A diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or motor neuron disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that exerts a notorious life-shortening physical toll.
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Psychosis affects nearly 50% of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). It is a major therapeutic challenge, as a balance needs to be found between the PD medications that can exacerbate psychotic symptoms and the antipsychotics that may worsen motor function.
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A review of novel therapeutic modalitiesAt present most intracranial gliomas are considered incurable with current treatment strategies, and the search for new modalities that may effectively control tumor growth continues.
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A unique review of adjuvant treatment optionsTreatment of patients with intracranial gliomas, especially high-grade neoplasms, usually requires postoperative adjuvant therapy. Significant progress in the understanding of tumor biology, technological advances in irradiation delivery, and development of novel antitumor drugs have led to an expansion of the therapeutic arsenal in neuro-oncology.
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Aggressive surgical removal is generally considered the main initial management option for most intracranial gliomas.
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After a period in which neurology and psychiatry have become more and more defined, neurologists’ interest in psychiatric topics, and vice versa, has increased. This book provides readers with an overview of the most representative neuropsychiatric syndromes such as Ganser and Capgras syndromes. It fills an existing gap in current literature and reintroduces a clinical approach.
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After a period in which neurology and psychiatry have become more and more defined, neurologists’ interest in psychiatric topics, and vice versa, has increased. This book provides readers with an overview of the most representative neuropsychiatric syndromes such as Ganser and Capgras syndromes. It fills an existing gap in current literature and reintroduces a clinical approach.
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Intracranial atherosclerosis is a leading cause of stroke in Asians and Africans. As these ethnic groups account for more than 70% of the world's population, it is in fact the major cause of ischemic stroke worldwide.
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Getting neurological patients on the right drug with the right dose at the right timeMost neurological disorders are chronic and aging-related. With the increase of life expectancy their incidence and prevalence will grow in the decades to come, which in turn will increase the load on medical and social systems worldwide.
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A medico-historical approach to neurology through warInterest in the history of neurological science has increased significantly during the last decade, but the significance of war has been overlooked in related research. In contrast, this book highlights war as a factor of progress in neurological science.
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ntroducing a new era in acute stroke careThe age-standardized mortality rate for hemorrhagic stroke has decreased worldwide over the past two decades, but incidence, number of deaths, and lost disability-adjusted life-years (DALY) continue to increase. Moreover, hemorrhagic stroke occurs half as frequently globally as ischemic stroke, but causes significantly more deaths and lost DALY.
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Among neuromodulation procedures, electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves (PNS) is probably the most underappreciated modality. Although PNS is used for all kinds of medical conditions, ranging from chronic neuropathic pain and headache to epilepsy, depression, hypertension and heart failure, its importance is frequently overshadowed by spinal cord stimulation and deep brain stimulation.
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The term ?carcinoid' entered medical literature over 100 years ago to describe a peculiar intestinal epithelial neoplasm.
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177 Neurocognition and Social Cognition in Schizophrenia Patients
Basic Concepts and Treatment
Editors: V. Roder, Bern; A. Medalia, New York, N.Y.
XII + 178 p., 16 fig., 1 in color, 11 tab., hard cover, 2010. ISBN 978-3-8055-9338-0
178 Violence against Women and Mental Health
Editors: C. Garcia-Moreno, Geneva; A. Riecher-Riissler, Basel
XII180 p., 5 fig., 9 tab.
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An overview of current ultrasound modes ranging from experimental approaches to daily clinical practice
Diagnostic ultrasound has become an elementary tool for evaluating cerebrovascular diseases and plays a prominent role in routine clinical practice. Many publications attempt to cover the continuous progress of its diagnostic and even therapeutic applications.
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The latest knowledge of TIA as a medical emergency
Transient ischemic attack (TIA) is well known to be a prodromal syndrome of ischemic stroke. However, TIA is easily neglected or underestimated by patients or even general physicians because the symptoms naturally disappear without treatment. Despite this, early after the onset of TIA the patients are at very high risk of stroke.
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After decades of focusing on how to alleviate and prevent recurrence of acute CNS injuries, the emphasis has finally shifted towards repairing such devastating events and rehabilitation.
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Classical and modern literature is full of patients with interesting neurological, cognitive, or psychiatric diseases, often including detailed and accurate descriptions, which suggests the authors moere inspired by observations of real people. In many cases these literary portrayals of diseases even predate their forma) identification by medical science.
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Oropharyngeal dysphagia is a major complaint among many patients suffering from neurological diseases as well as in the elderly.
Its severity ranges from moderate difficulty to complete inability to swallow, and it may give rise to clinically relevant complications such as aspiration pneumonia, malnutrition and/or dehydration, impaired quality of life, and death.
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An intriguing and enlightening read
The third part of Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists presents painters, musicians, and writers who had to fight against an acute or chronic neurological disease. Sometimes this fight was without success (e.g.
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More on the relationship between brain disease and creativity
?Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 2' presents more writers, philosophers, musicians, painters and film directors who developed some form of neurological dysfunction and whose style and output changed following a stroke or other cerebral disorder.
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