Publisher's Synopsis
This volume provides an up-to-date review of current methods of treating Parkingson's disease - and the scientific basis on which these methods are based.;Parkinson's disease remains at the cutting edge of clinical neuroscience. During the 1960s the discovery of the first effective neurotransmitter replacement was made. In the 1980s there has been the battle to cope with the long-term complications of levodopa treatment. Now we are entering a decade in which attention is shifting to the cause of Parkinson's disease, preventative as well as symptomatic treatment, and grafting to repair the damaged brain.;In this book, specialists in the field from Europe and North America review the diagnosis, aetiology and treatment of the disease and discuss the latest advances in research.
