CHAPTER 93 NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION Lysa Boissé, M. John Gill, Christopher Power Neurological disorders caused by the retrolentivirus human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), occur at all…
CHAPTER 110 UREA CYCLE DISORDERS E.A. Crombez, S.D. Cederbaum The urea cycle is a sequence of six enzymatic and two transport steps necessary to metabolize and excrete the nitrogen generated…
CHAPTER 58 CHRONIC DAILY HEADACHE Marcelo E. Bigal, Richard B. Lipton Chronic daily headache (CDH) of long duration is a clinical syndrome defined by headaches that occur for 4 hours…
CHAPTER 79 ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS AND PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY Richard T. Johnson Viral infections lead to a variety of demyelinating diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems in animals…
CHAPTER 8 COMA AND BRAIN DEATH Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld, Peter J. Lennarson Assessing the level of consciousness and diagnosing the cause of coma are fundamental aspects of medical practice. Consciousness…
CHAPTER 3 DISORDERS OF LANGUAGE Michael M. Saling There are two main schools of thought in the history of neurogenic language disorders, both of which have relevance to modern aphasiology….
CHAPTER 49 DEVELOPMENTAL DEFECTS AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Maxime Guye, Patrick Chauvel Developmental defects are among the most frequent causes of epilepsy, particularly of refractory epilepsy. They constitute a very broad range…
CHAPTER 66 AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS Kevin B. Boylan BACKGROUND Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder causing stereotypic motor impairment, commonly known in the United States as Lou…
CHAPTER 67 HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE Erika Driver-Dunckley, John N. Caviness Huntington’s disease is an autosomal dominant, progressive neurodegenerative disease that typically manifests in adulthood. The prevalence is estimated at 5 to…
CHAPTER 76 CLINICAL SPECTRUM: DEFINITION AND NATURAL PROGRESSION Rajas Deshpande, Marcelo Kremenchutzky, George P.A. Rice Once a neurological illness common in the Western and developed world, multiple sclerosis (MS) is…
