Understanding Parkinson's Disease
Subtitle: A Personal and Professional View
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: October 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780275991661
Subjects: Coping with illness; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Medical; Consumer Health; Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain); Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Neurology - General; Parkinson Disease; Parkinson's disease
Description: Chapter 7. A Better Model of Parkinson's Disease: Dopamine Nerve Cells Connect to Many Parts of the Brain -- Dopamine is One of Many Neurotransmitters That Are Important in Parkinson's Disease -- Patients with Parkinson's Disease Lose Cells from Many Areas of the Brain -- Chapter 8. Brain Surgery for Parkinson's Disease: Can Destroying Part of the Brain Be Good? -- "Brain Transplantation" Implanting New Brain Cells -- Gene Therapy -- Chapter 9. Living with Parkinson's Disease -- Mood, Behavior, and Parkinson's Disease -- Can L-Dopa Make People Gamble? -- Are Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related? -- Sleep and Parkinson's Disease -- Fall and Injury Prevention -- Chapter 10. Conclusions: What Happens to Brain Cells to Cause Parkinson's Disease? -- Living Better with Parkinson's Disease -- The Story of Parkinson's Disease Is Not Finished.