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Adams and Victor's principles of neurology / Allan H. Ropper, Martin A. Samuels.
Levy Dental Medicine Library - Stacks RC346 .A3 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ropper, Allan H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neurology.
- Nervous system--Diseases.
- Nervous system.
- Neuropsychiatry.
- Nervous System Diseases.
- Mental Disorders.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nervous System Diseases.
- Mental Disorders.
- Physical Description:
- x, 1572 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- Ninth edition.
- Other Title:
- Principles of neurology
- Neurology
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, [2009]
- Contents:
- Approach to the patient with neurologic disease
- Special techniques for neurologic diagnosis
- Motor paralysis
- Abnormalities of movement and posture caused by disease of the basal ganglia
- Incoordination and other disorders of cerebellar function
- Tremor, myoclonus, focal dystonias, and tics
- Disorders of stance and gait
- Pain
- Other somatic sensation
- Headache and other craniofacial pains
- Pain in the back, neck, and extremities
- Disorders of smell and taste
- Disturbances of vision
- Disorders of ocular movement and pupillary function
- Deafness, dizziness, and disorders of equilibrium
- Epilepsy and other seizure disorders
- Coma and related disorders of consciousness
- Faintness and syncope
- Sleep and its abnormalities
- Delirium and other acute confusional states
- Dementia and the amnesic (korsakoff) syndorme with comments on the neurology of intelligence and memory
- Neurologic disorders caused by lesions in specific parts of the cerebrum
- Disorders of speech and language
- Fatigue, asthenia, anxiety, and depressive reactions
- The limbic lobes and the neurology of emotion
- Disorders of the autonomic nervous system, respiration, and swallowing
- The hypothalamus and neuroendocrine disorders
- Normal development and deviations in development of the nervous system
- The neurology of aging
- Disturbances of cerebrospinal fluid and its circulation, including hydrocephalus, pseudotumor cerebri, and low-pressure syndromes
- Intracranial neoplasms and paraneoplastic disorders
- Infections of the nervous system (bacterial, fungal, spirochetal, parasitic) and sarcoidosis
- Viral infections of the nervous system chronic meningitis, and prion diseases
- Cerebrovascular diseases
- Craniocerebral trauma
- Multiple sclerosis and allied demyelinating diseases
- Inherited metabolic diseases of the nervous system
- Developmental diseases of the nervous system
- Degenerative diseases of the nervous system
- The acquired metabolic disorders of the nervous system caused by nutritional deficiency
- Alcohol and alcoholism
- Disorders of the nervous sytem caused by drugs, toxins, and other chemical agents
- Diseases of the spinal cord
- Electrophysiologic and laboratory aids in the diagnosis of neuromuscular disease
- Diseases of the peripheral nerves
- Diseases of the cranial nerves
- Principles of clinical myology: diagnosis and classification of disease of muscle and neuromuscular junction
- The infectious and inflammatory myopathies
- The muscular dystrophies
- The metabolic and toxic myopathies
- The congenital neuromuscular disorders
- Myasthenia gravis and related disorders of the neuromuscular junction
- Ion channel disorders: the periodic paralyses and hereditary nondystrophic myotonias (channelopathies)
- Disorders of muscle characterized by cramp, spasm, pain, and localized masses
- The anxiety neuroses, hysteria, and personality disorders
- Depression and bipolar disease
- The schizophrenias and paranoid states.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Adams and Victor's principles of neurology / Allan H. Ropper, Robert H. Brown. 8th ed. c2005.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780071499927
- 007149992X
- OCLC:
- 243818452
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