Handbook of Neurological Therapy

This is practical book on neurological therapy. It is aimed at giving concise and updated answers to busy practicing clinicians in the clinic, ward or emergency department. An evidence-based approach is used, but when there is no evidence or the data are inconclusive, an expert opinion is always being given in order to meet the expectations of the reader. All neurological conditions (common and less common) are discussed; each chapter has a similar format, and contains an initial brief introduction on the epidemiology and clinical features of each disease. The therapy is then discussed, including pharmacological and non-pharmacological, with wide use of Tables & Figures (flowcharts are also included in most of the chapters). Carlo Colosimo, MD, Universit` La Sapienza, Antonio Gil-Nagel, MD, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid Spain, Nils Erik Gilhus, MD, University of Bergen, Alan Rapoport, MD, UCLA Medical Center, and Olajide Williams, MD, MS, Columbia University, USA CONTENTS Section I - Headache and facial Pain Chapter 1: Primary headache Inna Keselman, Alan Rapoport Chapter 2: Secondary headache Inna Keselman, Alan Rapoport Chapter 3: Facial pain Inna Keselman, Alan Rapoport Chapter 4: Childhood headache Inna Keselman, Alan Rapoport Section II - Cerebrovascular Disorders Chapter 5: Transient Ischemic Attacks Comana Cioroiu, Olajide Williams Chapter 6: Acute Ischemic Stroke Joshua Z Willey Chapter 7: Intracerebral Hemorrhage Aaron Sylvan Lord, Olajide Williams Chapter 8: Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Sachin Agarwal, Neha Dangayach Chapter 9: Subdural and Epidural Hemorrhage Christopher P. Kellner, Brendan Scully, E. Sander Connolly, Jr 10. Cerebral Venous Thrombosis Marco A. Gonzalez Castellon Section III - Epilepsy and syncope Chapter 11: Seizures and Epilepsy in adults and children Rafael Toledano, Antonio Gil-Nagel Chapter 12 : Syncope Luisa Sambati and Pietro Cortelli Section IV - Sleep Disorders Chapter 13: Insomnia Juan A. Pareja and Teresa Montojo Chapter 14: Parasomnias Juan A. Pareja Chapter 15: Sleep-Related Movement Disorders Juan A. Pareja Chapter 16: Hypersomnia Juan A. Pareja Section V - Neuromuscular Diseases Chapter 17: Motor neuron disease Ole-Bjørn Tysnes Chapter 18: Acute and chronic Neuropathies Christian Vedeler Chapter 19: Neuromuscular junction disorders Nils Erik Gilhus Chapter 20: Myopathies Laurence Bindoff Section VI - Toxic and Metabolic Neurological Disorders Chapter 21: Toxic and iatrogenic neurological disorders Christina Ulane, Olajide Williams Chapter 22: Metabolic neurological disorders Christina Ulane, Olajide Williams Section VII - Infections of the Central Nervous System Chapter 23: Bacterial meningitis Miguel Valdes-Sueiras and Elyse J. Singer Chapter 24: Other meningitis Miguel Valdes-Sueiras and Elyse J. Singer Chapter 25: Infectious Encephalitis and Myelitis Miguel Valdes-Sueiras and Elyse J. Singer Section VIII - Multiple Sclerosis and related disorders Chapter 26: Multiple sclerosis Kjell-Morten Myhr Chapter 27: Neuromyelitis optica Kjell-Morten Myhr Section IX - Movement Disorders and Dementia Chapter 28: Parkinson's Disease Carlo Colosimo, Luca Marsili Chapter 29: Atypical and Secondary parkinsonism Luca Marsili, Carlo Colosimo Chapter 30: Hyperkinetic movement disorders (Carlo Colosimo, MC Martinez-Torrens, Luc Marsili) Chapter 31:Cerebellar Ataxia Luca Marsili, Carlo Colosimo Chapter 32: Dementia Alessandro Padovani and Barbara Borroni Section X - Central nervous system tumors Chapter 33: Low grade Gliomas Paola Gaviani, Andra Salmaggi, and Antonio Silvani Chapter 34: High grade Gliomas Andrea Salmaggi, Anna Fiumani, and Antonio Silvani Chapter 35: Gliomatosis cerebri Paola Gaviani, Andrea Salmaggi, and Antonio Silvani Chapter 36: Pituitary Adenomas Andrea Saladino Chapter 37: Germ Cell Tumors Antonio Silvani, Andrea Salmaggi, Paola Gaviani Chapter 38: Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma Antonio Silvani, Paola Gaviani, Andrea Salmaggi Chapter 39: Brain Tumors in Childhood Veronica Biassoni, Cecilia Casali, Elisabetta Schiavello, Francesco DiMeco, and Maura Massimino Chapter 40: Metastatic Brain disease Anna Fiumani and Andrea Salmaggi