Neurology and clinical neurophysiology

As modern science and medical technology increase the life span of man, the human skeleton is required to function for longer periods of time.

It is now widely accepted that there are important links between inactivity and lifestyle-related chronic diseases, and that exercise can bring tangible therapeutic benefits to people with long-term chronic conditions.

Event-Related Brain Potentials in Man contains the proceedings of a conference held on April 26-29, 1977, and sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health in Rockville, Maryland to assess the field of event-related brain potential (ERP) research.

The scope of this book is to disseminate dorsal rhizotomy for treating children with disabling, intractable spasticity caused by various pathologies.

Cellular Migration and Formation of Neuronal Connections, Second Edition, the latest release in the Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience series, presents the latest information on the genetic, molecular and cellular mechanisms of neural development.

Comprehensive, thoroughly updated, and expanded, Neuromuscular Disorders in Clinical Practice, Second Edition encompasses all disorders of the peripheral nervous system, covering all aspects of neuromuscular diseases from diagnosis to treatment.

Craniopharyngioma represents a major challenge for neurosurgeons, pediatricians, and endocrinologists.

From a preeminent researcher, this book looks at the key role of joint attention in both typical and atypical development.

Experimental Epilepsy

Neuromuscular Disorders: A Symptoms and Signs Approach to Differential Diagnosis and Treatment is a practical, evidence-based guide to diagnosis and management of neuromuscular disorders for clinicians.

Poetry is an engaging and inclusive activity for older people that can help develop memory, imagination and identity.

This book covers all diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of neuro-oncological diseases.

Psychoses due to physical disturbances involving the brain are common and can complicate a bewildering variety of illnesses.

Neurological early rehabilitation following injury to the nervous system has continuously evolved since the 1990s into a highly specialised discipline.

The new and updated edition of this book explains the key steps in planning and executing diagnostic test accuracy studies in dementia, serving as an introduction to the topic with clear explanations of difficulties and pitfalls.

Principles of Neurobiological Signal Analysis deals with the principles of signal analysis as applied to the electrical activity of the nervous system.

Curcumin for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders: Neurochemical and Pharmacological Properties focuses on the different molecular mechanisms underlying curcumin-mediated beneficial effects in neurological diseases.

Tremor represents one of the most common movement disorders worldwide.

How do teachers and parents of children with autism address a child's social skills?

RAPID Neurology & Neurosurgery The Rapids are a series of two-colour reference and revision pocket books that cover key facts in a simple and memorable way.

This book provides an overall introduction to the medical management of dementia with chapters dedicated to specific topics such as pain, epilepsy, vascular risk factors in dementia and review of medication, which are often not addressed in books on the subject, and thereby filling a gap in the field.

Neurons communicate with each other by releasing neurotransmitters.

This clinically focused book aims to cover for the first time all of the neurological aspects relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of spinal cord disease.

An unflinching look at the truth behind the medias lies about autism.

Since the publication of the previous edition of this volume, there has been substantial progress in a number of areas of multiple sclerosis (MS) research.

A key resource for psychiatrists and other clinicians working in forensic services with individuals who present with neurodevelopmental disorders.

What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?

Located at the interface between blood and the brain, the blood-brain barrier is a dynamic permeability barrier formed by a continuous layer of specialized endothelial cells endowed with important permeability, transport, and regulatory functions that both protect the internal milieu of the brain and allow essential nutrients to be transported into

The latest and most comprehensive resource on autism and related disorders Since the original edition was first published more than a quarter-century ago, The Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders has been the most influential reference work in the field.

The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias is an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of dementia for psychiatrists and other health care practitioners who deal with cognitively impaired adults in outpatient, inpatient, and long-term care settings.

This book establishes and specifies a rigorously scientific and clinically valid basis for nonpharmaceutical approaches to many common diseases and disorders found in clinical settings.

Making new friends at work can be tricky - it's tough to predict how people will react to certain situations.

Demenz ist eine neurologische Erkrankung mit einschneidenden sozialen Folgen.

Sensory Mechanisms

The New York Times has called adherence the world's "e;other drug problem.

Written by the lead author of the popular review book Ultimate Review for the Neurology Boards, Second Edition, this handy paperback is an essential tool for Board preparation and can be used independently or as a supplement to any review book.

Neurobiology of Addiction and Comorbid Disorders, Volume 156, in the International Review of Neurobiology series, highlights new advances in the field of neurobiology, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Pain + Alcohol, Pain + Opioids, Traumatic Stress + Alcohol, Traumatic Stress + Cannabinoids, Traumatic Brain Injury and the Misuse of Alcohol, Opioids, and Cannabis, Depression + Addiction, Microbiome/cytokines + Addiction, Cognitive disorders + Alcohol, Neural stem cells, Neurogenesis and Addiction, Food Addiction, and Poly-drug Addiction.

Describes management of neuroendovascular complications, focusing on tips and tricks for ''bailout'' procedures.

This informative and entertaining compilation of 50 short neurological cases demonstrates important principles in clinical localization and differential diagnosis.

Speech perception has been the focus of innumerable studies over the past decades.

Unmask the clinical complexity behind one of the most common neurological symptoms Headache is a common clinical complaint often overlooked by both sufferers and physicians that can be intimidating to approach and manage.

Practical for clinical use, this book contains diagnosis and management strategies for all disorders observed in stroke patients.

MRI has emerged as a powerful way of studying in-vivo brain structure and function in both healthy and disease states.

Central autonomic circuits in the brain and spinal cord are essential to vertebrate life because they are involved in controlling all basic bodily functions, including blood pressure, feeding, body temperature regulation voiding and reproduction.