COMA AND BRAIN DEATH
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…
NEUROLOGY
DISORDERS OF LANGUAGE
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….
DEVELOPMENTAL DEFECTS AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
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…
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
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…
HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE
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…
CLINICAL SPECTRUM: DEFINITION AND NATURAL PROGRESSION
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…
PRION DISEASES
CHAPTER 95 PRION DISEASES Katherine Murray, Robert G. Will Although the human forms of prion disease, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), are rare, this group of fatal disorders of the central…
HYDROCEPHALUS, INCLUDING NORMAL-PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS
CHAPTER 63 HYDROCEPHALUS, INCLUDING NORMAL-PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS Noojan J. Kazemi, Andrew H. Kaye, Elsdon Storey Hydrocephalus is an abnormal enlargement of the ventricles caused by an excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid…
INFECTIVE NEUROPATHIES
CHAPTER 84 INFECTIVE NEUROPATHIES Joshua Kershen, Thomas Sabin While most peripheral neuropathies encountered by the clinical neurologist will have toxic or metabolic etiologies, it is very important to consider that…
INHERITED NEUROPATHIES
CHAPTER 82 INHERITED NEUROPATHIES Kinga Szigeti, James R. Lupski During the past decade, molecular genetics research has led to an exponential growth of knowledge of pathogenic genes and has suggested…
