Neurology and clinical neurophysiology

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a distinctive abnormality of small cerebral blood vessels, one that has intrigued neuroscientists for decades.

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The search for drugs to alter learning and memory processes in animals and man has its roots in mythology as well as the history of medicine.

This short text is designed to present those aspects of the behavioral sciences that are clinically relevant to physicians in all branches of medicine.

This book constitutes a compilation and integration of the latest advances in the management of cluster headaches.

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There are almost as many explanations for psychiatric disorders as there are patients with them.

This book is written for the clinician who cares for adult patients with organic mental disease-with dysfunction of the brain producing mental symptoms.

Many of the greatest strides in medical care have neither been glamorous nor made the front page of The New York Times.

Many of the greatest strides in medical care have neither been glamorous nor made the front page of The New York Times.

As a medical student in the 1930s, I remember well that a very clear line of distinction was drawn between physical illness and mental illness.

This comprehensive textbook illustrates the excitement and the difficulties of working at the interface between pure and applied research.

The contents of this volume are based upon the proceedings of a Sympo- sium entitled "e;Infectious Diseases of the Central Nervous System"e; held in Phoenix, Arizona, and sponsored by the Barrow Neurological Institute and Foundation during its Ninth Annual Symposium.

The Symposium on the Neural Basis of Behavior, from which this volume was produced, was held at the Alfred I.

In recent years there has been much interest in clinical pharmacology and its ap- plication to the treatment of disease, including disease of the nervous system.

The story of the benzodiazepines is a fascinating one: the synthesis of a long series of inert compounds and the abandonment of the project: months later, the renewal of the project and the discovery that this compound R05-0690 (Librium (R)) was a sedative and muscle relaxant in laboratory animals: the recognition that its postulated structure was wrong and that it was in fact a member of an entirely new chemical class: the excitement caused by the discovery of the powerful taming effect of the drug in wild animals: the even greater excitement in medical circles when its dramatic anxiety relieving effects were cstablished in humans: the subsequent enormous world- wide usc of drugs of the benzodiazepine group.

The field of Addiction Studies is often one in which highly specialized investigations in narrowly defined areas of concern, provide results which are not immediately or easily transferable to the practical problems faced in society.

In the developed world, images of brain structure are available as an everyday diagnostic aid, and the characteristic appearances of most pathological conditions can be looked up in a textbook.

A critical summary of the state of the art of PET technology and related disciplines (camera physics, radiochemistry, radiopharmacology, computerised brain atlases and databases, etc.

Intracranial injury, caused by a transorbital penetrating object, is a neglected topic in neurosurgery.

Autoimmune myasthenia gravis (MG) is a classical autoimmune disease, for which the target antigen, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, has been cloned, sequenced and biochemically characterized.

Many groups of biologically important compounds experience cycles of furious research activity and near oblivion.

Although anecdotal reports of loss of once-acquired reading ability was noticed in the individuals who had sustained brain damage as early as the year AD.

One of the most fascinating problems in Behavioural Neurology is the question of the cerebral organization for language during childhood.

cytochemical techniques (ICC) which provide a useful adjunct to investigations by immunoblotting.

NEUROTOX '91 was the fourth meeting in a series which started in 1979.

This book is unique in that it brings together in one place an account of recent advances in our understanding of the biology of dyslexia.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the invited lectures of the Second International Sym- posium on SEROTONIN from Cell Biology to Pharmacology and Therapeutics held in Houston, Texas September 15-18, 1992.

Despite numerous reports of cerebral damage in cardiac surgery, the subject has not been given the attention it requires.

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Molecular and Cell Biology of Muscular Dystrophy gives a series of accounts of various aspects of the remarkable breakthrough which has been achieved in our understanding of the Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies and of the consequences and ramifications of this breakthrough.

Because of the topographic and pathophysiologic information obtained with contemporary neuroimaging techniques, CT and MR scanning now constitute the most important investigation in clinical neurology.

Surgery for the treatment of deformities such as scoliosis carries a small but significant risk of damage to the spinal cord through inadvertent compression or interference with the blood supply.

Modern research in neural networks has led to powerful artificial learning systems, while recent work in the psychology of human memory has revealed much about how natural systems really learn, including the role of unconscious, implicit, memory processes.

A critical review of the literature on written expression disorders of individuals with learning disabilities.

As the number of drugs acting on calcium and potassium channels grows, there is a need for a continuous reappraisal of the cellular machinery controlling them.

The past few years have seen the publication of a large number of articles and not a few books on the subject of relief of intractable pain.

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The present book is the product of conferences held in Bielefeld at the Center for interdisciplinary Sturlies (ZiF) in connection with a year-long ZiF Research Group with the theme "e;Prerational intelligence"e;.

Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Metabolism in Liver Failure contains research reports and state-of-the-art reviews that were presented at the 11th International Symposium on Hepatic Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Metabolism in relation to liver disease, that was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 30 May to 1 June, 2002.

This book represents tangible results of the Institute of Applied Physiology and Medicine's objectives of bringing into clinical application the concepts and results of bioengineers and physiologists.