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Motor System Disorders, Part II

Spinal Cord, Neurodegenerative, and Cerebral Disorders and Treatment

  • 1st Edition, Volume 196 - August 22, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: David S. Younger
  • Language: English

Motor System Disorders, Volume 196, Part Two, Spinal Cord, Neurodegenerative, and Cerebral Disorders and Treatment provides a comprehensive review of research and best practice… Read more

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Motor System Disorders, Volume 196, Part Two, Spinal Cord, Neurodegenerative, and Cerebral Disorders and Treatment provides a comprehensive review of research and best practice clinical management of spinal cord, neurodegenerative, and cerebral disorders. Encompassing hereditary and acquired disorders from disease and accident, the book explores motor control disorders associated with stroke, dementia, seizure, encephalitis, and more. Covering disorders of both children and adults, the book discusses the latest advances in treatments related to neuroplasticity, neural tissue transplantation, and immunotherapy.

Key features

  • Summarizes assessment, disease course, and best practice treatment
  • Includes hereditary disorders and disorders from disease or accident
  • Discusses advances in neuroplasticity, tissue transplantation, immunotherapy, and other treatments
  • Reviews effects of dementia, stroke, seizure, encephalitis, cancer, and more

Readership

Practicing neurologists, research neurologists; General MDs interested in motor disfunction

Table of contents

1. Segmental Spinal Cord Syndromes

2. Spinal Muscular Atrophy

3. Syringomyelia and Chiari malformations

4. Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia

5. Primary lateral Sclerosis

6. Transverse Myelitis in Children and Adults

7. Progressive Spinal MS

8. Tropical Spastic Paraparesis

9. Cerebellar Ataxias

10. Bowel, Bladder and Sexual Disorders

11. Motor System Consequences of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

12. The Synucleinopathies

13. The Tauopathies

14. Genetic and Sporadic ALS

15. Paraneoplastic Motor Disorders

16. Non-Neoplastic Neuronal Autoantibody Encephalitides

17. Pediatric Post-Infectious Encephalopathies

18. Motor Sequela of Dementia

19. Motor Seizure Semiology

20. Motor Sequela of Stroke

21. Adult and Childhood Hydrocephalus

22. Cortical and Subcortical Visual Motor System Disorders

23. Essential Tremor

24. Primary and Secondary Dystonia

25. Frontal and Prefrontal Lobe Motor Syndromes

26. Parietal Lobe Motor Syndromes

27. Applied Strategies of Neuroplasticity

28. Treatment of Spasticity

29. Human-Robotics: Brain Computer Interface

30. Neural Tissue Transplantation

31. Botulinum Toxin for Motor Disorders

32. Tau Based Passive Immunotherapy

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 196
  • Published: August 22, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editor

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David S. Younger

David S. Younger MD DrPH, MPH MS, Affiliate Professor of Neuroscience at City University of New York Medical School and Attending Physician at White Plains Hospital, NY, has vast experience in both clinical and academic neurology and public health. He mentors students at his alma mater Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has been Board certified in Neurology, Internal Medicine, Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) and Neurophysiology (ABCN). As Associate Editor of the Seminars in Neurology he prepared the 1st edition of his widely-acclaimed textbook, Motor Disorders, now in its 4th edition. He is best recognized as a highly trained electrophysiologist and neuromuscular specialist. For the past decade his work has focused on autoimmunity of the nervous system and the use of immunotherapy and most recently, in COVID-19 neurological illnesses. He is the author of Human Lyme Neuroborreliosis, Science of Medical Cannabis, The Vasculitides, and The Autoimmune Brain; and he has been Guest Editor of the multiple volumes of the Neurological Clinics. He has also authored more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, correspondence and scientific abstracts on a wide variety of topics.
Affiliations and expertise
Affiliated Professor of Neuroscience, City University of New York Medical School, New York, NY, United States; Attending Physician in Neurology, White Plains Hospital, White Plains, NY, United States

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