Publisher's Synopsis
This major textbook deals comprehensively with the neurological disorders of old age, and provides an essentially practical guide to their presentation and management. Forty specialist contributors give a broad range of coverage, discussing the influence of age on the pattern of disease, and giving an up-to-date account of changing knowledge of both the well-known and relatively unexplored areas of geriatric neurology.;Practical approaches are given to symptoms such as giddiness, episodic loss of consciousness, headaches and confusional states which occur frequently in the elderly. The book also contains a large section on neurological rehabilitation.
