A practical guide for the diagnosis and management of elderly patients with neurological disease.

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A practical guide for the diagnosis and management of elderly patients with neurological disease.

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1 The Neurological Examination of The Elderly Patient.- History-taking.- The General Examination.- Temperature.- Blood Pressure.- Aids, Appliances and Chairs.- The Neurological Examination.- 2 The Investigation of the Elderly Patient.- Lumbar Puncture.- Computed Tomography (CT) Scan.- Electroencephalography (EEG).- Electromyography (EMG) and Nerve Conduction Velocity (NCV).- Evoked Potential Recording.- Myelography.- Angiography.- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).- 3 Confusion and Dementia.- History.- Examination.- Acute and Subacute Organic Brain Syndromes.- Dementia: Chronic Organic Brain Syndromes.- Parkinson's Disease and Dementia.- Dementia of Frontal Type.- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus.- Pseudodementia.- 4 Disturbances of Gait and Balance, and Falls.- Maintenance of Posture and the Effects of Age and Age-related Disease.- Neuropathies.- Subacute Combined Degeneration of the Cord.- Gait Dyspraxia.- 5 Headache and Facial Neuralgia.- Headache.- Facial Neuralgia.- 6 Some Visual Problems.- Episodic Visual Disturbance.- Persistent and Progressive Visual Disturbance.- Double Vision.- Visual Hallucinations and Disorders of Visual Perception.- 7 Incontinence.- Urinary Incontinence.- Faecal Incontinence.- Conclusion.- 8 Parkinsonism and Abnormal Movement Disorders.- The Presenting Symptoms and Signs of Parkinsonism.- The Examination of the Patient with Parkinsonism.- Other Signs in Parkinsonism.- Assessment.- Course.- Parkinson's Disease and Senile Parkinsonism.- Abnormal Movement Disorders: Dystonias.- 9 Attacks of Loss of Consciousness and Disturbance of Memory.- Attacks of Loss of Consciousness.- Amnesic States.- 10 Loss of Use in the Upper Limb.- The History.- The Examination.- Abnormal Involuntary Movements.- 11 Neurological Presentations of General MedicalDisorders.- Diabetesm Mellitus.- Hypoglycaemia.- Thyroid Disease.- Disorders of Water and Mineral Metabolism.- Disorders of Calcium Metabolism.- Alcohol and Alcoholism.- Nutritional and other Vitamin Deficiencies.- Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Malignant Disease.- Herpes Zoster.- Myeloma and Dysproteinaemias.- Drugs.- References and Further Reading.