Early Diagnosis and Preventive Therapy in Parkinson’s Disease

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Przuntek, Horst (Editor), Riederer, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
Series:Key Topics in Brain Research
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Tremor and electrically elicited long-latency reflexes in early stages of Parkinson’s disease
  • Evoked potentials in Parkinson’s disease
  • Brain mapping of EEG and evoked potentials during physiological aging and in Parkinson’s disease, dementia and depression
  • Positron emission tomography in Parkinson’s disease glucose metabolism
  • Parkinson’s disease studied using PET
  • Pathobiochemistry of the extrapyramidal system: a “short note” review
  • Dopaminergic neurotransmission and status of brain iron
  • Dopaminergic modulation of neuropeptide gene expression in the rat striatum
  • The diagnostic relevance of Lewy bodies and other inclusions in Parkinson’s disease
  • Cytoskeletal pathology of the Lewy bodies
  • Plasma concentrations of endogenous DOPA and 3-O-methyl-DOPA in rats administered benserazide and carbidopa alone or in combination with the reversible COMT inhibitorRo41-0960
  • Catecholamines in urine, blood and cerebrospinal fluid
  • The premorbid personality of patients with Parkinson’s disease
  • Parkinson’s disease: development of dementia in aging
  • Psychometric assessment of early signs of dementia in special consideration of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease — an update
  • Sensory and musculo-skeletal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease—premonitory and permanent
  • Autonomic nervous system screening in patients with early Parkinson’s disease
  • Clinical and biochemical characteristics of early depression in Parkinson’s disease
  • Psychomotor investigations in depressed patients by comparison with Parkinson patients
  • Quantitative analysis of voluntary and involuntary motor phenomena in Parkinson’s disease
  • Motor performance test
  • Measuring body movements in neurological disease, with special reference to Parkinson’s disease
  • Long-term measurement of tremor: early diagnostic possibilities
  • 3H-spiperone binding to lymphocytes is increased in schizophrenic patients and decreased in parkinson patients
  • Platelet MAO-B activity in humans and stumptail monkeys: in vivo effects of the reversible MAO-B inhibitor Ro19-6327
  • Aspartate, glutamate, and glutamine in platelets of patients with Parkinson’s disease
  • Hypothalamic dysfunction and neuroendocrine research in Parkinson’s disease
  • The MPTP model: an update
  • Histochemistry of MAO subtypes in the brainstem of humans: a relation to the radical hypothesis of Parkinson’s disease?
  • Importance of dopaminergic and GABAergic neurones of the nucleus accumbens and the caudate nucleus for motoricity
  • Is D-1 receptor stimulation important for the anti-parkinson activity of dopamine agonists?
  • Pharmacological and clinical-pharmacological aspects of D1- and D2-receptors
  • Chemical modulation of membrane-bound receptors
  • Transplantation of dopamine-synthesizing cells — new therapy for Parkinson’s disease?
  • L-dopa in Parkinson’s disease
  • Pharmacokinetic investigations of various levodopa formulations
  • Iron therapy in Parkinson’s disease. Stimulation of endogenous presynaptic L-DOPA biosynthesis by the iron compound oxyferriscorbone
  • Provisional experiences with the combination of L-dopa and L-deprenyl
  • Clinical pharmacology of amantadine and derivatives
  • Dopamine agonist treatment in early Parkinson’s disease
  • Subcutaneous apomorphine in Parkinson’s disease
  • Continuous dopaminergic stimulation with parenteral lisuride in complicated Parkinson’s disease
  • Discussion