Neglected Tropical Diseases and Conditions of the Nervous System

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bentivoglio, Marina (Editor), Cavalheiro, Esper A. (Editor), Kristensson, Krister (Editor), Patel, Nilesh B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Virology.; Public health.; Neurology.; Biomedicine.; Public Health.

A number of diseases and conditions that occur primarily in remote rural or poor urban areas of low-income countries have traditionally been neglected by the neuroscience research community. These diseases and conditions affect the nervous system directly (sometimes with lethal consequences) and/or...

Table of Contents:

• Overview on neglected and tropical diseases
• Travel, migration and neglected tropical diseases
• Stigma in neurological diseases at the Tropics
• Nematode infections: Neurological involvement and neurobiology
• Amoebiasis: Neurological involvement and neurobiology
• Neuroschistosomiasis
• Neurocysticercosis
• Neurocysticercosis: Neurology and neurobiology
• Onchocerciasis: Neurological involvement
• Human African trypanosomiasis: Neurobiology
• Chagas' disease: Neurology and neurobiology
• Neurodegeneration in leprosy: Insights from model systems and patients
• Rabies: Neurology
• Rabies: Neurobiology
• Japanese encephalitis and other arbovirus infections: Neurology and neurobiology
• Khat addiction: Neurology
• Khat addiction: Neurobiology
• Konzo: neurology of a permanent and non-progressive motor neuron
• Food preservation, snake venoms and stroke in the Tropics
• Infectious causes of epilepsy?
• Cognitive impairment and behavioural disturbances following malaria or HIV infection in childhood.