edited by David R. Lynch ; associate editor Jennifer M. Farmer
New York :
Taylor & Francis,
2006
xxi, 755 p. :
ill. ;
26 cm
Neurological disease and therapy ;
75
Includes bibliographical references and index
Friedreich ataxia / Martin B. Delatycki ... [et al.] -- Autosomal dominant ataxias / Susan L. Perlman -- Huntington's disease: mechanisms of pathogenesis and development of new therapies / Blair R. Leavitt and Lynn A. Raymond -- Wilson's disease / George J. Brewer -- Neurogenetics of dystonia and paroxysmal dyskinesias / Jennifer Friedman and David G. Standaert -- Inherited epilepsies / Yr Sigurdardottir and Annapurna Poduri -- Leukodystrophies / James Y. Garbern -- Lysosomal storage disorders / David A. Wenger and Stephanie Coppola -- The tuberous sclerosis complex: clinical manifestations and molecular genetics / John R. Pollard and Peter B. Crino -- Neurofibromatosis / Amit Malhotra, James Dowling, and David H. Gutmann -- Genetics of Parkinson's disease / Sathya R. Sriram, Valina L. Dawson, and Ted M. Dawson -- Alzheimer's disease / R. Scott Turner -- Tauopathies / John C. van Swieten -- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Teepu Siddique and Lisa Dellefave -- Prion diseases / William S. Baek and James A. Mastrianni
Neurogenetics in the clinic / Thomas D. Bird -- Genetic testing for neurological disorders / Martha A. Nance -- Genetic counseling / Robin L. Bennett -- Gene therapy for inherited diseases of the central nervous system / Tyler Mark Pierson and John H. Wolfe -- Ethical dilemmas in neurogenetics / Wendy R. Uhlmann -- Autosominal dominant Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and related disorders / Craig L. Bennett -- Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies / Leta S. Steffen and Louis M. Kunkel -- The congenital and limb-girdle muscular dystrophies / Janbernd Kirschner and Carsten G. Bönnemann -- Non-dystrophic myotonias and periodic paralyses / Arie Struyk and Stephen Cannon -- The myotonic dystrophies - effets of an RNA mutation / John W. Day and Laura P.W. Ranum -- Spinal muscular atrophy / Stephen J. Kolb and J. Paul Taylor -- Hereditary spastic paraplegia / Kleopas A. Kleopa -- Mitochondrial disorders / Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne and Michio Hirano --