Neurology: Proceedings of the XIIIth World Congress of Neurology Hamburg, September 1–6, 1985

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
On the Dynamics Between Growth and Decline in the Aging of Intelligence and Memory....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Historical Overview of the Dementias....Pages 21-25
The Descriptive Epidemiology of the Dementias....Pages 26-33
Clinical Presentation of the Dementias....Pages 34-42
The Evolution of the Diagnosis of Dementia: Past, Present, and Future....Pages 43-49
Brain Imaging in the Assessment of the Dementias....Pages 50-60
Neuropsychological Approach to Dementia....Pages 61-69
Clinical Management of the American Patient with Dementia....Pages 70-77
Clinical Management in Europe of Patients with Dementia....Pages 78-84
Analytic Epidemiology and Risk Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 85-91
Classical and Modern Neuropathological Approaches to Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 92-102
Structural Proteins in Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 103-112
Energy Metabolism and Neurotransmitters in Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 113-118
Differential Cell Loss in (Peptide) Neurons in the Anterior Hypothalamus with Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease: Lack of Changes in Cell Density....Pages 119-125
The Dementias: A View to the Future....Pages 126-130
The Dementias: A View to the Future....Pages 131-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
The Impact of Dr. Geschwind’s Work on Neuropsychology....Pages 141-143
Anatomical Basis of Spatial Attention....Pages 144-150
The Contribution of Electrophysiology to the Study of Attention....Pages 151-158
Representational Impairment as a Factor in Neglect....Pages 159-163
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms of Visual Perception....Pages 165-170
Visual Agnosia for Objects....Pages 171-178
Disorders of Face Recognition....Pages 179-187
Recovery of Visual Field in Patients with Postgeniculate Damage....Pages 188-194
Is Vascular Thalamic Amnesia a Disconnection Syndrome?....Pages 195-203
What Amnesics Can and Can Not Do....Pages 204-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Neuroepidemiology as the Basis of Scientific Clinical Neurology....Pages 215-216
Epidemiology of Cerebrovascular Disease: International Patterns....Pages 217-222
Cerebrovascular Risk Factors....Pages 223-228
Epidemiology of Epilepsy....Pages 229-239
Epidemiology of Head Injury....Pages 240-243
Environmental vs. Genetic Factors in Ischemic Cerebrovascular Disease....Pages 244-245
Case-Control Study of Focal Cerebral Ischemia in Young Adults....Pages 246-248
Guillain-Barré Syndrome Following (A/New Jersey/76) Influenza (Swine Flu) Vaccine: Epidemic or Artifact?....Pages 249-254
Epidemiology of Head Injury: Future Perspective....Pages 255-256
Epidemiology of Peripheral Neuropathies....Pages 257-273
Epidemiology of Parkinson’s Disease....Pages 274-281
Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis....Pages 282-287
Overview of Motor Neuron Disease....Pages 288-292
Epidemiology of Peripheral Neuropathies....Pages 293-295
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Epidemiology of Parkinson’s Disease — Relevance of the Risk Factors....Pages 296-299
Discussion on Epidemiology of Motor Neurone Disease....Pages 300-303
Clinical Trials Relating to Epilepsy....Pages 305-312
Clinical Trials Relating to Head Injury....Pages 313-321
Clinical Trials Relating to Peripheral Neuropathy....Pages 322-329
The European Stroke Prevention Study....Pages 330-331
Clinical Trials Relating to Epilepsy....Pages 332-333
Controlled Clinical Trials of Head Injury....Pages 334-336
Discussion of Clinical Trials Relating to Peripheral Neuropathies....Pages 337-339
Parkinson’s Disease: Clinical Trials....Pages 340-348
Clinical Trials Relating to Multiple Sclerosis....Pages 349-357
The Clinical Relevance of Neuroepidemiology....Pages 358-361
Clinical Trials in Parkinson’s Disease....Pages 362-365
Discussion on Kurtzke’s: Clinical Trials in Multiple Sclerosis....Pages 366-367
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Neuroimaging: Preface....Pages 371-373
Impact of Computerized Tomography in Neurology....Pages 374-382
Transition from Computer Tomography to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Scanning....Pages 383-388
Correlative Neuropathology in Neuroimaging....Pages 389-403
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Central Nervous System....Pages 404-412
Positron Emission Tomography and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging: New Perspectives in Neuroimaging....Pages 413-421
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Positron Emission Tomography with Oxygen-15 Radiopharmaceuticals....Pages 422-428
PET Studies of Local Brain Metabolism During Sensory and Motor Tasks: Strategies, Results and Applications in Neurologic and Psychiatric Diseases....Pages 429-440
Functional and Morphological Evaluation of the Cerebral Circulation by Ultrasound....Pages 441-452
Application of Digital Subtraction Angiography in Neurological Disorders....Pages 453-462
Neuroimaging Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Computerized Tomography in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis, Idiopathic Optic Neuritis, and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus....Pages 463-468
CT and MRI Diagnoses of Intracranial Tumours Compared with the Results of Stereotactic Biopsy....Pages 469-476
Autoradiographic Distributions of Neurotransmitter Receptors in the Brain of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease and MPTP-induced Monkey Parkinsonism....Pages 477-486
Economics of Modern Brain Imaging Techniques....Pages 487-493
Back Matter....Pages 495-497