Neurologic disease in women
By: edited by Peter W. Kaplan.
Contributors: Kaplan, Peter W., 1951-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Demos Medical Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Nervous system -- Diseases; Women -- Diseases; Sex factors in disease; Nervous System Diseases; Sex Factors; Women's Health
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender differences in diseases of the nervous system / Joan C. Amatniek, Lauren C. Frey, and W. Allen Hauser; title: Sex differences in regional brain structure and function / Susan M. Resnick; title: Women's lives and their experiences with health care / Aileen MacLaren and Nancy Fugate Woods; title: Drug treatments and trials in women / Stephen D. Silberstein; title: Reproductive and metabolic disorders with AED use / Martha Morrell; title: Effect of ovarian hormones on the nervous system / Pavel Klein and Donald L. Schomer; title: Genetic neurologic disorders in females / Orest Hurko; title: Women, law, and neurologic disease / H. Richard Beresford; title: Neurologic disease in girls / S. Lane Rutledge and Holly Mussell; title: Menstruation and pregnancy: interactions with neurologic disease / James O. Donaldson III; title: Obstetric issues in women with neurologic diseases / Errol R. Norwitz and John T. Repke; title: The menopausal transition: changing physiology, symptoms, and hormone therapy / Nancy Fugate Woods; title: Frailty in elderly women / E. Jeffrey Metter; title: Migraine / Ramesh Khurana; title: Seizures and epilepsy in women / Martha Morrell; title: Eclampsia / Peter W. Kaplan; title: Cerebrovascular disease in women / Rafael S. Llinas and Carla J. Weisman; title: Multiple sclerosis / P. K. Coyle and Mustafa Hammad; title: Optic neuritis / Neil R. Miller; title: Peripheral nerve disease in women / Alan R. Moore, E. Wayne Massey, and Janice M. Massey; title: Muscle disease in women / James M. Gilchrist; title: Neurologic presentations of autoimmune disorders in women / Michelle Petri; title: Gender differences in movement disorders / Yvette M. Bordelon and Stanley Fahn; title: Chorea gravidarum / Gretchen L. Birbeck; title: Giant cell arteritis / David B. Hellmann; title: The neurologic basis of common pelvic floor disorders / Linda Brubaker and J. Thomas Benson; title: Infections of the nervous system in women / David N. Irani; title: Neuro-oncological diseases in women / Alessandro Olivi and John J. Laterra; title: Pseudomotor cerebri / Neil R. Miller; title: Alzheimer disease in women / Julene K. Johnson and Kristine Yaffe; title: Psychiatric disorders in women / Angela S. Guarda and Karen L. Swartz; title: Nonepileptic, psychogenic, and hysterical seizures / Allan Krumholz and Tricia Ting.