Author | Godwin-Austen, Richard. author |
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Title | The Neurology of the Elderly [electronic resource] / by Richard Godwin-Austen, John Bendall |
Imprint | London : Springer London, 1990 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1758-2 |
Descript | XII, 148 p. 1 illus. online resource |
1 The Neurological Examination of The Elderly Patient -- History-taking -- The General Examination -- Temperature -- Blood Pressure -- Aids, Appliances and Chairs -- The Neurological Examination -- 2 The Investigation of the Elderly Patient -- Lumbar Puncture -- Computed Tomography (CT) Scan -- Electroencephalography (EEG) -- Electromyography (EMG) and Nerve Conduction Velocity (NCV) -- Evoked Potential Recording -- Myelography -- Angiography -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) -- 3 โConfusionโ and Dementia -- History -- Examination -- Acute and Subacute Organic Brain Syndromes -- Dementia: Chronic Organic Brain Syndromes -- Parkinsonโs Disease and Dementia -- Dementia of Frontal Type -- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus -- Pseudodementia -- 4 Disturbances of Gait and Balance, and Falls -- Maintenance of Posture and the Effects of Age and Age-related Disease -- Neuropathies -- Subacute Combined Degeneration of the Cord -- Gait Dyspraxia -- 5 Headache and Facial Neuralgia -- Headache -- Facial Neuralgia -- 6 Some Visual Problems -- Episodic Visual Disturbance -- Persistent and Progressive Visual Disturbance -- Double Vision -- Visual Hallucinations and Disorders of Visual Perception -- 7 Incontinence -- Urinary Incontinence -- Faecal Incontinence -- Conclusion -- 8 Parkinsonism and Abnormal Movement Disorders -- The Presenting Symptoms and Signs of Parkinsonism -- The Examination of the Patient with Parkinsonism -- Other Signs in Parkinsonism -- Assessment -- Course -- Parkinsonโs Disease and Senile Parkinsonism -- Abnormal Movement Disorders: Dystonias -- 9 Attacks of Loss of Consciousness and Disturbance of Memory -- Attacks of Loss of Consciousness -- Amnesic States -- 10 Loss of Use in the Upper Limb -- The History -- The Examination -- Abnormal Involuntary Movements -- 11 Neurological Presentations of General Medical Disorders -- Diabetesm Mellitus -- Hypoglycaemia -- Thyroid Disease -- Disorders of Water and Mineral Metabolism -- Disorders of Calcium Metabolism -- Alcohol and Alcoholism -- Nutritional and other Vitamin Deficiencies -- Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Malignant Disease -- Herpes Zoster -- Myeloma and Dysproteinaemias -- Drugs -- References and Further Reading