Neurodegenerative diseases / Donald B. Calne.
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Philadelphia :
W.B. Saunders Co.,
©1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Basic sciences
- Structures of neurons in the aging nervous system
- Vulnerability of specific neurons to aging
- Molecular biology of aging in the nervous system: a synopsis of the levels of mechanisms
- Lewy bodies
- Neurofibrillary tangles
- Beta-protein fibrillogenesis and neuritic plaques
- Neurotransmitters in neurodegeneration
- Neurotransmitter receptors in neurodegeneration
- Tissue culture models of neurodegeneration
- Free radicals, oxidative stress and neurodegeneration
- Glutamate excitotoxicity as a possible pathogenetic mechanism in chronic neurodegeneration
- Growth factors and neurodegeneration
- Mitochondrial disturbances in neurodegeneration
- Susceptibility to neurotoxins
- Organic neurotoxicants
- Inorganic neurotoxins in dementia caused by neurodegeneration
- Inorganic neurotoxins in neurodegenerative disorders without primary dementia
- Neurodegeneration and the immune system. (cont) Infectious and noninfectious amyloidoses of the brain: systemic amyloidoses as predictive models in transmissible and nontransmissible amloidotic neurodegeneration of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and aging brain and Alzheimer's disease
- Bacteria and neurodegeneration
- Molecular genetic approaches to neurodegenerative disease
- Compensatory mechanisms in central neurodegenerative disease
- Animal models of neurodegenerative disease
- Clinical sciences
- Normal aging of the nervous system
- Epidemiological overview of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and dementia of the Alzheimer type
- Positron emission tomography
- Magnetic resonance imaging in neurodegenerative diseases
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Pathogenic mechanisms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other motor neuron disorders
- Clinical electrophysiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Natural history nd clinical features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and related motor neuron diseases
- Treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. (cont) Parkinson's disease
- Pathology of Parkinson's disease
- Clinical features and natural history of Parkinson's disease (special consideration of aging)
- Treatment of Parkinson's disease
- Dementia of Alzheimer's type
- Pathology of Alzheimer's disease
- Cognitive changes in dementia of the Alzheimer type
- Clinical features and natural history of Alzheimer's disease
- Rational therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer's disease
- Other eurodegenerative disorders
- Wilson's disease (progressive hepatolenticular degeneration)
- Huntington's disease
- Idiopathic torsion dystonia
- Essential tremor
- Shy-drager syndrome (and multiple system atrophy)
- Progressive supranuclear palsy
- Cerebellar degenerations
- Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome: an iron-storage disease
- Sudanophilic (orthochromatic) leukodystrophies
- Transmissible human spongiform encephalopathy (infectious cerebral myloidosis): Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome and Kuru
- Cortical-basal ganglionic degeneration
- Guam neurodegeneration
- Rare neurodegenerative disorders.