Laureno, Robert, MD (Washington DC Georgetown University)

Insights into Clinical Neurology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This illuminating book draws on the author's personal experience to provide organized approaches to neurological conditions such as memory disorder, language disorder and disorders of reflex and weakness. Orienting clinicians to challenging areas of neurology, discussion of controversial subjects is presented with previously unpublished data.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 241mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781009234979
• ISBN-10: 1009234978
• Artikelnr.: 67513580

Autorenporträt

Robert Laureno is Professor of Neurology at the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington DC. He has been Chair of Neurology at the Medstar Washington Hospital Center for forty years. Dr Laureno is an expert on the neurology of systemic disease and is author of Foundations for Clinical Neurology (2017) and Raymond Adams: A Life of Mind and Muscle (2009). He has received numerous teaching awards.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The amnesic syndrome
2. Aphasia, apraxia and agnosia
3. Spurious symptoms and behaviors
4. Hallucinations
5. Grasping and the grasp reflex
6. Asterixis
7. Discussion of the upper motor neuron syndrome
8. Some aspects of the lower motor neuron syndrome
9. The limbic 'system'
10. Vibration sensation, the posterior columns and related topics
11. Trans neuronal effects
12. Spinal nerve roots
13. Ischemic-Hypoxic encephalopathy
14. The liver-brain relationship in Wilson disease
15. Wernicke disease
16. Delayed neurologic disorders after a toxic or metabolic insult
17. Transolfactory spread in the pathogenesis of meningoencephalitis
18. Neurologic disorders in endocarditis
19. Secondary abscess formation in primary brain lesions
20. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: the early years
Index.