Category: Neurology

By Terrence J. Sejnowski, Steven R. Quartz

This intriguing, well timed e-book combines state-of-the-art findings in neuroscience with examples from background and up to date headlines to supply new insights into who we're. Introducing the recent technology of cultural biology, born of advances in mind imaging, desktop modeling, and genetics, Drs. Quartz and Sejnowski demystify the dynamic engagement among mind and international that makes us anything a ways past the sum of our parts.

The authors express how our humanity unfolds in distinctive levels as mind and global have interaction on more and more complicated degrees. Their dialogue embraces shaping forces as old as weather swap over millennia and occasions as contemporary because the terrorism and heroism of September eleven and provides fascinating solutions to a couple of our so much enduring questions, together with why we are living jointly, love, kill -- and infrequently lay down our lives for others.

The solutions, it seems, are superb and paradoxical: the various noblest facets of human nature -- altruism, love, braveness, and creativity -- are rooted in mind structures so historical that we percentage them with bugs, and those structures shape the foundation to boot of a few of our darkest harmful features. The authors additionally overturn renowned perspectives of ways brains enhance. We're now not the straightforward made of animal urges, "selfish" genes, or nature as opposed to nurture. We continue to exist by way of developing an creative internet of principles for making feel of our international -- a symbolic truth known as tradition. This we endow to later generations as our blueprint for survival.

Using compelling examples from historical past and modern lifestyles, the authors convey how engagement with the area excites mind chemistry, which drives additional engagement, which inspires the improvement of cultural complexity. in addition they proportion provocative principles on how human improvement will be stricken by alterations in our tradition. Their insights, grounded in technology and far-reaching of their implications, are riveting examining for a person attracted to our prior, current, and destiny.

By P. Revest

Essentially illustrated and concise consultant for undergraduates; Use of didactic type to assist realizing; Well-selected examples from sleek neuroscience to focus on key rules; excellent creation for all rookies to the sphere; Molecular Neurosc

By Daniel Thomas Ginat, Juan E. Small, Pamela Whitney Schaefer

This publication studies the imaging gains linked to chosen periods of prescription drugs and medicine on mind, head and neck, and backbone and explains the results of the imaging findings for the neuroradiologist and the clinician. a few brokers produce attribute abnormalities with specific imaging positive aspects, whereas others have a spectrum of manifestations on imaging. nonetheless extra brokers produce fairly nonspecific adjustments on imaging, requiring a differential analysis. during this booklet, informative instances are depicted via wealthy photographs, with concise accompanying explanatory textual content that reports the category of agent and the mechanism of motion and discusses picture interpretation and its importance.

By Roy Beran

An priceless neurological advisor for fundamental care physicians

Neurology for basic Practitioners is written in particular for normal practitioners (GPs) - normally the 1st element of touch for sufferers soreness neurological stipulations.

Written by way of neurologist and educational, Roy Beran, Neurology for basic Practitioners assists within the prognosis of neurological issues resembling epilepsy, stroke and Parkinson's sickness. It additionally addresses nearly all of universal problems encountered usually practice.

As good as being a good diagnostic source, Neurology for basic Practitioners will end up a useful device for medical professionals seeking to refer sufferers for advisor opinion and deal with ongoing issues at a chief care point.

Chapters during this compact advisor are established round scientific administration - together with historical past, exam, research and therapy - and sponsored through scientific examples and motives.

As normal practitioners are typically the 1st to determine the early symptoms of neurological problems, this medical perform guide can be of huge profit to basic health and wellbeing care physicians, relatives physicians, rural medical professionals and remoted practitioners alike. This must-have scientific textual content can also be excellent for neurology trainees.

• Practical remedy advice
• Case studies

By P. Portegies (auth.), Dr. Juan Artigas, Professor Dr. Gernot Grosse, Professor Dr. Fred Niedobitek (eds.)

Compact and obviously prepared, this booklet info current wisdom of AIDS study within the fields of neurology and ophthalmology.
The event received through medical specialists via operating with a great number of sufferers is gifted including the exact morphologic result of neuropathology. to explain many of the sickness complexes, morphology takes under consideration all equipment of outcome illustration, together with immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy.
The 4 disciplines pointed out within the subtitle describe all points of the CNS in regards to AIDS, together with clinically major opthalmologic results.
Richly illustrated medical and morphological descriptions lets you comprehend the commonly assorted CNS indicators in addition to ophthalmic involvement.

By John I. Nurnberger M.D., Saul R. Korey M.D. (auth.)

By Icon Health Publications

It is a 3-in-1 reference ebook. It supplies a whole clinical dictionary overlaying 1000's of phrases and expressions in terms of Huntington's ailment. It additionally supplies vast lists of bibliographic citations. ultimately, it offers info to clients on tips on how to replace their wisdom utilizing numerous net assets. The e-book is designed for physicians, clinical scholars getting ready for Board examinations, clinical researchers, and sufferers who are looking to familiarize yourself with learn devoted to Huntington's ailment. in case your time is effective, this e-book is for you. First, you won't waste time looking the web whereas lacking loads of correct details. moment, the publication additionally saves you time indexing and defining entries. ultimately, you won't waste money and time printing enormous quantities of websites.

