The Clinical neurology of old age
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The Clinical neurology of old age
（A Wiley medical publication）
Wiley, c1989
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Description
This major textbook deals comprehensively with the neurological disorders of old age, and provides an essentially practical guide to their presentation and management. Forty specialist contributors give a broad range of coverage, discussing the influence of age on the pattern of disease, and giving an up-to-date account of changing knowledge of both the well-known and relatively unexplored areas of geriatric neurology. Practical approaches are given to symptoms such as giddiness, episodic loss of consciousness, headaches and confusional states which occur frequently in the elderly. The book also contains a large section on neurological rehabilitation.
Table of Contents
- The physical ageing of the neuromuscular system
- changes in mental functioning associated with normal ageing
- the influence of age on neurological recovery
- the neuroepidemiology of old age
- the neurological examination of the elderly patient
- neuroradiological investigation of the elderly
- cerebrovascular disease
- Parkinson's Disease and other Parkinsonian syndromes
- other movement disorders
- motorneurone disease
- diseases of muscle
- diseases of peripheral nerves
- autonomic dysfunction and abnormal vascular reflexes
- epilepsy
- tumours of the nervous system
- spinal cord and spinal root disease, secondary to diseases of the spine
- cranio-cerebral trauma
- infectious diseases of the nervous system
- paraneoplastic neurological syndromes
- neurological pain syndromes
- visual failure
- disturbances of hearing and balance
- neurological diseases usually acquired earlier in life
- drug-induced neurological disease
- dementia
- "funny turns", episodic loss of consciousness and falls
- headaches and facial pain
- recurrent acute confusional states
- the neuropathic bladder
- the assessment of the neurologically disabled elderly patient
- the role of remedial therapists
- aids for the neurologically disabled
- social services for the neurologically disabled
- counselling the neurologically disabled. (Part contents)
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