Neurologic disease in women /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kaplan, Peter W., 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Demos Medical Pub., [2006]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Gender differences in diseases of the nervous system
  • Sex differences in regional brain structure and function
  • Women's lives and their experiences with health care
  • Drug treatments and trials in women
  • Reproductive and metabolic disorders with AED use
  • Effect of ovarian hormones on the nervous system
  • Genetic neurologic disorders in females
  • Women, law, and neurologic disease
  • Neurologic disease in girls
  • Menstruation and pregnancy : interactions with neurologic disease
  • Obstetric issues in women with neurologic diseases
  • The menopausal transition : changing physiology, symptoms, and hormone therapy
  • Frailty in elderly women
  • Migraine
  • Seizures and epilepsy in women
  • Eclampsia
  • Cerebrovascular disease in women
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • 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
  • The neurologic basis of common pelvic floor 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