Neurologic Disease A Modern Pathophysiologic Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment /

• Main Author: Meyer, Michael Andrew (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Neurology.; Psychiatry.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

This novel title explores the central and peripheral nervous system in health and disease. By first establishing a fundamental basic science knowledge about the cellular elements of the nervous system, the reader is then presented with clinical cases in a pathophysiologic manner, as exemplified in u...

Table of Contents:

• Preface From Synapse to Consciousness
• Chapter 1 Introduction to Differential Diagnosis in Neurology
• Chapter 2 Cellular and Sub-Cellular Elements of the Nervous System
• Chapter 3 Stroke
• Chapter 4 Epilepsy
• Chapter 5 Demyelinating Disease of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System: Guillain Barre and Multiple Sclerosis
• Chapter 6 The Hippocampus
• Chapter 7 Alzheimer's Disease
• Chapter 8 Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Chapter 9 Diseases of Skeletal Muscle
• Chapter 10 Diseases of the Spinal Cord
• Chapter 11 Cerebellum
• Chapter 12 The Visual Cortex
• Chapter 13 Infections of the Nervous System
• Chapter 14 Neoplastic Disease
• Chapter 15 Traumatic and Toxic Effects on the Nervous System
• Chapter 16 Conclusions.