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Book SynopsisProviding comprehensive cover of Parkinson's Diseease diagnosis, testing, prognosis, and possible causes.
Trade Review"This is a valuable resource for practicing physicians who are charged with caring for patients with Parkinson's disease. The writing is clear and concise with a very practical approach to patient care that addresses every facet of the disease and its treatment."--Doody's "Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guide for Physicians offers the opportunity for a second opinion or at least a primary learning source...This work is clearly written and well referenced with up-to-date discussions that rival nearly anything out there in manuscript form." --Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota
Table of ContentsCONTENTS ; CONTRIBUTORS ; 1. Background ; 2. Clinical Basics: Understanding and Examining the Motor System ; 3. Basic Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy of Parkinson's Disease ; 4. Clinical Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease ; 5. Natural Progresion of Parkinson's Disease Over the Lifetime ; 6. Conditions Mistaken for Parkinson's Disease ; 7. Efficient Testing, Including Brain Imaging ; 8. Etiology and Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease ; 9. Strategies for Slowing PD Progresion ; 10. Overview: Available Drugs for Motor Problems of PD ; 11. Choosing the Initial Drug (Confronting Controversies) ; 12. Starting Treatment with Carbidopa/Levodopa ; 13. Starting Treatment with Dopamine Agonist Drugs ; 14. Parkinsonism-plus Syndromes, Levedopa Failures, and Refractory Tremor: Treatment Options ; 15. Problems that May Surface During the Firt Few Years of Levodopa Treatment ; 16. Initial Dopamine Agonist Therapy: Problems Surfacing After the First Year ; 17. Levodopa Adjustments to Treat Motor Instability: Motor Fluctuations, Dyskinesias ; 18. Adjunctive Drugs for Motor Fluctuations and Dyskinesias ; 19. Non-Motor Symptons Requiring Dopamine Replacement Therapy ; 20. Insomnia, Somnolence, and Other Sleep Disorders ; 21. Orthostatic Hypotension and Other Causes of Dizziness ; 22. Depression ; 23. Dementia ; 24. Hallucinations, Delusions, and Pathologic Behaviors ; 25. Dysphagia, Drooling, and Dysarthia ; 26. Constipation, Delayed Gastric Emptying ; 27. Urinary Symptons ; 28. Sexual Dysfunction, Estrogen, Menstrual Cycles ; 29. Other Common Problems: Edema, Rashes, Visual Symptons ; 30. Diets, Nutrition, and Osteoporosis Prevention ; 31. Exercise, Physical Therapy, and an Active Lifestyle ; 32. Societal and Occupational Issues: Caregivers ; 33. Surgery: Non-neurologic and PD Operations, including DBS ; 34. Future PD Treatment: Directing Resources and Counseling Patients ; 35. Clinical Rating Scales and Patient Resources ; Index
