinsonism-Plus Syndromes and Secondary Parkinsonian Disorders10 TremorsSection 3: Hyperkinetic disorders11 Dystonia: Phenomenology, classification, etiology, pathology, biochemistry, and genetics12 Treatment of Dystonia13 Huntington Disease14 Chorea, Ballism, and Athetosis15 Tics and Tourette Syndrome16 Stereotypies17 The Tardive Syndromes: Phenomenology, Concepts on Pathophysiology and Treatment, and Other Neuroleptic-Induced Syndromes18 Myoclonus: Phenomenology, Etiology, Physiology, and Treatment19 Gait Disorders: Pathophysiology and Clinical Syndromes20 Ataxia: Pathophysiology and Clinical Syndromes21 Stiffness Syndromes22 Wilson Disease23 Autoimmune Movement Disorders24 Paroxysmal Dyskinesias25 Restless Legs Syndrome26 Peripheral Movement Disorders27 Functional (Psychogenic) Movement Disorders: Phenomenology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
