International Neurology: A Clinical Approach

Neurological disease varies in its presentations and pathology throughout the world. In today’s interconnected world, neurologists need to be aware that patients can come from anywhere in the world with presentations and pathologies that may not be typical of their local context.

This unique textbook deals with the differences in etiology, genetics, age of onset and clinical presentations of neurological disease internationally. This is the first book to take a truly global approach to neurological illness.

Consisting of 22 sections and 173 chapters with contributions from experts in many countries, it serves as an invaluable guide for physicians to expand their knowledge of different neurological disorders around the world. More importantly it is a definitive source of practical information to aid diagnosis and treatment.Content:
Chapter 1 Stroke: An Overview (page 1): Christopher Li?Hsian Chen and Chung Y. Hsu
Chapter 2 Transient Ischemic Attacks (pages 2–5): Samir H. Shah and Bruce Ovbiagele
Chapter 3 Atherothrombotic Disease (pages 6–8): Nijasri C. Suwanwela
Chapter 4 Occlusive Disease of Small Penetrating Arteries (pages 9–11): Takeshi Iwanaga, Hock L. Teoh, Jorge A. Zavala and Geoffrey A. Donnan
Chapter 5 Binswanger's Disease (pages 12–13): Dean A. Le and Ferdinando S. Buonanno
Chapter 6 Brain Embolism (pages 14–17): Bernard P. L. Chan and Chung Y. Hsu
Chapter 7 Borderzone Cerebral Infarction (pages 18–19): Thomas W. Leung
Chapter 8 Dissection of the Cervicocerebral Arteries (pages 20–22): Nijasri C. Suwanwela and Chung Y. Hsu
Chapter 9 Coagulation Disorders in Stroke (pages 23–24): Kay Sin Tan
Chapter 10 Hemorrhagic Strokes (pages 25–32): Josef Schill and Thorsten Steiner
Chapter 11 Strokes in Children and Young Adults (pages 33–35): Alfred Lindner
Chapter 12 Other Cerebrovascular Syndromes (pages 36–38): David Blacker
Chapter 13 Diseases of the Cerebral Venous System (pages 39–41): Patrick Carney and Stephen M. Davis
Chapter 14 Spinal Cord Stroke (pages 42–44): Manu Mehdiratta and Louis R. Caplan
Chapter 15 Extracranial Granulomatous Arteritis (Giant Cell Arteritis) (pages 45–48): Sandeep Randhawa and Gregory P. Van Stavern
Chapter 17 Takayasu's Arteritis (pages 51–53): Yasuhisa Kitagawa
Chapter 19 Wegener's Granulomatosis (pages 57–58): Gerard Said
Chapter 16 Intracranial Granulomatous Arteritis (Primary Angiitis of the CNS)/Idiopathic CNS Vasculitis (pages 49–50): Donald Silberberg
Chapter 18 Polyarteritis Nodosa, Churg–Strauss Syndrome, Overlap and Related Syndromes (pages 54–56): Stanley van den Noort and Gaby T. Thai
Chapter 20 Cerebrovascular Disease Associated with Antiphospholipid Antibodies (pages 59–60): Megan Alcauskas and Steven R. Levine
Chapter 21 Thromboangiitis Obliterans – Buerger's Disease (pages 61–62): Kumar Rajamani
Chapter 22 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Sjogren's Syndrome (pages 63–69): Marc Gotkine and Oded Abramsky
Chapter 23 Systemic Sclerosis (pages 70–71): Ho Jin Kim and Min Su Park
Chapter 24 Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (pages 72–73): Ho Jin Kim and Min Su Park
Chapter 25 Behcet's Syndrome and the Nervous System (pages 74–78): Aksel Siva and Sabahattin Saip
