R.G.Gonzalez, J.A.Hirsch W.J.Koroshetz, M.H. Lev P. Schaefer (Eds.) 2006 Imaging and Intervention Acute ischemic stroke is treatable. Rapidly evolving imaging technology is revolutionizing the management of the acute stroke patient, and the field of acute stroke therapy is undergoing positive change.
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Scott H. Faro Feroze B. Mohamed 2006 Basic Principles and Clinical Applications Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) represents one of the most advanced and enlightening functional imaging techniques that has ever been developed. The past ten years (1990–2000) of scientific research has been designated the decade of the brain and has led to numerous technological developments and the establishment of […]
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M. Oehmichen R. N. Auer H.G. König 2006 The present textbook was written with the same intentions as Leestma introduced his excellent monograph (Forensic Neuropathology. Raven, New York, 1988), “to deal with those areas which have the most importance in forensic settings, are typical problem areas, or seem to be poorly understood by most forensic pathologists….”
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Edited by Hrayr P. Attarian 2006 A Guide to Practical Management Gender bias in medical research and care is a well-established fact. It has, fortunately, become less prevalent now than in the past, but still is a significant problem, especially in conditions traditionally thought of as male illnesses. Sleep medicine, a relatively young field, has not been immune […]
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Patrik Brundin C. Warren Olanow Editors 2006 Existing pharmacological treatments for Parkinson’s disease (PD) are largely focused on a dopamine replacement strategy. However, despite dramatic motor benefits with levodopa and other anti-parkinsonian agents, particularly in early disease, patients continue to suffer disability with chronic treatment and advancing disease.
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Mauro Mancia (Ed) 2006 The papers collected in this volume have the aim of integrating the contributions from two disciplines: psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Recent great developments in the latter offer the opportunity to build a bridge to psychoanalysis, providing an anatomo-functional basis for some of the functions in which the psychoanalytic theories of the mind are rooted.
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Edited by Dilip V. Jeste Joseph H. Friedman 2006 Although one of the editors is trained in both psychiatry and neurology (DJ), the other, not originally interested in behavioral problems at all, has come, through long clinical practice, to be increasingly convinced of the broad overlap between the two disciplines. This means that the lack of an appreciation […]
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Edited by Raphael Pinaud Liisa A. Tremere Peter De Weerd 2006 Light information represents the fastest and possibly the most physically complex source of physical energy processed by most mammals. All three editors share the bias that the visual system likely houses the most advanced evolutionary design for the encoding and efficient handling of sensory input.
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Editors B. Lorenz A.T.Moore 2006 In an era of increasing subspecialization pediatric ophthalmology stands out as the one area of ophthalmology where the generalist holds sway. The pediatric ophthalmologist must have a good working knowledge of general ophthalmology, have an understanding of visual development, visual electrophysiology and molecular genetics and be comfortable with dealing with children with a wide range of systemic disorders.
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P. Riederer, H. Reichmann, M. B. H. Youdim, M. Gerlach (eds.) 2006 It is our pleasure to present the Proceedings of the 16th International Congress on Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and Related Disorders (16th ICPD) which took place in Berlin from June 5–9, 2005. This congress was the most successful congress ever with more than 3500 participants in the roaring German […]
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