CHAPTER 97 THE NEUROLOGICAL VASCULITIDES Neil Scolding Disorders caused by immunological or inflammatory disturbances affecting the nervous system account for a wide range of neurological diseases. They include primary or…
CHAPTER 121 NEUROLOGY OF CEREBRAL PALSY Geoffrey Miller CLASSIFICATION AND CLINICAL FEATURES The term cerebral palsy is not a diagnosis, nor does its use denote a specific etiology or degree…
CHAPTER 69 HEREDITARY SPASTIC PARAPLEGIAS* John K. Fink The hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs), also known as familial spastic paraplegia and Strümpell-Lorrain disease (per Dorland’s),1 constitute a group of more than…
CHAPTER 117 NEUROLOGY OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTIONS John C.M. Brust DEFINITIONS Substance dependence is of two types. Psychic dependence consists of craving and drug-seeking behavior. Physical dependence consists of…
CHAPTER 114 NEUROLOGY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY Ronald F. Pfeiffer The enteric nervous system within the gut wall, replete with its neuronal networks and numerous neurotransmitters, mirrors many aspects of…
CHAPTER 64 TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA AND OTHER FACIAL PAIN Alan Stiles, James Evans HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS Trigeminal neuralgia has been identified in the medical literature as the classic neuropathic pain syndrome. The…
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…
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…
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…
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…