By Francoise Gray, Charles Duyckaerts, Umberto De Girolami

Now in its fifth edition, Escourolle & Poirier handbook of uncomplicated Neuropathology maintains the culture of being some of the most revered texts in neuropathology by way of delivering an advent to some of the illnesses of the frightened procedure and their underlying pathology. This thorough, but concise guide covers the total spectrum of many of the different types of neurologic disorder, together with neoplasia, trauma, vascular disorder, and an infection, with separate chapters on prion ailments, a number of sclerosis, degenerative issues, bought metabolic illnesses, hereditary metabolic ailments, congenital malformations, perinatal illnesses, skeletal muscle, peripheral nerve, and the pituitary gland. To correctly consultant the clinician, the most up-tp-date options in neuropathology are coated of their personal bankruptcy on the finish of the e-book. Richly illustrated all through, with over seven hundred pictures of assorted neuropathogical diagnoses comparable to tumor, stroke, an infection, degeneration, and malformation between others, this re-creation of the vintage monograph is an easy-to-use handbook for any scholar, researcher, or practitioner looking uncomplicated info on neuropathology.
Used for many years in all fields with regards to the apprehensive system-including neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, neuroradiology, neuroendocrinology, neuropathology, pathology, and neuroscience- Escourolle & Poirier handbook of simple Neuropathology is seemed on the 'bible' of neuropathology. This new edition has been thoroughly rewritten and extended to incorporate very important updates in genetics and molecular biology, reflective of the real neuropathological discoveries in these fields over the last decade.This publication is a realistic diagnostic instrument and worthwhile examining for somebody encountering pathological stipulations of the fearful system.

By Karl-Michael Haus, Christa Berting-Hüneke, Sabine George, Ursula Kleinschmidt, Angela Harth, Hans Hary, Reinhard Ott-Schindele, Irving Speight

Speziell für Ergo- und Physiotherapeuten

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* Wie wirkt bahnende und hemmende Reizverarbeitung bei normaler oder gestörter Bewegungsausführung?

* Welche Schädigungsrprozesse im ZNS sind für die Symptomatik der Multiplen Sklerose verantwortlich?

* Welche Funktionen haben die five sensomotorischen Regelkreise (1. bis 5.SMRK)?

* was once versteht guy unter ''neuronaler Plastizität''?

Zu diesen Fragen und vielen anderen finden Sie in den 6 Kapiteln des ''Grundlagen''-Teils präzise, verständliche Antworten, klare Definitionen und anschauliche Illustrationen. Wie wichtig gute Kenntnisse der Anatomie und Funktionsweise des zentralen und peripheren Nervensystems für Sie als Schüler bzw. Praktiker sind, verdeutlicht das Buch durch die Verknüpfung dieser Grundlagen mit Ihren praktischen Lern- bzw.Praxiserfahrungen:

* Hinweise zur ''Therapierelevanz'' beschreiben und begründen, wie zentralnervöse Prozesse und normale oder gestörte neurophysiologische Funktionen in der Therapie genutzt oder beeinflusst werden können.

* ''Exkurse'' in die Neurologie und Pädiatrie stellen konkrete Bezüge zur Neuropathologie bekannter Störungsbilder her.

So nutzen Sie Ihr Basiswissen ganz praktisch…

In den Kapiteln des ''Praxis''-Teils finden Sie

* die Grundprinzipien der ergotherapeutischen Befundung und Therapie neurologischer Patienten,

* ausführliche konkrete Behandlungsanleitungen für häufige Krankheitsbilder (Hemiparese, Parkinson-Erkrankung und Kleinhirnataxie), die modifiziert auf andere Störungsbilder anwendbar sind,

* umfangreiche Patientenbeispiele, die problemorientiertes therapeutisches Vorgehen an realen Fallgeschichten nachvollziehbar machen.

Weitere Kapitel gehen auf die Internationale Klassifikation der Funktionsfähigkeit, Behinderung und Gesundheit (ICF) und ihre Bedeutung für die Therapiegestaltung ein und – beispielhaft für den Einsatz ergotherapeutischer Praxismodelle – auf das ''Kanadische Modell der Betätigungs-Performanz (CMOP).

Neu in der 2. Auflage:

• Alle Grundlagenkapitel (Neurophysiologie, normale Bewegung) aktualisiert und optimiert
• Alle Fallbeispiele zu unterschiedlichen neurologischen Störungsbildern neu geschrieben: jetzt konsequent anhand der ICF-Befundkriterien erklärt

Ein Muss für Lernende, Berufsanfänger und Wiedereinsteiger

Eine Fundgrube mit aktuellen Informationen und Anregungen auch für erfahrene Praktiker

By Charles Duyckaerts, Irene Litvan

This quantity within the instruction manual OF medical NEUROLOGY (Series Editors: Michael J. Aminoff, division of Neurology, collage of California, San Francisco, united states; François Boller, Bethesda, united states; Dick F. Swaab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) offers with neuropathology, physiopathology, biology, clinics, and imaging of all or so much dementing issues which are almost immediately identified. it's also chapters at the criminal and moral matters to provide the future health care employee a common view on ailments that aren't basically clinical riddles, but additionally the reason for disorder of many sufferers and in their households. lately numerous significant new advances in figuring out were made and are coated during this quantity (for instance the progranulin mutation and the position of TDP-43). All these facing dementia, at no matter what point of workmanship, could locate this quantity of price.