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Hardcover,
160 pages
261
x 194 mm page size
100
colour and b/w illustrations
23 tables
ISBN: 978-1-84076-101-6
Price £40.00
Publication: November 2008
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Donald
Grosset
Department of Neurology, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK
Hubert Fernandez
Movement disorders Center, Department of Neurology, University of
Florida, Gainesville, USA.
Michael Okun
McKnight Brain Institute, Department of Neurology, University of Florida,
Gainesville, USA.
The second title in the new series ‘Clinician’s Desk Reference’, designed
as concise up-to-date volumes on key conditions for physicians in
the hospital setting and in primary care, and for many professionals
allied to medicine.
Coverage ranges from incidence, diagnosis, investigation, drug treatments,
non-motor features of Parkinson’s Disease, assessment scales and surgical
intervention, to the role of nurses, physio– and occupational therapists,
speech/language pathologists, dieticians, and to the use of complementary
medicine.
The book is illustrated by photos/imaging and by charts and tables.
Contents: 1. Parkinson’s disease facts and figures, 2. Clinical
diagnosis of Parkinsonism and tremor, 3. Diagnostic testing and neuroimaging,
4. Drug treatment, 5. Non-Motor features of Parkinson’s Disease, 6.
Motor and non-motor assessment scales in Parkinson’s disease, 7. Surgical
therapy for Parkinson’s Disease, 8. The role of the nurse specialist
in the management of Parkinson’s disease, 9. The role of the physiotherapist
and occupational therapist, 10. The role of the speech language pathologist,
11. The role of the dietician, 12. Complementary medicine and PD.
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