CHAPTER 20 CONVERSION AND DISSOCIATION SYNDROMES Christopher Bass Social historians have confidently asserted that conversion hysteria has disappeared from clinical practice, to be replaced by syndromes characterized by fatigue and…
CHAPTER 46 CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS Gian Luigi Lenzi, Alessio Mercurio, Marta Altieri Cerebral vein and sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a rare event in comparison with arterial stroke, accounting for less…
CHAPTER 74 EPIDEMIOLOGY AND GENETICS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Jan D. Lünemann, Roland Martin Multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that usually begins in…
CHAPTER 119 NEUROLOGY OF RHEUMATOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY, AND TRANSPLANTATION Richard Rosenbaum Evaluation of patients with rheumatic, inflammatory, or post-transplantation neurological syndromes is challenging because these patients can have a wide variety…
CHAPTER 86 THE CONGENITAL MYOPATHIES Heinz Jungbluth, Caroline A. Sewry, Francesco Muntoni The congenital myopathies are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of congenital muscle disorders with characteristic structural abnormalities…
CHAPTER 108 WILSON DISEASE John H. Menkes Wilson Disease is an autosomal recessive disorder of copper metabolism caused by mutations in the ATP7B gene. The gene product, a P-type adenosine…
CHAPTER 120 NEUROLOGY OF PULMONOLOGY AND ACIDBASE DISTURBANCE Boby Varkey Maramattom, Eelco F.M. Wijdicks Respiration is essential for cellular metabolism, and no other organ is more dependent on oxygen supply…
CHAPTER 80 THE LEUKODYSTROPHIES Hugo W. Moser, Sakkubai Naidu The leukodystrophies are now defined as disorders that (1) have a known or presumptive genetic cause; (2) have a progressive clinical…
CHAPTER 87 CHANNELOPATHIES OF MUSCLE (INCLUDING THE MYOTONIC DYSTROPHIES) Fiona Norwood, Michael Rose Channelopathies are disorders resulting from alterations in function of the ion channels found in cell membranes throughout…
