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A Guide to Gender-based Issues in Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Treatment
XI, 243 p. 18 illus., 15 illus. in color. online resource.
This comprehensive resource covers a range of women's health issues and their intersection with neurologic and psychiatric disease. Chapters feature high quality, integrated information based on leading-edge research on gender-specific care and are grouped by reproductive years, pregnancy and health, and aging. Emerging science regarding sex differences in neurological and psychiatric illnesses, including anxiety, reproductive health, conversion disorders, depression and ethical issues in pregnancy, stroke risk factors, and successful aging strategies are covered along with clinical application of this knowledge to the delivery of care. In addition, in those medical problems that afflict both men and women, authors will point out the different risks, prevalence, presentations, and responses to treatments or outcomes in women. Written by renowned experts in the field, this textbook will thoroughly address the educational needs of physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in the areas of neurology, psychiatry, internal medicine, and obstetrics and expanding their understanding of concerns unique to female patients.
Issues in Women during their Reproductive years -- Migraine and Women -- Neurologic and Psychiatric Manifestations of Connective Tissue Disorders in Women -- Conversion & Dissociative disorders in Women -- Contraception in Neurologic and Psychiatric disorders -- Endocrine Disorders in Women with Neurologic and Psychiatric disease -- Anxiety & somatoform disorders -- Neuro- inflammatory Disorders in Women -- Pregnancy -- Pregnancy- normal physiology -- Epilepsy and Pregnancy -- Headaches in Pregnancy & Postpartum- a practical approach -- Pregnancy and Stroke.-Demyelinating disease & Pregnancy -- Pregnancy and Postpartum Risks of Women with Depression and Bipolar Disease -- Ethical Decisions in Pregnancy -- Women's Health and Aging -- Menopausal hot flashes, sleep and mood disturbances -- Stroke Risk Factors in Women -- Women & Alzheimer's disease.-Successful Aging.