Neurology

Proceedings of the XIIIth World Congress of Neurology Hamburg, September 1¿6, 1985
Herausgegeben von Poeck, Klaus; Freund, Hans-Joachim; Gänshirt, Heinz

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Produktbeschreibung

Die zwolfte Auflage des beliebten Standardwerks bietet den neuesten Stand der klinischen und apparativen Diagnostik, der Pathophysiologie und der konservativen sowie der interventionellen Therapie. Das Lehrbuch besticht durch ein ebenso ansprechendes wie didaktisch ausgefeiltes Layout. Der flussig und verstandlich geschriebene Text der renommierten Autoren bringt auch komplexe Zusammenhange auf den Punkt. Pointierte Einleitungen, anschauliche Fallberichte, viele Merksatze sowie strukturierte Kapitelzusammenfassungen erleichtern das Lernen und bieten intensive Orientierung. Besonderer Pluspunkt: Facharztwissen und Leitlinien der DGN in Boxen herausgestellt. Wer uber den Tellerrand der MC-Prufungen hinausblicken und sich fundierte Kenntnisse der Neurologie aneignen mochte, ist mit diesem Lehrbuch gut beraten. Auch fur Assistenzarzte in der Facharztweiterbildung sehr geeignet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-70009-5
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 881g
• ISBN-13: 9783642700095
• ISBN-10: 3642700098
• Artikelnr.: 36116706

Inhaltsangabe

On the Dynamics Between Growth and Decline in the Aging of Intelligence and Memory.- 1 The Dementias.- Clinical Aspects of the Dementias.- Historical Overview of the Dementias.- The Descriptive Epidemiology of the Dementias.- Clinical Presentation of the Dementias.- The Evolution of the Diagnosis of Dementia: Past, Present and Future.- Brain Imaging in the Assessment of the Dementias.- Neuropsychological Approach to Dementia.- Clinical Management of the American Patient with Dementia.- Clinical Management in Europe of Patients with Dementia.- Research Issues in Alzheimer's Disease.- Analytic Epidemiology and Risk Factors in Alzheimer's Disease.- Classical and Modern Neuropathological Approaches to Alzheimer's Disease.- Structural Proteins in Alzheimer's Disease.- Energy Metabolism and Neurotransmitters in Alzheimer's Disease.- Differential Cell Loss in (Peptide) Neurons in the Anterior Hypothalamus with Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Lack of Changes in Cell Density.- The Dementias: A View to the Future.- The Dementias: A View to the Future.- 2 Brain and Behavior.- Mechanisms of Attention and Attentional Disorders. Session in Honor of the Late Dr. Norman Geschwind.- The Impact of Dr. Geschwind's Work on Neuropsychology.- Anatomical Basis of Spatial Attention.- The Contribution of Electrophysiology to the Study of Attention.- Representational Impairment as a Factor in Neglect.- Disorders of Visual Perception and Recognition.- Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms of Visual Perception.- Visual Agnosia for Objects.- Disorders of Face Recognition.- Recovery of Visual Field in Patients with Postgeniculate Damage.- Memory and its Disorders.- Is Vascular Thalamic Amnesia a Disconnection Syndrome?.- What Amnesics Can and Can Not Do.- 3 Neuroepidemiology and Clinical Trials.- Neuroepidemiology.- Neuroepidemiology as the Basis of Scientific Clinical Neurology.- Epidemiology of Cerebrovascular Disease: International Patterns.- Cerebrovascular Risk Factors.- Epidemiology of Epilepsy.- Epidemiology of Head Injury.- Discussion.- Environmental vs. Genetic Factors in Ischemic Cerebrovascular Disease.- Case-Control Study of Focal Cerebral Ischemia in Young Adults.- Guillain-Barré Syndrome Following (A/New Jersey/76) Influenza (Swine Flu) Vaccine: Epidemic or Artifact?.- Epidemiology of Head Injury: Future Perspective.- Epidemiology of Peripheral Neuropathies.- Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease.- Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis.- Overview of Motor Neuron Disease.- Discussion.- Epidemiology of Peripheral Neuropathies.- Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease - Relevance of the Risk Factors.- Discussion on Epidemiology of Motor Neurone Disease.- Clinical Trials.- Clinical Trials Relating to Epilepsy.- Clinical Trials Relating to Head Injury.- Clinical Trials Relating to Peripheral Neuropathy.- Discussion.- The European Stroke Prevention Study.- Clinical Trials Relating to Epilepsy.- Controlled Clinical Trials of Head Injury.- Discussion of Clinical Trials Relating to Peripheral Neuropathies.- Parkinson's Disease: Clinical Trials.- Clinical Trials Relating to Multiple Sclerosis.- The Clinical Relevance of Neuroepidemiology.- Discussion.- Clinical Trials in Parkinson's Disease.- Discussion on Kurtzke's: Clinical Trials in Multiple Sclerosis.- 4 Neuroimaging.- Neuroimaging: Preface.- Impact of Computerized Tomography in Neurology.- Transition from Computer Tomography to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Scanning.- Correlative Neuropathology in Neuroimaging.- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Central Nervous System.- Positron Emission Tomography and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging: New Perspectives in Neuroimaging.- Positron Emission Tomography with Oxygen-15 Radiopharmaceuticals.- PET Studies of Local Brain Metabolism During Sensory and Motor Tasks: Strategies, Results and Applications in Neurologic and Psychiatric Diseases.- Functional and Morphological Evaluation of the Cerebral Circulation by Ultrasound.- Application of Digital Subtraction Angiography in Neurological Disorders.- Neuroimaging Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Computerized Tomography in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis, Idiopathic Optic Neuritis, and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.- CT and MRI Diagnoses of Intracranial Tumours Compared with the Results of Stereotactic Biopsy.- Autoradiographic Distributions of Neurotransmitter Receptors in the Brain of Patients with Parkinson's Disease and MPTP-induced Monkey Parkinsonism.- Economics of Modern Brain Imaging Techniques.