Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders

Offering a state-of-the-art, authoritative summary of the most relevant scientific and clinical advances in the field, Principles and Practice of Movement Disorders provides the expert guidance you need to diagnose and manage the full range of these challenging conditions. Superb summary tables, a large video library, and a new, easy-to-navigate format help you find information quickly and apply it in your practice. Based on the authors’ popular Aspen Course of Movement Disorders in conjunction with the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, this 3rd Edition is an indispensable resource for movement disorder specialists, general neurologists, and neurology residents.

Table of Contents:

Section 1: Overview

1 Clinical Overview and Phenomenology of Movement Disorders

2 Motor Control: Physiology of Voluntary and Involuntary Movements

3 Functional Neuroanatomy of the Basal Ganglia

Section 2: Hypokinetic disorders

4 Parkinsonism: Clinical Features and Diagnosis

5 Etiology and Pathogenesis of Parkinson Disease

6 Medical Treatment of the Motor Features of Parkinson Disease

7 Surgical Treatment of Parkinson Disease and Other Movement Disorders

8 Non-Motor Problems in Parkinson Disease

9 Atypical Parkinsonism, Parkinsonism-Plus Syndromes and Secondary Parkinsonian Disorders

10 Tremors

Section 3: Hyperkinetic disorders

11 Dystonia: Phenomenology, classification, etiology, pathology, biochemistry, and genetics

12 Treatment of Dystonia

13 Huntington Disease

14 Chorea, Ballism, and Athetosis

15 Tics and Tourette Syndrome

16 Stereotypies

17 The Tardive Syndromes: Phenomenology, Concepts on Pathophysiology and Treatment, and Other Neuroleptic-Induced Syndromes

18 Myoclonus: Phenomenology, Etiology, Physiology, and Treatment

19 Gait Disorders: Pathophysiology and Clinical Syndromes

20 Ataxia: Pathophysiology and Clinical Syndromes

21 Stiffness Syndromes

22 Wilson Disease

23 Autoimmune Movement Disorders

24 Paroxysmal Dyskinesias

25 Restless Legs Syndrome

26 Peripheral Movement Disorders

27 Functional (Psychogenic) Movement Disorders: Phenomenology, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Joseph Jankovic, MD, Professor Neurology, Distinguished Chair in Movement Disorders, Director, Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Mark Hallett, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA; Michael S Okun, Adelaide Lackner Associate Professor of Medicine Co-Director Movement Disorders Center; Cynthia L. Comella, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush Medical College of Rush University, Chicago, IL and Stanley Fahn, MD, H. Houston Merritt Professor of Neurology and Director Emeritus, Center for Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, The Neurological Institute, New York, NY