This concise but comprehensive book will help interested readers in the health care professions
to navigate their way through the jungle of movement disorders including the potentially
complex differential diagnosis and management. The different disorders are discussed in
individual sections that explain how to examine the patient and recognize the disorder from its
basic phenomenology how to confirm a diagnosis how to distinguish a particular disorder from
related conditions and how to treat each disorder effectively. The book makes liberal use of
diagrams algorithms tables summary boxes and illustrations to facilitate solution of
clinical problems at the bedside and to solidify previously learned clinical and therapeutic
concepts. It will be of interest to a broad audience of health professionals scientists and
medical students.
