Early Diagnosis and Preventive Therapy in Parkinson’s Disease

  • Horst Przuntek
  • Peter Riederer
Conference proceedings

Part of the Key Topics in Brain Research book series (KEYTOPICS)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages I-XIV
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  2. The premorbid personality of patients with Parkinson’s disease
    W. Poewe, F. Gerstenbrand, E. Karamat, B. Schmidhuber-Eiler
    Pages 1-7
  3. Parkinson’s disease: development of dementia in aging
    W. Danielczyk, P. Fischer
    Pages 9-17
  4. Psychometric assessment of early signs of dementia in special consideration of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease—an update
    R. Steinberg, H. Przuntek
    Pages 19-32
  5. Sensory and musculo-skeletal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease—premonitory and permanent
    M. B. Streifler
    Pages 33-39
  6. Autonomic nervous system screening in patients with early Parkinson’s disease
    A. D. Korczyn
    Pages 41-48
  7. Clinical and biochemical characteristics of early depression in Parkinson’s disease
    W. Kuhn, G. Fuchs, G. Laux, R. Rupprecht, H. Przuntek
    Pages 49-54
  8. Psychomotor investigations in depressed patients by comparison with Parkinson patients
    G. Laux, W. Kuhn, W. Classen
    Pages 55-63
  9. Quantitative analysis of voluntary and involuntary motor phenomena in Parkinson’s disease
    H. Hefter, V. Hömberg, H.-J. Freund
    Pages 65-73
  10. Motor performance test
    P. H. Kraus, H. Przuntek
    Pages 75-82
  11. Measuring body movements in neurological disease, with special reference to Parkinson’s disease
    G. Steg, B. Johnels, P. E. Ingvarsson, M. Thorselius
    Pages 83-91
  12. Long-term measurement of tremor: early diagnostic possibilities
    E. Scholz, M. Bacher, A. Bellenberg, S. Hart, H. C. Diener, J. Dichgans
    Pages 93-102
  13. Tremor and electrically elicited long-latency reflexes in early stages of Parkinson’s disease
    G. Deuschl, C. H. Lücking
    Pages 103-110
  14. Evoked potentials in Parkinson’s disease
    J. Jörg
    Pages 111-115
  15. Brain mapping of EEG and evoked Potentials during physiological aging and in Parkinson’s disease, dementia and depression
    K. Maurer, R. Ihl, W. Kuhn, T. Dierks
    Pages 117-124
  16. Positron emission tomography in Parkinson’s disease glucose metabolism
    M. Huber, K. Herholz, V. Holthoff, W.-D. Heiss
    Pages 125-128
  17. Parkinson’s disease studied using PET
    K. L. Leenders
    Pages 129-137
  18. Pathobiochemistry of the extrapyramidal system: a “short note” review
    P. Riederer, E. Sofic, W. D. Rausch, G. Hebenstreit, J. Bruinvels
    Pages 139-149
  19. Dopaminergic neurotransmission and status of brain iron
    M. B. H. Youdim
    Pages 151-160
  20. Dopaminergic modulation of neuropeptide gene expression in the rat striatum
    V. Höllt, B. Morris
    Pages 161-169

About these proceedings

Keywords

Alzheimer Aspartat Glutamat Glutamin Nervous System Parkinson biochemistry brainstem catecholamines dopamine gene expression metabolism neurons transplantation

Editors and affiliations

  • Horst Przuntek
    • 1
  • Peter Riederer
    • 2
  1. 1.St. Josef HospitalUniversity of BochumBochumFederal Republic of Germany
  2. 2.Clinical Neurochemistry, Department of PsychiatryUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgFederal Republic of Germany

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8994-8
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Vienna 1989
  • Publisher Name Springer, Vienna
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-3-211-82080-3
  • Online ISBN 978-3-7091-8994-8
  • Series Print ISSN 0934-1420
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