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Therapy of Parkinson's Disease, Third Edition
Marcel Dekker Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8247-9226-8 (ISBN)
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This work offers a comprehensive and fully updated overview of supportive patient management strategies, highlighting therapeutic approaches other that dopaminergic agents and conventional antiparkinsonian drugs. This second edition: reviews the neuroprotective effects of selegiline on Parkinson's disease; investigates ways of enhancing the effectiveness of levodopa-based therapy; presents methods of speech therapy with well-documented short- and long-term efficacy; and more.
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).
Reihe/Serie | Neurological Disease and Therapy |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie |
ISBN-10 | 0-8247-9226-2 / 0824792262 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8247-9226-8 / 9780824792268 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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