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Book review
Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders. Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines for the Practicing Physician
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Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders. Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines for the Practicing Physician. Edited by charles h adkerand j eric ahlskog (Pp 480, US$ 125.00). Published by Humana Press, New Jersey, 2000. ISBN 0 896 03607 3.
The authors state that this book is aimed at the primary care physician or perhaps the “general” neurologist who is not an expert in the movement disorders field. As such, they have emphasised the clinical aspects of each condition including differential diagnosis with only an outline of the various treatment options.
It is divided into five sections. The first covers basic principles taking us back to the basic phenomenology of movement disorders and also basic neuroanatomy. There then follows …