Handbook of Parkinson's disease

In order to understand what it means to define successfully, students must develop both a foundation of this disease and an understanding of the key elements. I wrote this book to provide a framework for learning these necessary things in a way that emphasizes the uniqueness of each. This text will help with these teaching challenges. The book is organized into subsections that reflect the general flow used with our students, but most chapters can be read out of sequence without difficulty once the introductory section is completed. Although there is not universal agreement on common phrases, terms, abbreviations, and acronyms, we have adopted those which we consider the most accepted in the fields of pathophysiology mechanism and their present situation and further study or research. The Glossary should help novices to decipher this sometimes bewildering array of terminology. Likewise, we are committed to a worthwhile Index so that readers can quickly identify the extent of coverage on topics of particular importance to them; textual phrases in bold font are indexed and usually represent their first appearances in the book or section.