Cardiac Disorders and the Nervous System Neurological complications are an important cause of morbidity in patients with cardiac disease. Cardiogenic emboli may result from cardiac disease or its treatment, and cardiac dysfunction can cause global cerebral hypoperfusion, which—depending on its…
Introduction Neuropalliative care represents both a growing subspecialty among neurologists as well as a set of palliative care skills that are relevant to all clinicians caring for patients with serious, chronic, advanced, or terminal neurological diseases ( ). Patients with…
Youth with chronic neurological disorders eventually need to move to adult health care. Transition is a process beginning in early adolescence to help these youth to be successful in managing their disorder in adulthood. Transfer is the process of passing…
Goals and Structure of Rehabilitation Rehabilitation training focuses on reducing physical and cognitive impairments and their related disabilities and limitations on activity in an effort to increase functional independence and health-related quality of life. Training of movements and skills involves…
Neuroendovascular therapies consist of minimally invasive, catheter-based interventions for disorders affecting blood vessels (arteries and veins) of the brain and spine that are performed from within the vessel. For the past decade, the field of neuroendovascular therapies has been characterized…
Neurocritical care is a discipline devoted to the application of critical care principles to seriously ill patients with acute neurological or neurosurgical conditions and has become one of the most rapidly growing subspecialties of neurology in recent years. Neurological-neurosurgical (or…
Definition and Challenge Pain is the most common neurological complaint. Chronic pain constitutes a major public health burden. Over 116 million patients suffer with chronic pain. The economic burden of chronic pain is quite significant, at an annual cost of…
How an experienced neurologist uses the history of the patient’s illness, the neurological examination, and investigations to diagnose neurological disease is discussed in Chapter 1, Chapter 33 . This chapter presents some general principles guiding the management of neurological disease.…
Neuroendocrinology, in its broadest sense, is the study of the coordinated interaction of the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems to maintain the constancy of the internal milieu (homeostasis). This chapter concentrates on the functions of the hypothalamus and its interaction…
The past decade has seen a rich interaction between the fields of neurology and immunology. This has provided further insight into the mechanisms of immunologically mediated neurological diseases and given rise to new therapies for many neuroimmunological diseases, including multiple…