0

Neurology

Proceedings of the XIIIth World Congress of Neurology Hamburg, September 1-6,1985

Erschienen am 23.11.2011, 1. Auflage 1986
106,99 €
(inkl. MwSt.)

Lieferbar innerhalb 1 - 2 Wochen

In den Warenkorb
Bibliografische Daten
ISBN/EAN: 9783642700095
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: xiv, 498 S.
Einband: kartoniertes Buch

Beschreibung

InhaltsangabeOn the Dynamics Between Growth and Decline in the Aging of Intelligence and Memory.- 1 The Dementias.- Clinical Aspects of the Dementias.- Historical Overview of the Dementias.- The Descriptive Epidemiology of the Dementias.- Clinical Presentation of the Dementias.- The Evolution of the Diagnosis of Dementia: Past, Present and Future.- Brain Imaging in the Assessment of the Dementias.- Neuropsychological Approach to Dementia.- Clinical Management of the American Patient with Dementia.- Clinical Management in Europe of Patients with Dementia.- Research Issues in Alzheimer's Disease.- Analytic Epidemiology and Risk Factors in Alzheimer's Disease.- Classical and Modern Neuropathological Approaches to Alzheimer's Disease.- Structural Proteins in Alzheimer's Disease.- Energy Metabolism and Neurotransmitters in Alzheimer's Disease.- Differential Cell Loss in (Peptide) Neurons in the Anterior Hypothalamus with Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Lack of Changes in Cell Density.- The Dementias: A View to the Future.- The Dementias: A View to the Future.- 2 Brain and Behavior.- Mechanisms of Attention and Attentional Disorders. Session in Honor of the Late Dr. Norman Geschwind.- The Impact of Dr. Geschwind's Work on Neuropsychology.- Anatomical Basis of Spatial Attention.- The Contribution of Electrophysiology to the Study of Attention.- Representational Impairment as a Factor in Neglect.- Disorders of Visual Perception and Recognition.- Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms of Visual Perception.- Visual Agnosia for Objects.- Disorders of Face Recognition.- Recovery of Visual Field in Patients with Postgeniculate Damage.- Memory and its Disorders.- Is Vascular Thalamic Amnesia a Disconnection Syndrome?.- What Amnesics Can and Can Not Do.- 3 Neuroepidemiology and Clinical Trials.- Neuroepidemiology.- Neuroepidemiology as the Basis of Scientific Clinical Neurology.- Epidemiology of Cerebrovascular Disease: International Patterns.- Cerebrovascular Risk Factors.- Epidemiology of Epilepsy.- Epidemiology of Head Injury.- Discussion.- Environmental vs. Genetic Factors in Ischemic Cerebrovascular Disease.- Case-Control Study of Focal Cerebral Ischemia in Young Adults.- Guillain-Barré Syndrome Following (A/New Jersey/76) Influenza (Swine Flu) Vaccine: Epidemic or Artifact?.- Epidemiology of Head Injury: Future Perspective.- Epidemiology of Peripheral Neuropathies.- Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease.- Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis.- Overview of Motor Neuron Disease.- Discussion.- Epidemiology of Peripheral Neuropathies.- Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease - Relevance of the Risk Factors.- Discussion on Epidemiology of Motor Neurone Disease.- Clinical Trials.- Clinical Trials Relating to Epilepsy.- Clinical Trials Relating to Head Injury.- Clinical Trials Relating to Peripheral Neuropathy.- Discussion.- The European Stroke Prevention Study.- Clinical Trials Relating to Epilepsy.- Controlled Clinical Trials of Head Injury.- Discussion of Clinical Trials Relating to Peripheral Neuropathies.- Parkinson's Disease: Clinical Trials.- Clinical Trials Relating to Multiple Sclerosis.- The Clinical Relevance of Neuroepidemiology.- Discussion.- Clinical Trials in Parkinson's Disease.- Discussion on Kurtzke's: Clinical Trials in Multiple Sclerosis.- 4 Neuroimaging.- Neuroimaging: Preface.- Impact of Computerized Tomography in Neurology.- Transition from Computer Tomography to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Scanning.- Correlative Neuropathology in Neuroimaging.- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Central Nervous System.- Positron Emission Tomography and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging: New Perspectives in Neuroimaging.- Positron Emission Tomography with Oxygen-15 Radiopharmaceuticals.- PET Studies of Local Brain Metabolism During Sensory and Motor Tasks: Strategies, Results and Applications in Neurologic and Psychiatric Diseases.- Functional and Morphological Evaluation of the Cerebral Circulation by Ultrasound.- Application of Digital Subtraction Angi