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During the last three decades, many laboratories worldwide have dedicated their research activities to understanding the roles of the cerebellum in motor control, cognitive processes and the biology of mental processes, behavioral symptoms and emotion. These advances have been associated with discoveries of new clinical disorders, in particular in the field of genetic ataxias, and the growing number of diseases presents a source of difficulty for clinicians during daily practice. This practical guide summarizes and evaluates current knowledge in the field of cerebellar disorders. Encompassing details of both common and uncommon cerebellar ataxias, including vascular, immune, neoplastic, infectious, traumatic, toxic and inherited disorders, this book will assist clinicians in the diagnosis and management of the full spectrum of cerebellar ataxias encountered in daily practice. Essential reading for clinicians, including general practitioners, neurologists, pediatricians, radiologists, psychiatrists and neuropsychologists, this will also prove a valuable tool for students, trainees and researchers. ... Read more

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This text examines the most common clinical disturbances affecting the cerebellum and examines disorders that appear to be related to this part of the brain, highlighting the impact of new neuro-imaging techniques and advances in molecular genetics. It provides many state-of-the-art computerized tomography and magnetic resonance illustrations, designed to familiarize the clinician with normal and abnormal cerebellar features.;Written by international authorities in the field, the Handbook of Cerebellar Diseases, amongst other things: details the signs and symptoms of hereditary disturbances of co-ordination, as well as their genetic bases and risks; presents exercises in molecular genetics that explain where the current investigations into hereditary degenerative diseases are leading; offers therapies, such as the management of cerebellar tumours and approaches to congenital anomalies, which take recent progress into account; covers slow-viral diseases, paraneoplastic disorders, vascular diseases, demyelination and toxic damage, and considers treatment options wherever they exist; and discusses tremors in-depth, as well as the clinical aspects of progressive ataxias. ... Read more

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Klinik fur Neurochirurgie, Germany.Proceedings of the 44th annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Neurochirurgie, Marburg, Germany, May 2-5, 1993. Clinical research for neurosurgeons. Illustrated. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Brain and Cognition, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We have hypothesized a distinction between the processes required to control the timing of different classes of periodic movements. In one class, salient events mark successive cycles. For these movements, we hypothesize that the temporal goal is a requisite component of the task representation, what we refer to as event-based timing. In the other class, the successive cycles are produced continuously. For these movements, alternative control strategies can optimize performance, allowing timing to be emergent. In a previous study, patients with cerebellar lesions were found to be selectively impaired on event-based timing tasks; they were unimpaired on a continuously produced task. In the present study, patients with Parkinson's disease were tested on repetitive movement tasks in which timing was either event-based or emergent. Temporal variability on either type of task did not differ between on- and off-medication sessions for the Parkinson's patients nor did patient performance differ from that of controls. These results suggest that the basal ganglia play a minimal role in movement timing and that impairments on event-based timing tasks are specific to cerebellar damage. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Southern Medical Journal, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1357 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Malignant pleural mesothelioma with scalp, cerebellar, and finger metastases: a rare case.(Disease/Disorder overview)
Author: Asiye Kanbay
Publication: Southern Medical Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 100Issue: 1Page: 63(3)

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Neurology Joins the Lange CURRENT Series!

Authored by renowned authorities in the field, CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in Neurology provides a reliable, current, and ready reference for primary care physicians managing patients with neurologic disorders. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Great quick reference
This is a fabulous book for quick references and diagnoses.I find it very useful for both the classroom and clinical scenes.

a patient's review
Since neurology is so complex, neurology appointments are so short, and I have so many questions about what is going on in my head, I decided to educate myself on the subject. After reading 'Adrenaline, the Inner World', I moved on to this text.I was pleasantly surprised that the text is well organized, the narrative is clear, simple and direct and on the whole, eminently readable.I applaud this text for being neither too simple nor too complex for a relatively well educated person to understand. Thanks

khinpenn
This book was a perfect compliment to MKSAP when studying for the boards.Easy to read.Gets right to the point.Nice reference text.

Great for intermediates and updated treatment guidelines
This book is great for a quick review of specific diagnoses and common laboratory techniques, and it has many useful tables suited for "point of care". Treatment guidelines are often more updated and clear than those given in the big books (i.e. "Neurology in Clinical Practice" and "Adam And Victor's").

