| Series |
Contemporary neurology series ; 96
Contemporary neurology series ; 96. ^A2349
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| Contents |
Definition, History, Nosology, and Classification -- Epidemiology -- Pathology -- Pathophysiology I : Basal Ganglia Architecture and The Standard Model -- : Pathophysiology II : Neurotransmitter System Dysfunctions -- Genetics of Parkinson Disease -- Pathogenesis -- Prodromal Parkinson Disease -- Clinical Features I : Initial Evaluation -- Clinical Features II : Non-Motor Features -- Clinical Features III : Natural History -- Pharmacology I : L-Dopa Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics -- Pharmacology II : Treating Parkinson Disease -- Surgery |
| Abstract |
"Description and discussion of the many aspects of Parkinson disease (PD) is dogged by the fact that PD is an ambiguous concept. What we call PD is an etiologically and clinically heterogeneous meta-syndrome overlapping a number of other disorders. Definitions, diagnostic criteria, and classification schema provide essential common vocabularies for communication among clinicians and researchers. Definitions, diagnostic criteria, and classification schemes for PD, however, are constructs imposed on variable and imperfectly understood disease biology. Difficulties with formulation of PD definitions, diagnostic criteria, and classification schemes include historical and contemporary use of competing definitions of PD, disease heterogeneity, the existence of disorders with overlapping clinical and pathological features, and ambiguous use of the terms disease and syndrome. For the purposes of exposition and discussion in this book, an inclusive, perhaps vague, definition of PD is employed:"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2022). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Albin, Roger L. Parkinson disease. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023 9780190843014 |
| LCCN | 2022006296 |
| ISBN | 9780190843045 electronic book |
| ISBN | 0190843047 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9780190843038 electronic book |
| ISBN | 0190843039 electronic book |
| ISBN | 0190843020 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9780190843021 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | hardcover |