Chapter 26 Sarcoidosis (pages 79–82): Barney J. Stern
Chapter 27 Inflammatory Spondyloarthropathies (pages 83–84): Asmahan Alshubaili
Chapter 28 Epilepsy: Overview (pages 85–89): Andres M. Kanner
Chapter 29 Cryptogenic and Symptomatic Generalized Epilepsies and Syndromes (pages 90–94): Marco T. Medina, Antonio V. Delgado?Escueta and Luis C. Rodriguez?Salinas
Chapter 30 Genetic (Primary) Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy (IGE) (pages 95–98): Afawi Zaid
Chapter 31 Localization?Related Epilepsies (pages 99–103): Hirokazu Oguni and Chrysostomos P. Panayiotopoulos
Chapter 32 Neurodiagnostic Tools for the Paroxysmal Disorders (pages 104–106): Barbara E. Swartz
Chapter 33 Antiepileptic Drugs (pages 107–111): Paul B. Pritchard Iii
Chapter 34 Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy (pages 112–115): Ivan Rektor and Barbara E. Swartz
Chapter 35 The Dementias: An Overview (pages 116–119): Howard H. Feldman and Najeeb Qadi
Chapter 36 Isolated Memory Disorders (pages 120–122): Elka Stefanova and Vladimir Kostic
Chapter 37 Mild Cognitive Impairment (pages 123–125): Elka Stefanova and Vladimir Kostic
Chapter 38 The Degenerative Dementias (pages 126–136): Irena Rektorova, Robert Rusina, Jakub Hort and Radoslav Matej
Chapter 39 Other Dementias (pages 137–143): John M. Ringman and Arousiak Varpetian
Chapter 40 Movement Disorders: An Overview (pages 144–145): Roongroj Bhidayasiri and Daniel D. Truong
Chapter 41 Tremor (pages 146–151): Jan Raethjen and Gunther Deuschl
Chapter 42 Parkinsonism (pages 152–158): Bradley J. Robottom, William J. Weiner and Lisa M. Shulman
Chapter 43 Parkinson's Disease (pages 159–165): Daniel D. Truong and Roongroj Bhidayasiri
Chapter 44 Dystonia (pages 166–172): Stanley Fahn
Chapter 45 Chorea and Related Disorders (pages 173–178): Roongroj Bhidayasiri and Daniel D. Truong
Chapter 46 Myoclonus (pages 179–183): John N. Caviness and Daniel D. Truong
Chapter 47 Tics and Tourette (pages 184–186): Valerie Suski and Mark Stacy
Chapter 48 Ataxia (pages 187–190): Sergei N. Illarioshkin
Chapter 49 Drug Induced Movement Disorders (pages 191–193): Rick Stell
Chapter 50 Gait Disorders (pages 194–196): Nir Giladi
Chapter 51 Psychogenic Movement Disorders (pages 197–198): Brandon Barton, Esther Cubo and Christopher G. Goetz
Chapter 52 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (pages 199–202): Bjorn Oskarsson, Yvonne D. Rollins and Steven P. Ringel
Chapter 53 Primary Lateral Sclerosis (pages 203–204): Yvonne D. Rollins, Bjorn Oskarsson and Steven P. Ringel
Chapter 54 Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (pages 205–207): Ildefonso Rodriguez?Leyva
Chapter 55 Spinal Muscular Atrophies (pages 208–211): Sabine Rudnik?Schoneborn and Klaus Zerres
Chapter 56 Post?Polio Syndrome (pages 212–214): Nils Erik Gilhus
Chapter 57 Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies (pages 215–218): Ignacio M. Carrillo?Nunez, Anneke J. van der Kooi and Marianne de Visser
Chapter 58 Dystrophinopathies (pages 219–222): S. M. Schade van Westrum and Marianne de Visser
Chapter 59 Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (pages 223–224): George W. Padberg
Chapter 60 Scapuloperoneal Syndrome (pages 225–226): Georges Serratrice
