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The book comes directly from the continuing education course "Movement Disorders for the Clinical Practitioner" neurologists Fahn (Columbia U.) and Joseph Jankovic (Baylor College, Houston) taught with C. David Mardsen (1938-98), and then with Mark Hallett (National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke). They update the 2007 first edition to keep up with the rapidly changing understanding of movement disorders and the underlying science. Among the topics are the physiology of voluntary and involuntary movements, current concepts on the etiology and pathogenesis of Parkison disease, the pathophysiology and clinical syndromes of gait disorders, stiffness syndromes, the treatment of dystonia, tics and Tourette syndrome, tremors, the parosxysmal dyskinesias, and Wilson disease. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders provides the complete, expert guidance you need to diagnose and manage these challenging conditions. Drs. Stanley Fahn, Joseph Jankovic and Mark Hallett explore all facets of these disorders, including the latest rating scales for clinical research, neurochemistry, clinical pharmacology, genetics, clinical trials, and experimental therapeutics. This edition features many new full-color images, additional coverage of pediatric disorders, updated Parkinson information, and many other valuable updates. An accompanying Expert Consult website makes the content fully searchable and contains several hundred video clips that illustrate the manifestations of all the movement disorders in the book along with their differential diagnoses.Get just the information you need for a clinical approach to diagnosis and management, with minimal emphasis on basic science. Find the answers you need quickly and easily thanks to a reader-friendly full-color format, with plentiful diagrams, photographs, and tables. Apply the latest advances to diagnosis and treatment of pediatric movement disorders, Parkinson disease, and much more.� View the characteristic presentation of each disorder with a complete collection of professional-quality, narrated videos online. Better visualize every concept with new full-color illustrations throughout. Search the complete text online, follow links to PubMed abstracts, and download all of the illustrations, at www.expertconsult.com. Drs. Fahn, Jankovic and Hallett provide you with the guidance you need to diagnose and manage the full range of movement disorders.
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