Handbook of Cerebellar Diseases - Neurological Disease and Therapy

This text examines the most common clinical disturbances affecting the cerebellum and examines disorders that appear to be related to this part of the brain, highlighting the impact of new neuro-imaging techniques and advances in molecular genetics. It provides many state-of-the-art computerized tomography and magnetic resonance illustrations, designed to familiarize the clinician with normal and abnormal cerebellar features.;Written by international authorities in the field, the Handbook of Cerebellar Diseases, amongst other things: details the signs and symptoms of hereditary disturbances of co-ordination, as well as their genetic bases and risks; presents exercises in molecular genetics that explain where the current investigations into hereditary degenerative diseases are leading; offers therapies, such as the management of cerebellar tumours and approaches to congenital anomalies, which take recent progress into account; covers slow-viral diseases, paraneoplastic disorders, vascular diseases, demyelination and toxic damage, and considers treatment options wherever they exist; and discusses tremors in-depth, as well as the clinical aspects of progressive ataxias.