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Disorders of movement : a guide to diagnosis and treatment /

"This concise but comprehensive book will help interested readers in the health care professions to navigate their way through the jungle of movement disorders, including the potentially complex differential diagnosis and management. The different disorders are discussed in individual sections...

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Main Authors: Martino, Davide
Group Author: Espay, Alberto J; Fasano, Alfonso; Morgante, Francesca
Published: Springer-Verlag,
Publisher Address: Heidelberg :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Movement disorders > Diagnosis
Movement disorders > Treatment
Summary: "This concise but comprehensive book will help interested readers in the health care professions to navigate their way through the jungle of movement disorders, including the potentially complex differential diagnosis and management. The different disorders are discussed in individual sections that explain how to examine the patient and recognize the disorder from its basic phenomenology, how to confirm a diagnosis, how to distinguish a particular disorder from related conditions, and how to treat each disorder effectively. The book makes liberal use of diagrams, algorithms, tables, summary
Carrier Form: xvii, 448 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9783662484661
3662484668
Index Number: RC376
CLC: R745.1
Call Number: R745.1/M386
Contents: Part 1: Poverty and slowness of voluntary movement: Bradykinesia, hypokinesia and akinesia -- Weakness -- Apathy, catatonia and mutism -- Obsessional slowness -- Part 2: Abnormalities of muscle tone: Spasticity -- Rigidity -- Paratonia -- Stiffness -- Atonia, hypotonia and negative myoclonus -- Part 3: Unvoluntary muscle activity: Tics -- Stereotypies and mannerisms -- Akathisia/restlessness -- Part 4: Lack of organization or coordination of voluntary muscle activity -- Apraxia -- Limb ataxia -- Part 5: Rhythmical involuntary movements: Tremor -- Tremor-like conditions: rhythmic myoclonus, m

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