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Written by the dystonia team at the University of Florida Movement Disorders Center, this book is designed as a practical and complete guide to the integrated management of the dystonia patient. It provides a current understanding of this common but often poorly appreciated condition and a framework for delivering comprehensive multi and intra-disciplinary care. Individual chapters review medical and surgical strategies, botulinum toxin therapy, and programming issues for deep brain stimulators.

Una de las complicaciones médicas más frecuentes de la enfermedad de la neurona motora superior es la espasticidad, habitual en los pacientes con lesión de la médula espinal, en la esclerosis múltiple y en los pacientes con secuelas de ictus, parálisis cerebral y traumatismos cráneo-encefálicos. Si bien es considerada una alteración de la función motora, algunos pacientes presentan además dolor crónico incapacitante, contracturas o espasmos, que pueden interferir con el sueño o producir alteraciones psicológicas.

Whatever the practice setting—acute care, rehabilitation, outpatient, extended care, or in a school—turn to this handy pocket guide to the neurological examination. Small in size, but not in content, it covers all of the common neuromuscular conditions, disorders, and diseases you might encountered in patients throughout their lifespans. A spiral binding, thumb tabs and nearly 240 illustrations insure you can find just what you’re looking for. Waterproof, reusable pages let you record clinical data and then wipe the pages clean with alcohol.

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Neuromusculoskeletal Clinical Tests: a Clinician’s Guide is an essential tool for both students and clinicians working in the orthopaedic/musculoskeletal field. Recalling, applying and interpreting correctly the vast range of clinical tests is a difficult task for even the most experienced clinician. This exceptionally practical book provides a suitable selection of clinical tests, which can be used in either the academic or clinical setting.

The management of patients with head injury requires a pragmatic, multi-professional approach, as exemplified in this book. The content includes chapters on epidemiology, experimental models, pathology, clinical examination, neuroimaging and trauma scoring systems. A large section of the text then deals with the management of the head-injured patient along the whole patient pathway, addressing issues such as emergency department care, transfer of the patient, intensive care and surgical aspects.

"The Encyclopedia of the Brain and Brain Disorders, Third Edition" is a significant update to the original that now also includes a substantial amount of new material on memory, updated from "The Encyclopedia of Memory and Memory Disorders". More than 800 entries cover all aspects of the brain, from anatomy, function, and development to diseases and disorders.

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GENERALIDADES, VALORACIÓN Y TRATAMIENTO. Aspectos generales de la esclerosis múltiple I. Aspectos generales de la esclerosis múltiple II. Escalas de valoración. Tratamiento integral de la EM. SINTOMATOLOGÍA NEUROLÓGICA. Fatiga. Síndrome piramidal. Síndrome cerebeloso. Alteraciones troncoencefálicas. Alteraciones de la sensibilidad. Marcha. SINTOMATOLOGÍA. Alteraciones respiratorias. Alteraciones urinarias e intestinales. Alteraciones sexuales. Otros síntomas de la EM. Niveles de actuación.

Exercise and Cognitive Function focuses on the relationship between physical exercise and cognition, a very timely and important topic with major theoretical and practical implications for a number of areas including ageing, neurorehabilitation, depression and dementia. It brings together a wide range of analytical approaches and experimental results to provide a very useful overview and synthesis of this growing field of study.

Written by editors with considerable personal experience in dementia care, the Second Edition of Management of Dementia combines a balanced review of the latest knowledge and research in this area with practical guidance.
Concise and easy-to-read, the completely revised Management of Dementia provides clinicians with full knowledge of the evolution of modern dementia care as well as the basis for understanding new developments as they occur.

Key features of the Second Edition include:

Puntos claves

Tercera edición de este conocido atlas, que ofrece un acercamiento sistemático a la anatomía del cerebro, médula espinal y el tronco del encéfalo.
Presenta diferentes versiones de las mismas fotografías con estructuras importantes destacadas y etiquetadas que permiten ver una sección del mismo modo que en la realidad.
Proporciona un glosario ilustrado que contiene 152 imágenes en color e incluye un CD
ROM de todas las imágenes del libro que pueden ser utilizadas en presentaciones de PowerPoint.
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