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... THERAPEUTICS of PARKINSON’S DISEASE and OTHER MOVEMENT DISORDERS Therapeutics of Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders Edited by Mark Hallett and Werner Poewe © ... 978-0-470-06648-5 THERAPEUTICS of PARKINSON’S DISEASE and OTHER MOVEMENT DISORDERS Edited by MARK HALLETT National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, USA and WERNER POEWE ... A.J., Jenner, P and Marsden, C.D (1991) Alterations in the levels of iron, ferritin and other trace metals in Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases affecting the basal ganglia...

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... function of the basal ganglia and the pathophysiology of movement disorders and will, in turn, promote the improvement of current and the development of new therapeutic approaches to the treatment of ... actions in other areas of the circuitry or even by other cortical areas not directly related to the motor portion of the basal ganglia MOVEMENT DISORDERS Although the precise role of the basal ... regions of the pars diffusa of the PPN The fibers that arise from the associative and limbic territories of the GPi are more widely spread than the afferents from the sensorimotor territory Another...

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... cotransfection of U1-70K, but not by cotransfection of another U1 snRNP protein, U1-A We demonstrated that the HMGA1a binding site of PS2 pre-mRNA exists in the upstream of the 5Ј splice of the exon Therefore, ... psychogeriatrics The success of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Dementia Study Society and the International Symposium on Neurobiology of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders in October ... topics of neurobiological study of Alzheimer’s disease include the unraveling of the molecular mechanisms of neurofibrillary tangle formation in neuronal and glial cells; the molecular processing of...

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... Philadelphia The ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS provides up-to-date information on the history of, causes and effects of, and treatment and therapies for problems affecting the human mind The ... one hand that they can no longer take care of their relative, while on the other hand hating the idea that their loved one is away from his or her home and surrounded by strangers FRIENDS AT THE ... ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS One of the tragic effects of Alzheimer’s is that children and grandchildren may become strangers to victims of the disease Humans are defined, in part, by the...

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... membrane of cells in the brain, reducing the statistical count quality of the image); and placing the patient’s brain symmetrically with respect to the plane of the ring of detectors, so that the ... and Review of Systems Gathering information about previous episodes of memory loss, mood or other psychiatric disorders, and medical conditions and procedures are pertinent to understanding the ... one and a half decades of friendship and support they have offered personally and, in addition, professionally in their roles heading the Ahmanson Biological Imaging Division, and Department of...

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... Handbook of Stress: Neuropsychological Effects on the Brain Edited by Cheryl D Conrad The Handbook of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias Edited by Andrew E Budson and Neil W Kowall The Handbook ... The Handbook of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias Wiley-Blackwell Handbooks of Behavioral Neuroscience The rapidly expanding field of behavioral neuroscience examines ... Kowall The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language (2 Volumes) Edited by Miriam Faust The Handbook of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias Edited by Andrew E Budson and Neil W Kowall A...

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... presentation At the other end of the age spectrum, Huntington's disease may also present atypically Families are described in whom the disease usually presents after the age of 50 years and then in the form ... tremor in the early stages of the disease is distinctly uncommon, although it appears in half of the cases during the later stages of the disease The condition is equally likely as Parkinson's disease ... to write with the other hand, although at the risk of then developing the problem in that hand as well Treatment Treatment of the focal dystonias has been largely ineffective in the past, although...

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... degenerative changes occur at other sites, including the locus ceruleus, the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus, the hypothalamus, the nucleus basalis of Meynert and the sympathetic ganglia Cortical ... posturing of the proximal arm muscles Occasionally, the problem remits Eventually, some patients learn to write with the other hand, although at the risk of then developing the problem in that hand ... 23 and2 4) Cortical Lewy body disease The prevalence of a cortical-type dementia in Parkinson’s disease has long been debated Most of the recent surveys give a figure of between 15 and 20% of the...

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... responsible for the report's scientific accuracy and conclusions The assessment was prepared at the request of the Indoor Air Division, Office of Atmospheric and Indoor Air Programs, Office of Air and Radiation, ... integration of the results xvi AUTHORS, CONTRIBUTORS, AND REVIEWERS This document was prepared by the Office of Health and Environmental Assessment (OHEA) within the Office of Research and Development, ... by the Indoor Air Division within the Office of Air and Radiation's Office of Atmospheric and Indoor Air Programs Steven P Bayard1 was the OHEA project manager with overall responsibility for the...

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... tremor, there was a peak at Hz, exactly half of their other peak in the alpha band Other components were in the midline and ap- peared to be modulated by the expectation of pressing the button, ... regions of the cerebral cortex and thalamus (Alexander et al., 1986) so that loss of dopamine in the motor portion of the striatum (the putamen) exerts strong effects on all other elements of the ... roles of the basal ganglia and dopamine Modeling of the basal ganglia has played a major role in our understanding of the physiology and pathophysiology of this elusive group of nuclei These...

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... Psychological Disorders Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias Psychological Disorders Addiction Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias Anxiety Disorders Child Abuse and Stress Disorders Depression and ... and breathing The brain regions affected by dementias are located both in the outer layers of the brain, the cortex, and in deeper structures of the brain The cerebral cortex is the area of the ... high blood pressure, and as a result Alzheimer’s has become the most common type of dementia.7 11 12 Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias OTHER DEMENTIAS Other kinds of dementia each represent...

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... dentine of teeth, the sympathetic and parasympathetic arms of the peripheral nervous system, and the neurons of the ENS are derived form the NC These tissues and cell types originate from The enteric ... Continued study of the ENS and the molecular genetics of these conditions may shed further light on these issues and provide a better understanding of the choice of management in the future for ... Cells The colonization of the gut by sacral NC-derived cells The NC is located along the entire length of the body axis and the contribution of the cells to the development of Two groups of undifferentiated...

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... pronation and supination of the hand (repetitively slapping the palm and then the dorsal surface of the hand on the thigh) may be similarly analyzed Similarly, alternating opening and closing of a ... feet Observe the feet while the patient walks Normally with each step, the patient plants the heel with the foot dorsiflexed and then rocks the foot forward to push off with the ball of the foot ... the design of this book The first half of the book focuses on parkinsonian and other hypokinetic disorders, including conditions in which parkinsonism is only one component The last half of the...

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... “delivery” to the “target organ” (the decision-maker) This fate and transport terminology is adopted because it is part of the vernacular of many of those providing the information and of many of ... dozen There was an effort to ensure balance in the group of respondents for any particular case study, but because of the relatively small number of respondents and the non-random nature of the ... pedestrian As a group, the cases tend toward the “high-profile” end of the distribution of EPA decisions Nevertheless, among the case studies, there is some variability in the political and economic stakes...

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... probably not the primary cause of the memory loss in MCI, although these studies not rule out other types of cholinergic dysfunction early in the disease course On the other hand, DeKosky and colleagues ... like the synapse data, the means of Aβ load are midway between AD cases and controls, but that the individual cases lie either in the range of normals or in the range of AD cases On the other hand, ... biomarker profile It is also not yet clear whether the decrease of CSF Aβ42 and the increase of (P)tau actually reflect the plaques and tangles in AD Other explanations are the use of different...

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... part of the “Land of Israel” and that it is their religious duty to settle in the West Bank They are the pioneers of the settlement movement and typically live in settlements in the northern and ... on the claim that they serve the “natural growth” needs of a settlement.24 The creation of an outpost close to a settlement expands the amount of land under the mother settlement's control The ... dispossession of their land in the areas west of the Barrier if their access continues to be denied.39 Through the application and reinterpretation of the Ottoman Land Code to the West Bank,...

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