Therapy of Parkinson's disease
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Therapy of Parkinson's disease
（Neurological disease and therapy, v. 34）
Dekker, c1995
2nd ed., rev. and expanded
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This work offers a comprehensive and fully updated overview of supportive patient management strategies, highlighting therapeutic approaches other that dopaminergic agents and conventional antiparkinsonian drugs. This second edition: reviews the neuroprotective effects of selegiline on Parkinson's disease; investigates ways of enhancing the effectiveness of levodopa-based therapy; presents methods of speech therapy with well-documented short- and long-term efficacy; and more.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 History of Parkinson's disease: the history of the medical therapy of Parkinson's disease. Part 2 Assessment, symptoms and sign, and basis of therapy: clinical rating scales and videotape analysis
- quantitative techniques of assessing motor disability
- therapies to extend duration of levodopa action
- magnetic resonance imaging and PET investigations of Parkinson's disease. Part 3 Pharmacologic agents: anticholinergic drugs in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
- amantadine in Parkinson's disease
- biochemical basis for levodopa therapy
- levodopa-based therapy
- levodopa infusion therapy
- long-acting levodopa preparations
- intracerebroventricular infusion of dopaminergic drugs
- dopamine agonists in Parkinson's disease
- the influence of bromocriptine on levodopa
- lisuride - a direct dopamine agonist in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
- pergolide. Part 4 Surgical approaches: stereotactic thalamotomies
- the effects of unilateral ventral-posterior medical pallidotoing in patients with Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's plus syndromes
- chronic high frequency thalamic stimulation in Parkinson's disease
- scientific basis for dopaminergic brain grafting
- transplantation of adrenal medullary tissue to brain in Parkinson's disease
- neurotransplantation. Part 5 Diet in therapy: dietary issues in the treatment of Parkinsonism
- management of late Parkinson's disease with L-Dopa - role of dietary protein redistribution. Part 6 Other therapeutic approaches: nondopaminergic therapy in Parkinson's disease
- treatment of autonomic nervous system disturbances in Parkinson's disease
- management of behavioral symptoms in Parkinson's disease
- treatment of depression in Parkinson's disease
- management of psychosis in Parkinson's disease
- electroconvulsive therapy in Parkinson's disease. (Part Contents).
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