Scientific American molecular neurology
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Scientific American molecular neurology
(Scientific American introduction to molecular medicine)
Scientific American, c1998
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Molecular neurology
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Advances in molecular biology have allowed the progress made over the past decade in identifying genes causing neurologic disorders. This book, by a team of leading experts in the field, discusses recent discoveries, many of which still await a therapeutic application. Neurologists, psychiatrists, internists and others wishing to broaden their understanding of the basic pathogenic mechanisms underlying neurologic disease will value this book.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Molecular Basis of Mental Retardation: Fragile X Syndrome - Molecular Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease - Huntingdon's Disease and Other Trinucleotide Repeat Disorders - Genetics of Human Epilepsy Molecular Genetics of Brain Tumours - Molecular Approaches to Therapy of Stroke - Molecular Basis of HIV Associated Neurological Disease - The Pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Molecular Genetics of Peripheral Neuropathies - Ion Channel Defects in the Hereditary Myotonias and Periodic Paralyses Genetic Mitochondrial Disorders - Epilogue
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