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Movement Disorders in Psychiatry examines the complex interface between movement disorders and psychiatry, addressing both specific movement disorders in psychiatry and behavioral syndromes associated with diseases categorized as movement disorders. This volume provides an overview of clinical definitions and pathophysiology of movement disorders and reviews specific movement disorders associated with drugs of abuse and psychotropic medications, including tardive dyskinesia, akathisia, and neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Further chapters discuss movement disorders seen in primary psychiatric disorders, such as autism and schizophrenia, as well as diseases with concurrent movement disorder and behavioral symptoms, such as Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia, Tourette's syndrome, and autoimmune conditions. Movement Disorders in Psychiatry offers an in-depth perspective on movement disorders with treatment and practical management strategies for related challenges in clinical practice.
In this issue of Neurologic Clinics, guest editors Drs. Doris Kung and Everton A. Edmondson bring their considerable expertise to Outpatient Neurology. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as neck pain; how to read neurophysiology reports for the non-neurophysiologist; trigeminal neuralgia; epilepsy: choosing the best AED for your patient; insomnia: differential diagnosis and treatment options; dementia: management of psychiatric symptoms; and more. - Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including back pain; MS/CNS demyelinating disorders: diagnosis, initial treatment, and prognosis; chronic migraine; post-concussion syndrome; diabetic neuropathies: mononeuritis multiplex, plexopathy, and distal symmetric polyneuropathy; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews on outpatient neurology, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal, inherited, neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by chorea, motor instabilities, psychiatric manifestations and cognitive decline. Early genetic testing provides an opportunity for clinical interventions aimed at delaying onset and/or slowing progression of disease; however, current treatments for HD are limited, with only two FDA-approved drugs available to manage chorea. Encouragingly, however, several disease-modifying treatment approaches are in the therapeutic pipeline, with more than 200 clinical studies, and many more preclinical studies, in the works. Robust and reliable biomarkers are needed to predict disease onset, monitor disease progre...
The innovative case-based way to learn neurology – completely revised for today’s shelf exam Medical students need exposure to cases to pass the USMLE® and shelf exams, and this is exactly what Case Files: Neurology, Third Edition offers. Written by experienced educators, it teaches students how to think through diagnosis and management when confronting neurological clinical problems. Sixty high-yield clinical cases focus on the core competencies for the neurology clerkship. Each case includes extended discussion, definition of key terms, clinical pearls, and USMLE-style review questions. This interactive learning system helps students learn instead of memorize. The Third Edition has been completely revised with new questions, enhanced discussions, and better alignment with the challenging shelf exam to give students an unmatched review and learning tool. • Clinical pearls highlight key points • Reflects the most recent clerkship guidelines and core curriculum • Helps students learn in the context of real patients
A Doody's Core Title for 2023! Real-life cases sharpen your critical thinking skills for your clerkship and the shelf exam Case Files®: Neurology presents 50+ real-life cases that illustrate essential concepts in neurology. Each case includes a complete discussion, clinical pearls, references, high-yield presentation of key diagnostic and treatment information, USMLE-style review questions. With this system, students learn in the context of real patients, rather than merely memorize facts. This fourth edition has been thoroughly updated with the most current medical information and therapy and includes new cases on acquired ataxias, status epilepticus, optic neuritis, radiculopathy, and sleep disorders. Learn from 50+ high-yield cases, each with board-style questions Master key concepts with clinical pearls questions Polish your approach to clinical problem solving and patient care Maximize your shelf exam score with this proven learning system NEW cases on acquired ataxias, status epilepticus, optic neuritis, radiculopathy, and sleep disorders
The brand new romcom from a New York Times bestseller, perfect for fans of Emily Henry's BOOK LOVERS, THE SPANISH LOVE DECEPTION and THE UNHONEYMOONERS. Love isn't blind, it's just little blurry... Sadie Montgomery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. Only it happens to coincide with a minor surgery she needs to have... Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see everything around her, but she can no longer see faces. She doesn't want anyone to know about her face blindness. Not Dr. Addison, the vet...
Sadie Montgomery non può credere ai suoi occhi, è finalmente riuscita a raggiungere il traguardo più importante della sua vita: arrivare finalista al concorso della North American Portrait Society, il premio più ambito da ogni artista del Paese. Ma si sa, il destino ha spesso in serbo sorprese e imprevisti, ed ecco che i festeggiamenti prendono una piega decisamente inaspettata: Sadie si ritrova in un letto d’ospedale, con una diagnosi di cecità facciale, una sindrome “probabilmente temporanea”, o almeno così le spiegano i medici, che non le permette di riconoscere i volti. Non ha perso del tutto la vista, ma adesso il suo mondo è decisamente sfocato. Cupido invece, al contrario...
With no biological boundaries between neurodegenerative diseases as defined today, Brain Fables offers a blueprint for precision medicine.
Evidence-based practice has become the benchmark for quality in healthcare and builds on rules of evidence that have been developed in psychology and other health-care disciplines over many decades. This volume aims to provide clinical neuropsychologists with a practical and approachable reference for skills in evidence-based practice to improve the scientific status of patient care. The core skills involve techniques in critical appraisal of published diagnostic-validity or treatment studies. Critical appraisal skills assist any clinician to evaluate the scientific status of any published study, to identify the patient-relevance of studies with good scientific status, and to calculate indiv...