REHABILITATION AFTER STROKE
CHAPTER 48 REHABILITATION AFTER STROKE Richard Greenwood, Nick Ward Stroke, or vascular brain injury, has an incidence of between about 1.1 and 2.6 per 1000 adults1 and a prevalence of…
ENCEPHALOPATHIES
CHAPTER 107 ENCEPHALOPATHIES Juan M. Pascual CONCEPT AND CONTEXT OF NEUROMETABOLIC DISEASES Metabolic disorders constitute an expanding group of diseases comprising such heterogeneous conditions that a uniform introductory definition becomes…
TREATMENT OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
CHAPTER 78 TREATMENT OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Richard Lango, Steven R. Schwid The ultimate goals of multiple sclerosis therapy are to stop ongoing inflammatory and degenerative processes that lead to central…
HEADACHE PATHOGENESIS
CHAPTER 55 HEADACHE PATHOGENESIS Michael L. Oshinsky Headache is a broad term that encompasses most of the pain syndromes that involve the head and upper neck. Headache is much more…
ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION
CHAPTER 28 ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION Horacio Kaufmann, Italo Biaggioni Maintenance of upright posture is made possible by rapid cardiovascular adaptation that ensures blood flow to vital organs, including the brain, and…
EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND ITS ASSESSMENT
CHAPTER 7 EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND ITS ASSESSMENT Glynda Kinsella, Elsdon Storey, John R. Crawford EXECUTIVE FUNCTION The dysexecutive syndrome has long been exemplified by the classic case of Phineas Gage,…
VASCULAR DEMENTIA
CHAPTER 47 VASCULAR DEMENTIA Gustavo C. Román Cerebrovascular disease constitutes a well-defined cause of dementia first recognized by Sir Thomas Willis in 1672 under the name postapoplectic dementia. Vascular dementia…
PRINCIPLES OF NEUROPSYCHOMETRIC ASSESSMENT
CHAPTER 2 PRINCIPLES OF NEUROPSYCHOMETRIC ASSESSMENT Elsdon Storey, Glynda Kinsella It might legitimately be asked why this chapter was written by both a neurologist and a neuropsychologist. The answer, in…
