CHAPTER 31 ORGANIZATION: PYRAMIDAL AND EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYSTEM Glenda M. Halliday, Simon C. Gandevia The large brains of primates have afforded remarkable behavioral adaptability. In humans, this adaptability is manifested in…
CHAPTER 57 TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE Messoud Ashina Tension-type headache, the most common of the primary headaches,1,2 has tremendous socioeconomic effects.2,3 For many years, various terms such as tension headache, muscle contraction…
CHAPTER 53 DRUG TREATMENT Edward B. Bromfield Treatment of epilepsy begins as soon as the diagnosis is made. Typically, this occurs after the second unprovoked seizure, but ancillary data, such…
CHAPTER 15 PRIMARY DISORDERS OF SLEEP John W. Winkelman, Milena Pavlova Difficulty with the regulation of sleep and wake states is present in up to 25% of the general population…
CHAPTER 18 SCHIZOPHRENIA AND SCHIZOPHRENIA-LIKE PSYCHOSIS Gary Price, Maria A. Ron The first part of this chapter deals with schizophrenia as a primary illness, and the second describes schizophrenia-like features…
CHAPTER 39 PRIMARY MYELOPATHIES (DEGENERATIVE, INFECTIVE, METABOLIC) Mark Paine A number of conditions may selectively involve the spinal cord; some of these conditions also involve other neural tissues, to a…
CHAPTER 30 PRIMARY AUTONOMIC FAILURE Felix Geser, Gregor K. Wenning CLASSIFICATION A convenient approach to the syndromes of autonomic failure is to distinguish those of the primary variety, in which…
CHAPTER 25 EXAMINATION OF HEARING AND BALANCE Brian C. Kung, Thomas O. Willcox, Jr. Hearing loss and balance disorders are two of the most common reasons that patients visit their…
CHAPTER 29 BLADDER AND SEXUAL FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION Ronald F. Pfeiffer The autonomic nervous system is sometimes perceived by neurologists as a somewhat mysterious, even miasmic, component of the nervous…
CHAPTER 26 AUDITORY SYSTEM DISORDERS Thomas O. Willcox, Gregory J. Artz Hearing loss can be defined as an increase in the threshold of sound perception. Understanding speech and the general…
