CHAPTER 118 NEUROLOGY OF ENDOCRINOLOGY Rexford S. Ahima, Malaka B. Jackson CLASSIFICATION OF HORMONES Multicellular organisms have developed complex mechanisms to ensure regulation of metabolism. Although the nervous system and…
CHAPTER 90 NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION DISORDERS Angela Vincent, Camilla Buckley, Georgina Burke The neuromuscular junction is a prototype synapse but one that is accessible to circulating factors, which makes it a…
CHAPTER 103 HEAD TRAUMA H. Gordon Deen Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability in the United States and many other parts of the world….
CHAPTER 36 GAIT DISTURBANCES AND FALLS Nir Giladi, Bastiaan R. Bloem, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff Gait, the action of walking from one place to another on two legs, is one of…
CHAPTER 61 IDIOPATHIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION Deborah I. Friedman*, Despite refinements in terminology and diagnostic criteria since it was initially described by Quincke in 1897, idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) remains a…
CHAPTER 21 EXAMINATION OF THE VISUAL SYSTEM Desmond Kidd VISUAL ACUITY A sizeable minority of patients who are referred to a neuro-ophthalmology clinic have a refractive error as the only…
CHAPTER 111 ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS AND DISORDERS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM Jean Lud Cadet, Karen I. Bolla Individual cases of lead poisoning were reported as early as 200 B.C. Nevertheless, the…
CHAPTER 40 SPINAL DISEASE: NEOPLASTIC, DEGENERATIVE, AND INFECTIVE SPINAL CORD DISEASES AND SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION Shalini A. Amukotuwa, Mark J. Cook The long, cylindrically shaped spinal cord sits within the…
CHAPTER 88 METABOLIC MYOPATHIES (INCLUDING MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES) Patrick F. Chinnery, Douglass M. Turnbull Muscle contraction is dependent on the high-energy molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and deficiency of ATP synthesis leads…
