From neuroscience to neurology : neuroscience, molecular medicine, and the therapeutic transformation of neurology / edited by Stephen Waxman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waxman, Stephen G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurosciences--History--Popular works.

Neurosciences.

Neurology--History--Popular works.

Neurology.

Nervous System Diseases--therapy.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Nervous System Diseases--therapy.

Genre:

Popular works.

Physical Description:

x, 513 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Mass : Elsevier Academic Press, [2005]

Summary:

Neurology is being transformed, from a therapeutically nihilistic discipline with few effective treatments, to a therapeutic specialty offering new, effective treatments for disorders of the brain and spinal cord. This remarkable transformation has bridged neuroscience, molecular medicine, and clinical investigation, and represents a major triumph for biomedical research. This book, which contains chapters by more than 29 internationally recognized authorities who have made major contributions to neurotherapeutics, tells the stories of how new treatments for disabling disorders of the nervous system, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and migraine, were developed, and explores evolving themes and technologies that offer hope for even more effective treatments, and ultimately cures, for currently untreatable disorders of the brain and spinal cord.

Contents:

Seeing the brain so we can save it: the evolution of magnetic resonance imaging as a clinical tool

Advances in the acute treatment and secondary prevention of stroke

Preserving function in acute nervous system injury

Slowing the progression of multiple sclerosis

The emergence of neurosurgical approaches to the treatment of epilepsy

The neurobiology of migraine and transformation of headache therapy

Botulinum toxins: transformation of a toxin into a treatment

Prospects for slowing the progression of Parkinson's disease

Current neurosurgical treatments for Parkinson's disease: where did they come from?

Treatable peripheral neuropathies: plasma exchange, intravenous immunoglobulin, and other emerging therapies

Molecular pharmacology and the treatment of Tourette's syndrome and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder

Neuroscience, molecular medicine, and new approaches to the treatment of depression and anxiety

Genomics, proteomics, and neurology

Neuroprotection: where are we going?

Prospects for gene therapy for central nervous system disease

Therapeutics development for hereditary neurological diseases

Inherited channelopathies of the CNS: lessons for clinical neurology

Inherited channelopathies of muscle: implications for therapy

Transcriptional channelopathies of the nervous system: new targets for molecular medicine

New molecular targets for the treatment of

neuropathic pain

Therapeutic transfer and regeneration of neural progenitors or neurons in gray matter of the adult brain

Cellular plasticity of the adult human brain

Harnessing endogenous stem cells for central nervous system repair

Neuropathies-translating causes into treatments

Therapeutic potential of neurotrophic factors

Promoting the regeneration of axons within the central nervous system

Alzheimer's disease: clinical features, neuropathological and biochemical abnormalities, genetics, models, and experimental therapeutics

Behavioral intervention and recovery from CNS damage

What functional brain imaging will mean for neurology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0127389032

OCLC:

56325090