Therapy of Parkinson's Disease, Third Edition

Part 1 History of Parkinson's disease: the history of the medical therapy of Parkinson's disease. Part 2 Assessment, symptoms and sign, and basis of therapy: clinical rating scales and videotape analysis; quantitative techniques of assessing motor disability; therapies to extend duration of levodopa action; magnetic resonance imaging and PET investigations of Parkinson's disease. Part 3 Pharmacologic agents: anticholinergic drugs in the treatment of Parkinson's disease; amantadine in Parkinson's disease; biochemical basis for levodopa therapy; levodopa-based therapy; levodopa infusion therapy; long-acting levodopa preparations; intracerebroventricular infusion of dopaminergic drugs; dopamine agonists in Parkinson's disease; the influence of bromocriptine on levodopa; lisuride - a direct dopamine agonist in the treatment of Parkinson's disease; pergolide. Part 4 Surgical approaches: stereotactic thalamotomies; the effects of unilateral ventral-posterior medical pallidotoing in patients with Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's plus syndromes; chronic high frequency thalamic stimulation in Parkinson's disease; scientific basis for dopaminergic brain grafting; transplantation of adrenal medullary tissue to brain in Parkinson's disease; neurotransplantation. Part 5 Diet in therapy: dietary issues in the treatment of Parkinsonism; management of late Parkinson's disease with L-Dopa - role of dietary protein redistribution. Part 6 Other therapeutic approaches: nondopaminergic therapy in Parkinson's disease; treatment of autonomic nervous system disturbances in Parkinson's disease; management of behavioral symptoms in Parkinson's disease; treatment of depression in Parkinson's disease; management of psychosis in Parkinson's disease; electroconvulsive therapy in Parkinson's disease. (Part Contents).