Chapter 61 Myotonic Dystrophy (pages 227–230): Slobodan Apostolski and Vidosava Rakocevic?Stojanovic
Chapter 62 Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy (pages 231–232): Luis A. Chui and Tahseen Mozaffar
Chapter 63 Emery–Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy (pages 233–234): Ronnie Karayan and Tahseen Mozaffar
Chapter 64 Distal Myopathies (pages 235–237): Nigel G. Laing and Phillipa J. Lamont
Chapter 65 Acute Bacterial Meningitis (pages 238–241): Sudesh Prabhakar
Chapter 66 Brain Abscess (pages 242–244): Gagandeep Singh
Chapter 67 Subdural Empyema (pages 245–247): Sandi Lam and Tien T. Nguyen
Chapter 68 Epidural Abscess (pages 248–249): Sandi Lam and Tien T. Nguyen
Chapter 69 Intracranial Septic Thrombophlebitis (pages 250–252): D. Nagaraja and D. K. Prashantha
Chapter 70 Encephalitis Due to Bacterial Infections (pages 253–257): Karen L. Roos and Jennifer Durphy
Chapter 71 Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (pages 258–260): Einar P. Wilder?Smith
Chapter 72 Mycobacterium Avium (page 261): Einar P. Wilder?Smith
Chapter 73 Leprosy (pages 262–265): Minh Le
Chapter 74 Neurosyphilis (pages 266–268): Jonathan Carr
Chapter 75 Lyme Disease (pages 269–273): Patricia K. Coyle
Chapter 76 Fungal Infections of the Central Nervous System (pages 274–277): Thomas C. Cesario
Chapter 77 Introduction to Protozoans of the Central Nervous System (page 278): Marylou V. Solbrig
Chapter 78 Amoebic Disease of the Central Nervous System (pages 279–281): Melanie Walker
Chapter 79 Toxoplasmosis of the Central Nervous System (pages 282–284): Marylou V. Solbrig
Chapter 80 Cerebral Malaria (pages 285–289): Polrat Wilairatana and Srivicha Krudsood
Chapter 81 Trypanosomiasis (pages 290–292): Francisco Javier Carod?Artal
Chapter 82 Rickettsial and Parasitic Infections (page 293): Oscar H. Del Brutto
Chapter 83 Cestodes (pages 294–296): Oscar H. Del Brutto
Chapter 84 Trematodes: Schistosomiasis (pages 297–299): Sureshbabu Sachin and Manjari Tripathi
Chapter 85 Nematodes (pages 300–302): Manjari Tripathi and Sureshbabu Sachin
Chapter 86 Rickettsial Disease (pages 303–307): Clarisse Rovery and Didier Raoult
Chapter 87 Acute, Recurrent, and Chronic Viral Meningitis (pages 308–313): Larry E. Davis
Chapter 88 The Syndrome of Acute Encephalitis (pages 314–328): Heng Thay Chong and Chong Tin Tan
Chapter 89 Post?Viral Cerebellitis (pages 329–330): Heng Thay Chong and Chong Tin Tan
Chapter 90 Subacute and Chronic Viral Infections (pages 331–335): Ellen Gelpi and Herbert Budka
Chapter 91 Prion Diseases (pages 336–339): Ellen Gelpi and Herbert Budka
Chapter 92 HIV and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: An Overview of Neurological Complications (pages 340–341): Bruce J. Brew
Chapter 93 Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Biology and General Overview of Seroconversion and Early Infection (pages 342–344): Alexandros C. Tselis
Chapter 94 HIV?Related CNS Disorders (pages 345–350): Girish Modi, Kapila Hari and Andre Mochan
Chapter 95 HIV Neuropathy (pages 351–353): Giorgia Melli and Ahmet Hoke
Chapter 96 Myopathies in HIV Infection (pages 354–355): Mirela E. Toma, Alejandra Gonzalez?Duarte and David M. Simpson
Chapter 97 HIV?Associated Cerebral Opportunistic Infections (pages 356–359): Bruce J. Brew
