Lyme Disease

Educated at MIT and Harvard and received his clinical training at the University of Chicago and Massachusetts General Hospital. Currently Professor of Neurology and Medicine at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he began his career on the neurology faculty of SUNY Stony Brook, just as Lyme disease was being characterized. The multidisciplinary collaborative group there was able to substantially improve the knowledge base regarding this infection. An author or contributor to approximately 150 articles and chapters, Dr. Halperin lectures widely. He serves on the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology, has been a long-standing examiner for the Neurology Board examination, and has been heavily involved in patient outcome improvement at Atlantic Health, the multihospital system in New Jersey where he now leads Neurosciences. Under his leadership, Overlook Hospital's Neuroscience program has rapidly become recognized as the state's best and busiest.

PART I: BIOLOGICAL SUBSTRATE 1: Ticks: The Vectors of Lyme Disease 2: Biology of the Lyme Disease Agents: A Selective Survey of Clinical and Epidemiologic Relevance 3: Borreliella: Interactions with the Host Immune System 4: Diagnostic Testing for Lyme Disease 5: Global Epidemiology of Borreliella burgdorferi Infections PART II: CLINICAL ASPECTS 6: Antibiotic Therapy for Infection Caused by Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato 7: Lyme Borreliosis: The European Perspective 8: Lyme Neuroborreliosis: A European Perspective 9: Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Lyme Neuroborreliosis – Not the Same: A Study in an Endemic Area of Norway 10: Erythema Migrans 11: Lyme Carditis 12: The Musculoskeletal Manifestations of Lyme Disease (Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi) 13: Nervous System Involvement 14: Lyme Disease in Children 15: The Psychology of ‘Post-Lyme Disease Syndrome’ and ‘Not Lyme’ 16: Chronic Lyme Disease 17: Lyme Disease: The Great Controversy