Although there appears to be a general understanding that the human brain functions similarly in women and in men, an increasing body of knowledge indicates that neuronal connectivity, recruitment, and disease patterns exhibit gender differences. There are clear gender differences in genetic expression, physiologic function, metabolism, hormonal makeup, and psychosocial profile, which often modify the clinical expression of neurologic and other diseases. In addition, ethnic, cultural, and economic factors are frequently overlooked in dealing with health problems of women, even though they undoubtedly have a strong influence on the clinical course of the illness.
The second edition of Neurologic Disease in Women, the only text to specifically cover this important topic, will help physicians and other medical personnel seeking information relevant to clinical care. Sections address general anatomic, hormonal, epidemiologic, and drug aspects of women’s health; neurologic conditions that arise during childhood, pregnancy, adulthood, and old age in females; and particular neurologic conditions that present differently or predominantly in females.
There have been important advances in several areas prompting new chapters, new approaches and additional information provided in chapters on hormonal effects in women and the use of HRT; the adverse effects of antiepileptic drugs on hormonal homeostasis, weight and bone health; and cardiovascular diseases in women. New chapters include ones on reproductive and metabolic disorders with AED use, and on movement disorders.
Tabella dei contenuti
General Issues in Women ; Sex Differences in Regional Brain Structure and Function; Gender Differences in Diseases of the Nervous System; Women’s Lives and Their Experiences with Health Care; Drug Treatments and Trials in Women; Reproductive and Metabolic Disorders with AED Use; Efffect of Ovarian Hormones on the Nervous System; Genetic Neurologic Disorders in Females; Women, Law, and Neurologic Disease;
Life Stages and Neurologic Disease in Women ; Neurologic Disease in Girls; Menstruation and Pregnancy: Interactions with Neurologic Disease; Obstetric and Gynecologic Issues in Women with Neurologic Disease; The Menopausal Transition: Changing Physiology, Symptoms, and Hormone Therapy; Frailty in Elderly Women;
Neurologic Disorders in Women ; Migraine; Seizures and Epilepsy in Women; Eclampsia; Cerebrovascular Disease in Women; Multiple Schlerosis; Optic Neuritis; Peripheral Nerve Disease in Women; Muscle Disease in Women; Neurologic Presentations of Autoimmune Disorders in Women; Gender Differences in Movement Disorders; Chorea Gravidarum; Giant Cell Arteritis; Neurologic Basis of Common Pelvic Flood Disorders; Infections of the Nervous System in Women; Neuro-oncological Diseases in Women; Pseudomotor Cerebri; Alzheimer Disease in Women; Psychiatric Disorders in Women; Nonepileptic, Psychogenic, and Hysterical Seizures.
Circa l’autore
Peter W. Kaplan, MD, is Professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.
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