Chapter 98 HIV?Associated Lymphoma: Neurologic Complications (pages 360–361): Bruce J. Brew
Chapter 99 Peripheral Nervous System Complications of HTLV?1 Myelopathy: HAM/TSP and Related Syndromes (pages 362–365): Abelardo Araujo, Marco A. Lima and Marcus Tulius T. Silva
Chapter 100 Multiple Sclerosis (pages 366–374): Robert P. Lisak and Jun?Ichi Kira
Chapter 101 Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) or Devic's Disease (pages 375–377): William M. Carroll
Chapter 102 Isolated Inflammatory Demyelinating Syndromes (IIDS) (pages 378–380): Ernest W. Willoughby
Chapter 103 Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (pages 381–385): Brenda L. Banwell
Chapter 104 Osmotic Demyelination Syndromes (pages 386–388): Ovidiu Bajenaru
Chapter 105 Concentric Sclerosis (Balo's Disease) (pages 389–390): Takeshi Tabira
Chapter 106 Neurotoxicology (pages 391–400): Nai?Shin Chu and Chin?Chang Huang
Chapter 107 Vitamin Deficiency (pages 401–407): Jacques Serratrice
Chapter 108 Starvation, Strachan's Syndrome, and Postgastroplasty Polyneuropathy (pages 408–409): Le Quang Cuong
Chapter 109 Alcohol?Related Neurological Disorders (pages 410–415): Yuri Alekseenko
Chapter 110 Peripheral Neuropathies: Overview (pages 416–418): Friedhelm Sandbrink
Chapter 111 Hereditary Neuropathy (pages 419–424): Liying Cui and Mingsheng Liu
Chapter 112 Acquired Neuropathies (pages 425–431): Friedhelm Sandbrink
Chapter 113 Plexopathies and Mononeuropathies (pages 432–437): Friedhelm Sandbrink
Chapter 114 Myasthenia Gravis (pages 438–441): Richard A. Lewis
Chapter 115 Lambert–Eaton Syndrome (pages 442–444): Johan A. Aarli
Chapter 116 Neuromuscular Transmission Disorders Caused by Toxins and Drugs (pages 445–446): Zohar Argov
Chapter 117 Critical Illness Myopathy (pages 447–448): Muhammad Al?Lozi and Alan Pestronk
Chapter 118 Progressive Muscle Dystrophies (pages 449–453): Stephan Zierz
Chapter 119 Familial Periodic Paralyses (pages 454–456): Chokri Mhiri
Chapter 120 Congenital Disorders of the Muscle (pages 457–460): Young?Chul Choi
Chapter 121 Muscle Cramps (pages 461–464): Raymond L. Rosales
Chapter 122 Dermatomyositis (pages 465–468): Marinos C. Dalakas
Chapter 123 Polymyositis (pages 469–473): Marinos C. Dalakas
Chapter 124 Inclusion Body Myositis (pages 474–476): Frank L. Mastaglia and Merrilee Needham
Chapter 125 Myoglobinuria (pages 477–479): John Vissing
Chapter 126 Genetics in Neurology (pages 480–484): Karen P. Frei
Chapter 127 Neuro?Otology (pages 485–494): Kevin A. Kerber
Chapter 128 Clinical Approaches in Neuro?Ophthalmology (pages 495–505): Anuchit Poonyathalang
Chapter 129 High Grade Astrocytomas (pages 506–509): Olivier L. Chinot
Chapter 130 Low Grade Astrocytoma (pages 510–513): Martin J. van den Bent
Chapter 131 Low Grade and Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma (pages 514–518): Ayman I. Omar and Warren P. Mason
Chapter 132 Brain Stem Glioma (pages 519–521): Ira J. Dunkel and Mark M. Souweidane
Chapter 133 Intracranial Ependymoma (pages 522–524): Sajeel Chowdhary and Marc Chamberlain
Chapter 134 Nerve Sheath Tumors (pages 525–527): Nathan J. Ranalli and Eric L. Zager
Chapter 135 Meningiomas (pages 528–530): Laurie Rice and Jeffrey Raizer
