A.J. Larner 2014 Pragmatic Studies in the Cognitive Function Clinic What contribution(s) to the diagnosis and care of people with cognitive disorders can a neurology-led dementia clinic make? Naïve readers of recent United Kingdom policy documents such as the guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence/Social Care Institute for Excellence (NICE/SCIE; 2006) […]
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Federico E. Micheli • Peter A. LeWitt Editors 2014 Causes and Management Within the broad categories of neurologic diseases, the abnormal movement chorea (from Greek, choros , and from the Latin, choreus , both meaning dance) belongs among the conditions referred to as movement disorders. The field of movement disorders consists of both hypokinetic and […]
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Bradley K. Taylor • David P. Finn Editors 2014 Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences Volume 20 The physiological pain in humans that initially results from tissue injury is an unpleasant and aversive experience with sensory, cognitive, and motivational components. These interact to precipitate behavioral and psychological responses that serve essential survival functions, including protective behaviors […]
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Michael S. Ritsner Editor 2014 Neuropsychiatric And Physical Disorders To the best of my knowledge, this might be the first comprehensive oriented two- volume collection on anhedonia across neuropsychiatric and physical disorders. Anhedonia played an important role in psychopathology theories at the beginning of the twentieth century. It frequently occurs in mood disorders, as a […]
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Michael S. Ritsner Editor 2014 Conceptual Issues And Neurobiological Advances To the best of my knowledge, this might be the first comprehensive oriented two- volume collection on anhedonia across neuropsychiatric and physical disorders. Anhedonia played an important role in psychopathology theories at the beginning of the twentieth century. It frequently occurs in mood disorders, as […]
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Samer N. Narouze Editor 2014 Nerve Blocks and Beyond Nearly 20 % of headache patients are suffering from “medically resistant” headaches, which by definition do not respond to available pharmacological management. The rise of effective interventions has provided treatment options for individuals with this otherwise intractable headache. Over the past few years, interest in interventional […]
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Dario Carlo Alpini • Antonio Cesarani Guido Brugnoni 2014 Vertigo is one of the most frequently experienced physical disturbances and is probably also the most interdisciplinary symptom. As Thomas Brandt highlighted in his book “ Vertigo. Its Multisensory Syndromes ” [1], understanding vertigo may be approached through taking into account how vision, hearing, and proprioception […]
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Kimitaka Kaga 2014 Historically, one of the great physicians was André-Thomas, a pediatric neurologist who described how to observe postural response including labyrinthine righting reflexes. In otology and neurotology, there is increasing opportunity to see congenitally deaf infants with cochlear implants complicating vestibular loss. In deaf infants and children with loss of semicircular canal function, […]
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Toshiko Sawaguchi Editor 2014 From Pathophysiological Prospects Initially, this book was planned in tribute to the late professor André Kahn, who oversaw the world’s only successful physiological prospective study of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) at Brussels Free University (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Children’s Hospital in Belgium. Although a long time has passed since Professor Kahn […]
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Manfred Gerlach • Andreas Warnke Laurence Greenhill Editors 2014 Basic Pharmacology and Practical Applications This comprehensive book combines the scientific bases of psychopharmacology and the methods of the application of psychotropic drugs in the treatment of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. It is focused on up-todate knowledge necessary for state-of-the-art practice in pediatric psychopharmacology. […]
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