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Beschreibung
This completely updated Second Edition represents a major revision with even more directed treatment guidelines, updated discussions relating to the possible cause(s), and assessments of the current and future role of surgical and innovative strategies.
This completely updated Second Edition represents a major revision with even more directed treatment guidelines, updated discussions relating to the possible cause(s), and assessments of the current and future role of surgical and innovative strategies.
Über den Autor
J. Eric Ahlskog, Ph.D., M.D., is Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Medical School, and Chair of the Mayo Section of Movement Disorders, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Widely considered to be a leading authority on this disorder, he has more than 30 years of experience treating people with Parkinson's Disease, both in the clinic as a full-time, patient-seeing neurologist, and as a clinical-investigator responsible for PD treatment protocols.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgments

  • 1. Background

  • Part I. Basic Facts about the Brain and Parkinson's Disease

  • 2. Primer on the Brain

  • 3. Parkinson's Disease: Changes in the Brain and Beyond

  • Part II. Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis and Prognosis

  • 4. How do I Know If I Have Parkinson's Disease?

  • 5. Prognosis

  • Part III.

  • 6. Conditions Mistaken for Parkinson's Disease

  • 7. Testing

  • Part IV. The Cause and Progression of Parkinson's Disease

  • 8. Clues to the Cause(s): Genes, Environment

  • 9. Drugs or Strategies to Slow Parkinson's Disease Progression?

  • Part V. The Movement Problems of Parkinson's Disease: Medication Rationale and Choices

  • 10. Medications for Movement Problems (Gait, Tremor, Slowness): Background and Rationale

  • 11. Starting Medical Treatment of Parkinson's Disease Movement Problems

  • Part VI. Beginning Treatment of Parkinson's Disease: Medication Guidelines

  • 12. Starting Levodopa Treatment

  • 13. Starting Dopamine Agonist Treatment

  • 14. Refractory Tremor Syndromes: "Medications Don't Help My Tremor! "

  • Part VII. The Early Years on Medications

  • 15. The First Few Years on Carbidopa/Levodopa Treatment

  • 16. The Early Years of Parkinson's Disease If Started on Other Drugs

  • Part VIII. Later Medication Inconsistency: Motor Fluctuations and Dyskinesias

  • 17. Later-Developing Movement Problems: Motor Fluctuations and Dyskinesias Treated with Levodopa Adjustments

  • 18. Supplemental Drugs for Motor Fluctuations and Dyskinesias

  • Part IX. Other Treatment Problems: Not Just a Movement Disorder

  • 19. Subjective Parkinson's Disease Symptoms Due to Dopamine Deficiency

  • 20. Sleep Problems: Insomnia, Daytime Sleepiness, and Nighttime Disruptions

  • 21. Orthostatic Hypotension and Other Causes of Dizziness

  • 22. Depression

  • 23. Thinking, Memory, and Dementia

  • 24. Hallucinations, Paranoia, Delusions, and Problematic Compulsive Behaviors

  • 25. Problems with Swallowing, Saliva, and Speaking

  • 26. Managing Digestive Problems and Constipation

  • 27. Urinary Symptoms

  • 28. Sexual Dysfunction, Estrogen, and Menstrual cycles

  • 29. Other Treatment Problems: Swelling, Skin rashes, and Visual symptoms

  • Part X. Nutrition, Exercise, Work, and Family

  • 30. Diets, Vitamins, Nutrition, Osteoporosis

  • 31. Exercise, Physical Medicine, and Physical Therapy

  • 32. Family, Friends, the Workplace, and Caregivers

  • Part XI. Surgery and Procedures for Parkinson's Disease: Present and Future

  • 33. Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and Other Brain Surgery for Parkinson's Disease

  • 34. Experimental Treatments: Fetal and Stem Cell Implantation; Neurotrophic Hormone and Gene Therapy; Vaccines and Immunotherapy

  • Part XII. Parkinson's Disease Information Services

  • 35. Support and advocacy groups; the Internet

  • Glossary

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Krankheiten
Genre: Importe, Medizin
Produktart: Ratgeber
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780190231866
ISBN-10: 0190231866
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Ahlskog MD, J Eric
Auflage: 2nd Revised edition
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 241 x 163 x 39 mm
Von/Mit: J Eric Ahlskog MD
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2015
Gewicht: 0,932 kg
Artikel-ID: 121048050