Neurological Therapeutics: Principles and Practice, Second Edition is a fully-updated three-volume text, to be used as important reference for treatment decisions in offices of neurological practice, clinics and hospitals.

Providing a reference that is both authoritative and accessible for daily use, key features of this evidence-based, highly acclaimed work include:

• more than 275 major topics covering the vast patient mix primarily treated by adult and pediatric neurologists
• the most current definitive medical citations
• section editors who are all internationally recognized leaders in their fields
• new chapters addressing the important issues of stem cell therapy, pharmacogenomics, palliative care, the management of the organ donor, metabolic myelopathy, superficial siderosis and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• focus on the issues underlying treatment decisions not only for the most readily treated disorders but also for conditions with few existing, definitive therapeutic options
• over 600 comprehensive summary tables and informative figures, with the most recent supporting recommendations to guide treatment decisions for effective and efficient patient management in the busy clinic setting

Contents

Principles of Therapeutics

1. Basic Pharmaceutical Principles and the Blood-Brain Barrier
2. Molecular Therapies for the Nervous System and Muscle
3. Clinical Trial Methodology, FDA Terminology and Procedures
4. Placebo Analgesia
5. Evidence-Based Medicine
6. Ethical Issues in Neurological Treatment and Clinical Trials
7. Domestic Violence in Neurological Practice
8. Palliative Care and Hospice
9. Stem Cells

Pain: Headache, Spine, and Limb Pain

10. Principles of Pain Management
11. Migraine
12. Cluster Headaches
13. Tension-Type Headache
14. Chronic Daily Headache
15. Post-Traumatic Headache
16. Indomethacin-Responsive Headache Syndromes
17. Giant Cell Arteritis
18. Headache "Syndromes" in Children and Adolescents
19. Diagnosis and Treatment of Common Orofacial Pain Conditions
20. Radicular Limb Pain
21. Back Pain
22. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Cuasalgia, Shoulder-Hand Syndrome)
23. The Treatment of Central Pain
24. Peripheral (Neuropathic) Pain Disorders
25. Cancer Pain
26. Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Syndrome
27. Pain Disorder

Seizure Disorders

28. Classification and Epidemiology of Seizure Disorders: Therapeutic Implications and Importance
29. Pathophysiology of the Epilepsies
30. Principles in Epilepsy: Differential Diagnosis and Pharmacotherapy
31. Antiseizure Drugs
32. Surgery and Non-Pharmacological Therapies for Epilepsy
33. Status Epilepticus
34. The Treatment of Epilepsy in Children and Infants
35. Seizures and Epilepsy in Women
36. Imitators of Epilepsy
37. Legal and Regulatory Issues for People with Epilepsy

Cerebrovascular Disease

38. Principles of Atherosclerosis and Atherogenesis
39. Stroke Prevention
40. Anticoagulant Therapy and Antiplatelet Drugs
41. Thrombolytic Therapy for Stroke. Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis
42. Transient Ischemic Attacks
43. Management of Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke
44. Cardioembolic Stroke
45. Cerebral Complications after Cardiac Surgery and Cardiac Arrest
46. Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
47. Treatment of Intracerebral Hemorrhage
48. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Due to Cerebral Aneurysms
49. Cerebral Aneurysms and Vascular Malformations
50. Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms
51. Cervicocephalic Arterial Dissections
52. Fibromuscular Dysplasia
53. Venous Disorders
54. Spinal Cord Vascular Syndromes
55. Disorders of Coagulation
56. Antiphospholipid Antibodies and Variants
57. Hypertensive Encephalopathy
58. Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcoritical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL)
59. Moyamoya Disease
60. Stroke in Children
61. Stroke in Pregnancy
62. Superficial Siderosis

Neuro-Oncology

63. A Perspective on Neuro-oncology
64. Chemotherapy and Antineoplastic Agents
65. Radiotherapy for CNS Neoplasms: Principles, Technologies and Indications
66. Surgically Curable Brain Tumors of Adults
67. Diagnosis and Treatment of Pituitary Tumors
68. Diffuse Cerebral Gliomas in Adults
69. Malignant Brain Tumors of Childhood
70. Germ Cell Tumors and Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
71. Brain Metastases

Index

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