Bookedited by Anthony Schapira, Zbigniew Wszolek, Ted Dawson, Nicholas Wood.
Summary: This book unites the diverse range of complex neurodegenerative diseases into a textbook designed for clinical practice, edited by globally leading authorities on the subject.-Presents a clinically oriented guide to the diseases caused by neurodegeneration -Templated chapters combine clinical and research information on neurodegenerative diseases beginning with the common elements before treating each disease individually -Diseases are grouped by anatomical regions of degeneration and include common disorders such as Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Motor Neuron Disease, and Multiple Sclerosis as well as less common diseases -Edited by globally leading authorities on the subject, and written by expert contributing authors.
Contents:
Pathology of brain aging / Janna H. Neltner and Peter T. Nelson
Protein aggregation and neurodegeneration : tauopathies and synucleinopathies / Michel Goedert
Prion degeneration / James A. Mastrianni
Excitotoxicity / Mark P. Mattson
Aetiology and pathogenesis of Parkinson disease / Ruth-Mary deSouza and Anthony H.V. Schapira
Parkinson's disease: treatment options? surgical therapy / Travis S. Tierney and Andres M. Lozano
Multiple system atrophy (MSA): clinical, genetics and neuropathology / Lucia V. Schottlaender [and 5 others]
Progressive supranuclear palsy / Huw R. Morris
Dementia with lewy bodies / Rodolfo Savica and David S. Knopman
Corticobasal degeneration / Keith A. Josephs
Alzheimer's disease / Qurat ul Ain Khan and Neill R. Graff-Radford
Frontotemporal dementia / Christian Wider, Barbara Jasinska-Myga and Zbigniew K. Wszolek
Prion diseases and other rapidly progressive dementias / Eric Eggenberger and Daniel L. Murman
ALS and PLS / Kevin B. Boylan, Mark A. Ross and Eric J. Sorenson
Hereditary spastic paraplegia / Pawel P. Liberski and Craig Blackstone
Spinal muscular atrophy / Joseph R. Wooley, Melissa E. Crowder, Noah J. Pyles and Charlotte J. Sumner
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy disease) / Erich Peter Bosch
Optic neuropathies / Desmond Kidd
Peripheral nerve neuropathies including CMT disease / Amelie Pandraud and Henry Houlden
Axonal loss and neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis / Ranjan Dutta, Jacqueline Chen, Nobuhiko Ohno, Daniel Ontaneda and Bruce D. Trapp
Neurodegeneration : Huntington's disease and other choreas / Salman Haider, Edward Wild and Sarah J. Tabrizi
Spinocerebellar ataxias / H. Brent Clark and Harry T. Orr
Ataxia telangiectasia / Malcolm Taylor
Niemann-Pick disease / Marc C. Patterson
X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy / Deborah L. Renaud
Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation, Wilson disease, manganism / Alisdair McNeill.