Chapter 136 Medulloblastoma (pages 531–534): Regina I. Jakacki
Chapter 137 Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma (CNSL) (pages 535–538): Deborah T. Blumenthal
Chapter 138 Brain Metastases (pages 539–542): Silvia Hofer and Michael Brada
Chapter 139 Leptomeningeal Metastases (pages 543–545): Elizabeth R. Gerstner and Tracy T. Batchelor
Chapter 140 Spinal Epidural Metastases (pages 546–549): Lee I. Kubersky and David Schiff
Chapter 141 General Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disorders (pages 550–553): Myrna R. Rosenfeld and Josep O. Dalmau
Chapter 142 Insomnia (pages 554–556): Colin A. Espie and Delwyn J. Bartlett
Chapter 143 Narcolepsy (pages 557–560): Marcel Hungs and Emmanuel Mignot
Chapter 144 Idiopathic Hypersomnia (pages 561–562): Marcel Hungs and Jed Black
Chapter 145 Obstructive Sleep Apnea (pages 563–565): Christine Won, Jee Hyun Kim and Christian Guilleminault
Chapter 146 Restless Legs Syndrome (pages 566–568): Birgit Hogl, Birgit Frauscher and Claudio Sergio Podesta
Chapter 147 Circadian Sleep Disorders (pages 569–570): Sergio Tufik, Monica L. Andersen, Lia R. A. Bittencourt and T. De Mello
Chapter 148 Disorders of Arousal (pages 571–572): Li Ling Lim
Chapter 149 REM Behavior Disorder (RBD) (pages 573–574): Li Ling Lim
Chapter 150 Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dystonia (pages 575–576): Cynthia L. Comella
Chapter 151 Sleep Abnormalities in Neurological Disorders (pages 577–578): Margaret Park and Cynthia L. Comella
Chapter 152 Disc Disease (pages 579–586): David B. Vodusek and Simon Podnar
Chapter 153 Syringomyelia (pages 587–589): Alla Guekht
Chapter 154 Pediatric Neurotransmitter Diseases (pages 590–593): Stephen Deputy
Chapter 155 Neonatal Neurology (pages 594–595): Mary Payne and Ann Tilton
Chapter 156 Floppy Infant Syndrome (pages 596–599): Jong?Hee Chae
Chapter 157 Storage Disorders (pages 600–608): Jeffrey Ekstrand and Raman Sankar
Chapter 158 Disorders of Amino Acid, Organic Acid, and Ammonia Metabolism (pages 609–616): Stephen Cederbaum
Chapter 159 Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathies (pages 617–630): Stacey K. H. Tay and Salvatore DiMauro
Chapter 160 Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders (pages 631–634): Thomas Wieser and Thomas Deufel
Chapter 161 Disorders Resulting from Transporters (pages 635–637): David Gloss
Chapter 162 Lesch–Nyhan Disease (pages 638–639): Allison Conravey and Ann Tilton
Chapter 163 The Porphyrias (pages 640–643): Frank J. E. Vajda and Carlo Solinas
Chapter 164 Wilson's Disease (pages 644–647): Peter A. LeWitt and Anna Czlonkowska
Chapter 165 Traumatic Brain Injury (pages 648–651): Christopher C. Giza
Chapter 166 Spinal Injury (pages 652–654): Enver I. Bogdanov
Chapter 167 Whiplash Injury (pages 655–656): Anthony Ciabarra
Chapter 168 Decompression Sickness (pages 657–658): Leon D. Prockop
Chapter 169 Post?Traumatic Movement Disorders (pages 659–660): Louis C. S. Tan and Daniel D. Truong
Chapter 170 Pain (pages 661–668): Guillermo Garcia?Ramos, Bernardo Cacho Diaz and Bruno Estanol Vidal
Chapter 171 Headache (pages 669–674): Stephen D. Silberstein
Chapter 172 Facial and Neck Pain (pages 675–678): Kammant Phanthumchinda
Chapter 173 Fibromyalgia (pages 679–680): Saeed Bohlega