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This text examines the most common clinical disturbances affecting the cerebellum and examines disorders that appear to be related to this part of the brain, highlighting the impact of new neuro-imaging techniques and advances in molecular genetics. It provides many state-of-the-art computerized tomography and magnetic resonance illustrations, designed to familiarize the clinician with normal and abnormal cerebellar features.;Written by international authorities in the field, the Handbook of Cerebellar Diseases, amongst other things: details the signs and symptoms of hereditary disturbances of co-ordination, as well as their genetic bases and risks; presents exercises in molecular genetics that explain where the current investigations into hereditary degenerative diseases are leading; offers therapies, such as the management of cerebellar tumours and approaches to congenital anomalies, which take recent progress into account; covers slow-viral diseases, paraneoplastic disorders, vascular diseases, demyelination and toxic damage, and considers treatment options wherever they exist; and discusses tremors in-depth, as well as the clinical aspects of progressive ataxias.

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This digital document is a journal article from Brain and Cognition, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We have hypothesized a distinction between the processes required to control the timing of different classes of periodic movements. In one class, salient events mark successive cycles. For these movements, we hypothesize that the temporal goal is a requisite component of the task representation, what we refer to as event-based timing. In the other class, the successive cycles are produced continuously. For these movements, alternative control strategies can optimize performance, allowing timing to be emergent. In a previous study, patients with cerebellar lesions were found to be selectively impaired on event-based timing tasks; they were unimpaired on a continuously produced task. In the present study, patients with Parkinson's disease were tested on repetitive movement tasks in which timing was either event-based or emergent. Temporal variability on either type of task did not differ between on- and off-medication sessions for the Parkinson's patients nor did patient performance differ from that of controls. These results suggest that the basal ganglia play a minimal role in movement timing and that impairments on event-based timing tasks are specific to cerebellar damage. ... Read more

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Klinik fur Neurochirurgie, Germany.Proceedings of the 44th annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Neurochirurgie, Marburg, Germany, May 2-5, 1993. Clinical research for neurosurgeons. Illustrated. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Southern Medical Journal, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1357 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Malignant pleural mesothelioma with scalp, cerebellar, and finger metastases: a rare case.(Disease/Disorder overview)
Author: Asiye Kanbay
Publication: Southern Medical Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 100Issue: 1Page: 63(3)

Article Type: Disease/Disorder overview

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This digital document is a journal article from Brain and Language, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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It is widely accepted that the cerebellar and basal ganglia control circuits contribute to the programming of movement. Converging evidence from neuroimaging, limb control, and neuropsychological studies suggests that (1) people with cerebellar disease have reduced ability to program movement sequences in advance of movement onset and (2) people with Parkinson's disease are unable to maintain a programmed response or to rapidly switch between responses. Despite a substantial supporting literature, no studies have addressed these potential areas of speech programming disruption for speakers with ataxic and hypokinetic dysarthria. Control participants and adults with dysarthria completed speech reaction time protocols designed to capture these aspects of utterance preparation. Results provided initial support for processing deficits in speakers with ataxic and hypokinetic dysarthria that are separable from motor execution impairments. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Southern Medical Journal, published by Southern Medical Association on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 3068 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cerebellar involvement in legionellosis.(Review Article)
Author: Samuel A. Shelburne
Publication: Southern Medical Journal (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Southern Medical Association
Volume: 97Issue: 1Page: 61(4)

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Targeted to patients, their families and allied health students, The Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders provides in-depth coverage of neurological diseases and disorders, including stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, Tourette Syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, cerebral palsy, vertigo, amnesia and epilepsy. Related topics include communication aids, electric personal assistive mobility devices, medications for treating neurological diseases and conditions, understanding the needs of Alzheimer patient caregivers and more. This two-volume set provides an alternative to resources that either fail to explore neurological disease in any depth and or do so at a level not appropriate for students and general readers.

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Information on many genetic disorders, and the frequent new findings on them, has been extremely difficult to come byuntil now. The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders addresses the need for current, hard-to-find facts on emerging discoveries. The two-volume Encyclopedia, presented in a single alphabetical sequence, provides clear, complete information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies, in articles that are both comprehensive and easy to understand, in language accessible to laypersons. The articles are arranged in a standardized format for quick comparison and ease of use, while non-disorder topics are covered in detail with extended entries. Students will want to consult the Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders for useful information on a range of well known disorders, including Down Syndrome, Trisomy, Hemophilia and Tourette Syndrome, and rarely seen diseases such as Meckel Syndrome, Neuraminidase Deficiency and Phenylketonuria.