Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Title
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / edited by Hiroshi Mitsumoto, Serge Przedborski, Paul H. Gordon.
- Published by
- Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2006.
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- Description
- xxvi, 830 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm.
- Series statement
- Neurological disease and therapy ; 78
- Uniform title
- Neurological disease and therapy ; v. 78.
- Subject
- Contents
- 1. History of ALS / Paul H. Gordon -- 2. Epidemiology of ALS / Valerie McGuire and Lorene M. Nelson -- 3. The pathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Arthur P. Hays -- 4. The causes of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Lewis P. Rowland -- 5. ALS clinical motor signs and symptoms / Valerie A. Cwik -- 6. Frontotemporal dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Catherine Lomen-Hoerth and Michael J. Strong -- 7. Familial ALS and genetic approaches to ALS / Teepu Siddique and Lisa Dellefave -- 8. Objective markers of upper and lower motor neuron dysfunction : electrophysiological studies and neuroimaging technologies / Clifton L. Gooch, Petra Kaufmann and Seth Pullman -- 9. Classification, diagnosis, and presentation of diagnosis of ALS / David A. Chad -- 10. Natural history and prognosis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Brian Murray -- 11. Specifying motor neuron identity in the developing spinal cord / Thomas M. Jessell -- 12. Neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Gabriele Almer and Wim Robberecht -- 13. Excitotoxicity / Paul R. Heath and Pamela J. Shaw -- 14. Superoxide dismutase, oxidative stress, and ALS / Joseph S. Beckman and Alvaro G. Estevez -- 15. Neuronal and non-neuronal cell interactions in ALS / Jeffrey L. Elliott -- 16. Apoptosis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Ian F. Dunn and Robert M. Friedlander -- 17. Cytoskeletal proteins in the pathogenesis of ALS / Michael J. Strong, Jesse McLean and Jean-Pierre Julien -- 18. Role of mitochondria in motor neuron degeneration in ALS / Zuoshang Xu and Jiming Kong -- 19. Environmental toxicity and ALS : novel insights from an animal model of ALS-PDC / C. A. Shaw and J. M. B. Wilson -- 20. Genetic causes and predisposition / Silke Schmidt and Jeffery M. Vance -- 21. ALS : a protein aggregate disease? / A. Radunovic, A. Dawson, J. M. Gallo and Peter Nigel Leigh -- 22. Neuroinflammation / Albert A. Yen, Ericka P. Simpson and Stanley H. Appel -- 23. The potential of gene therapy for motor neuron diseases / Cedric Raoul and Patrick Aebischer -- 24. Experimental models of motor neuron diseases / Makiko Nagai, Hitoshi Kikuchi and Serge Przedborski -- 25. Screening for ALS drugs / Thierry Bordet, Rebecca Pruss and Christopher E. Henderson -- 26. Clinical trial methodology / Paul H. Gordon -- 27. The multidisciplinary care clinic : the principles and an international perspective / Hiroshi Mitsumoto, Gian Domenico Borasio, Angela L. Genge, Orla Hardiman, Peter Nigel Leigh, Vincent Meininger, Wim Robberecht, Toyokazu Saito and Markus Weber -- 28. The ALS patient CARE program - North American patient CARE database / Robert G. Miller, Fred Anderson, Neelam Gowda, Wei Huang, Walter G. Bradley, Benjamin R. Brooks, Hiroshi Mitsumoto, Dan H. Moore, Steve Ringel, Linda Boynton De Sepulveda, Laura Coker, Noah Lechtzin and Mark Ross -- 29. Symptomatic pharmacotherapy : bulbar and constitutional symptoms / Carlayne E. Jackson and Jeffrey Rosenfeld -- 30. ALS pharmacotherapy : riluzole and clinical trials / Petra Kaufmann -- 31. Rehabilitation / Lisa S. Krivickas, Vanina Dal Bello-Haas, Suzanne E. Danforth and Gregory T. Carter -- 32. Nutritional treatment : theoretical and practical issues / Lan Chi T. Luu, Edward J. Kasarskis and Rup Tandan -- 33. Respiratory care in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Terry Heiman-Patterson and Loutfi S. Aboussouan -- 34. Psychosocial care for patients with ALS and their caregivers / Gian Domenico Borasio, Mark Bromberg, Maura L. Del Bene and Hiroshi Mitsumoto -- 35. Palliative care at the end of life / Nigel P. Sykes -- 36. Palliative care : family perspective / Steven M. Albert, Judith G. Rabkin and Maura L. Del Bene -- 37. End-of-life decision making / Linda Ganzini and Wendy Johnston.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.