This book logically and systematically reviews the major movement disorder emergencies. It instructs the reader on how to recognize and manage these problems. This updated new edition of Movement Disorder Emergencies consists of five comprehensive sections. It begins with chapters that relay the various practical approaches one can administer when treating a patient with a movement disorder emergency. Section two then delves into specific hyperacute movement disorder emergencies such as acute parkinsonism, serotonin syndrome, and malignant catatonia. Following this, section three examines various acute movement disorder emergencies, including tic emergencies and Sydenham's chorea. Sections four and five explore issues that can occur during treatment, such as pitfalls in diagnosis and risks in the clinic. Written by prominent neurologists from around the world, Movement Disorder Emergencies, 3rd edition is a practical reference that achieves excellence in diagnosis and management of movement disorder emergencies.

This book presents a comprehensive, practical approach to the evaluation of movement disorders using phenomenological basic principles, new discoveries in phenomenological research, and core values of outpatient neurology. Movement Disorders Phenomenology begins with an overview of phenomenology and common approaches to movement disorder patients. Subsequent chapters then accurately and concisely relay information on major hypokinetic disorders such as atypical Parkinsonism, idiopathic Parkinson's disease, cortical myoclonus, and complex motor tics. Expertly written text is further supplemented by patient vignettes at the beginning of select chapter that focus the reader's attention and highlight the urgency of the problem. These high quality videos aid in the astute clinical diagnosis of many movement disorders that are still largely dependent on visual pattern recognition in the clinic. The book closes with a timely discussion on the role of genetics in movement disorders. Written for the practicing physician, Movement Disorders Phenomenology is an indispensable reference for neurology residents, general neurologists, movement disorders fellows and clinicians, and to any clinician who encounters and evaluates patients in the outpatient arena.

In The Neurology of String Instrument Performance: A Practical Guide for Clinicians, Teachers and Performers, a noted neurologist-researcher and classically trained string instrumentalist offers the first in-depth and comprehensive overview of the field, including detailed, practical advice for string injury prevention and management. With the explosive advances in neurological measurement and imaging technologies in the last decade, research on the interplay between science and music has expanded dramatically. One of these subfields, the neurology of music, has grown significantly in recent years, and the field of string instrumental performance is now benefitting extensively from this burgeoning neurological research and scholarship. As a result, the standard of clinical care for tens of thousands of string instrument performers worldwide is rising steadily. The neurology of string instrument performance is vibrant because the creation of music uses so many of the neurological structures, engaging many different areas of the body. From a research and clinical standpoint, there are many questions to consider: For example, do serious medical problems in string performers arise from incorrect performing habits? This is just one of the central and vitally important topics for medical professionals caring for these patients-without correction of an offending posture or technique, patients may recover from their problem only to have it recur. Adding significant value to this unique title is access to fascinating online video material that provides a range of vignettes of selected clinical cases. Disorders in string instrument performers demonstrated and discussed include task-specific tremor, focal dystonia, Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, enhanced physiologic tremor, focal atrophy, and others. The online video material also includes illustrations of the parameters of normal playing on violin, viola and violoncello. The title is structured in three major parts: Part 1 -- Basic Mechanics, Part 2 - Clinical Cases, and Part 3 - The Neurology of Musical Performance. Thus the book begins with a review of the background of string instrument instruction, the motor demands of the instruments, the emerging literature on the biomechanics of string instrument performance, and current thoughts on musical pedagogy. The book includes the controversies surrounding the nature vs. nurture arguments, reviews other "experiments of nature" that impact musical processing (absolute pitch, synaesthesia, William's syndrome, savants), reviews neuroimaging and neurophysiologic studies of the development of cortical plasticity and musical exposure, and discusses several historical examples of musical prodigies. This volume also answers important questions of string instrument performance and motor control of the hand, including: How did the hand develop? What evolutionary forces determined its present development and structure? How do these characteristics help or hinder the mechanical requirements of string instrument performance? The neurology of the human hand is reviewed, with background dating back to Charles Bell, Darwin, and Gowers, and to modern anthropological studies, including Napier and others. Modern hand structure is related to current demands of instrumental performance. Finally the book also investigates how the motor system learns and the role of imitation or observation in motor learning. The powerful discovery of the mirror neuron system is reviewed, and the benefits and limitations of learning by action observation are covered. Functional imaging studies of action observation and learning are reviewed. The implications of these findings are related to Suzuki instruction and to other modern techniques of early childhood learning. Focal task-specific dystonia of the musician's hand is one of the most unusual and intriguing disorders in neurology. The clinical phenotype of focal dystonia in string players is reviewed, along with recent neuroimaging and genetic studies that inform our understanding of this unusual disorder or motor control. Comprehensive and engagingly written, The Neurology of String Instrument Performance: A Practical Guide for Clinicians, Teachers and Performers is a ground-breaking contribution to the field and an indispensable guide for all physicians, researchers, teachers, and performers interested in the neurological background and clinical concerns surrounding string performance.