It is not recommended if you are a beginner in neurology, because it dose not deal with examinations skills or a differential approach by symptoms and signs. In the latter case I strongly recommend "Clinical Neurology (Lange Medical Books) by the great Michael J. Aminoff and the general neurology chapters in Harrisons, especially "Approach to the Patient with Neurologic Disease, ...with Peripheral Neuropathy, and ...with Muscle Disease". The general section in Harrisons: "Nervous System Dysfunction" and some specific chapters (Seizures and Epilepsy, MS, WD and many others) are also recommended.

To make this book even better I would suggest the authors to expand the sections on differential diagnoses listed for each major disease topic, i.e. to highlight the most characteristic features distinguishing among related diagnoses. Also inclusion of more diagnostic criteria would be nice (e.g. IHS).

Overall a great book if it is used properly. Already looking forward to a new and updated edition

"His excellency"
A great book, really helpful. Wonderful chapters about Infections (including HIV), dementias, movement dis...etc, it has some weak points: aphasia, apraxia, but its ok, nothing is perfect. Great treatments!! I really,really recommend it! ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Brain and Language, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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It is widely accepted that the cerebellar and basal ganglia control circuits contribute to the programming of movement. Converging evidence from neuroimaging, limb control, and neuropsychological studies suggests that (1) people with cerebellar disease have reduced ability to program movement sequences in advance of movement onset and (2) people with Parkinson's disease are unable to maintain a programmed response or to rapidly switch between responses. Despite a substantial supporting literature, no studies have addressed these potential areas of speech programming disruption for speakers with ataxic and hypokinetic dysarthria. Control participants and adults with dysarthria completed speech reaction time protocols designed to capture these aspects of utterance preparation. Results provided initial support for processing deficits in speakers with ataxic and hypokinetic dysarthria that are separable from motor execution impairments. ... Read more

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This book encompasses basic and clinical reports on thecerebellum and its primary atrophic disorders, the cerebellardegenerations. Rapid progress has been made in understanding theorganization and function of the cerebellum at the neuronal, synapticand molecular level. Of particular importance has been theidentification of the chemical transmitters utilized by the cerebellarcellular systems. More than any other brain region the cerebellumutilizes amino acids as its main excitatory and inhibitoryneurotransmitters. Excitatory amino acid transmitters, in addition toserving neuronal communication, may also mediate trophic and toxiceffects and, as such, they may play a role in neurodegenerativeprocesses.
This volume will be useful to clinicians who care for patients withcerebellar disorders as well as to the basic and the clinicalinvestigators whose work concerns the cerebellum. Knowledge ofadvances occurring in basic sciences will help the clinicalinvestigator to develop new approaches and therapeutic strategies forthese presently intractable human disorders. Also the basicinvestigator will benefit from the study of human disorders byidentifying new research leads provided by these intractable -- yetfascinating -- afflictions.
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There has been a paradigm shift in the understanding of the role of the cerebellum in the nervous system, which is now suggested to be an integral component of the distributed neural circuitry, subserving even higher order functions, traditionally linked to the integrity of cerebral cortex. One of these functions is reading, which is one of the most prominent learned competencies in humans. The pathophysiology of dyslexia is largely unknown. It is usually related to brain cortical alteration. Recent evidence suggests dyslexia may involve binocular instability or alterations of accommodation. This book describes the possible role of the cerebellum in reading tasks, either considering its emergent role in mentation, either considering its traditional role in motor control. It examines the possible involvement of cerebellum in reading, which may be caused by an alteration of the diffuse projections which connect the cerebellum to different cortical areas via subcortical structures, by its involvement in spatial perception, in timing processing of cortical flow of information, and by a possible intrinsic property of the structure in cognition. ... Read more

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Targeted to patients, their families and allied health students, The “Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders” provides in-depth coverage of neurological diseases and disorders, including stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, Tourette Syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, cerebral palsy, vertigo, amnesia and epilepsy. Related topics include communication aids, electric personal assistive mobility devices, medications for treating neurological diseases and conditions, understanding the needs of Alzheimer patient caregivers and more. This two-volume set provides an alternative to resources that either fail to explore neurological disease in any depth and or do so at a level not appropriate for students and general readers.