Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders - Textbook with DVD

-Description-
This practical, clinical reference from the two leading movement disorder experts focuses on the
problems of diagnosing and managing all movement disorders. It features descriptions of the
disorders, rating scales for clinical research, neurochemistry, clinical pharmacology, genetics,
clinical trials, and experimental therapeutics. An accompanying 2-hour videotape contains several
hundred video clips with narration that illustrates the manifestations of various movement
disorders and their differential diagnoses.


-Key Features-


Uses a reader-friendly format, with diagrams, photographs, and tables, to make reference quick and
easy.
Includes a CD-ROM containing several hundred video clips with voice narration, keyed to the text,
to help you diagnose movement disorders.
Gives you just the information you need for the clinical approach to diagnosis and management, with
minimal emphasis on basic science.




-Table of Contents-





OVERVIEW SECTION
Chapter 1. Anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of basal ganglia (Jenner)

Chapter 2. Overview of movement disorders (Fahn) (definitions, categories, phenomenology,
assessments)

Chapter 3. Diagnostic evaluations of movement disorders (Jankovic)


SECTION ON HYPOKINETIC DISORDERS
Chapter 4. Concept, clinical features and DDx of parkinsonism (Jankovic)

Chapter 5. Cause(s) of Parkinson's disease (Jenner)

Chapter 6. Medical treatment of PD (Fahn)

Chapter 7. Surgical treatment of PD (Jankovic)

Chapter 8. Treatment of non-motor problems of PD (Fahn)

Chapter 9. Parkinsonism-plus syndromes (Jankovic)

Chapter 10. Gait disorders (Hallett)

Chapter 11. Stiff-person syndrome, spasticity and other syndromes of continuous motoneuron activity
(Hallett)


SECTION ON HYPERKINETIC DISORDERS
Chapter 12. Dystonia (Fahn)

Chapter 13. Treatment of dystonia (Jankovic)

Chapter 14. Huntington's disease (Jankovic)

Chapter 15. Chorea, Ballism and Athetosis (Jankovic)

Chapter 16. Tics (Jankovic)

Chapter 17. Stereotypies (Jankovic)

Chapter 18. Tremor and Myorhythmia (Jankovic)

Chapter 19. Drug-induced Mov. Disord. incl Tardive Dyskinesia Syndromes (Fahn)

Chapter 20. Myoclonus and startle syndromes (Hallett)

Chapter 21. Hereditary ataxias (Hallett)

Chapter 22. Paroxysmal dyskinesias (Fahn)

Chapter 23. Peripheral and Miscellaneous Movement Disorders (includes restless legs and abdominal
dyskinesias) (Hallett)

Chapter 24. Wilson's disease (Jankovic)

Chapter 25. Psychogenic movement disorders (Fahn)







-Author Information-



By Stanley Fahn, MD, Professor of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons,
Neurological Institute, New York, USA; and Joseph Jankovic, MD, Professor of Neurology and
Director, Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX