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Neglected Tropical Diseases and Conditions of the Nervous System

A number of diseases and conditions that occur primarily in remote rural or poor urban areas of low-income countries have traditionally been neglected by the neuroscience research community. These diseases and conditions affect the nervous system directly (sometimes with lethal consequences) and/or...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Bentivoglio, Marina (Editor ), Cavalheiro, Esper A. (Editor ), Kristensson, Krister (Editor ), Patel, Nilesh B. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • Travel, migration and neglected tropical diseases
  • Stigma in neurological diseases at the Tropics
  • Nematode infections: Neurological involvement and neurobiology
  • Amoebiasis: Neurological involvement and neurobiology
  • Neuroschistosomiasis
  • Neurocysticercosis
  • Neurocysticercosis: Neurology and neurobiology
  • Onchocerciasis: Neurological involvement
  • Human African trypanosomiasis: Neurobiology
  • Chagas' disease: Neurology and neurobiology
  • Neurodegeneration in leprosy: Insights from model systems and patients
  • Rabies: Neurology
  • Rabies: Neurobiology
  • Japanese encephalitis and other arbovirus infections: Neurology and neurobiology
  • Khat addiction: Neurology
  • Khat addiction: Neurobiology
  • Konzo: neurology of a permanent and non-progressive motor neuron
  • Food preservation, snake venoms and stroke in the Tropics
  • Infectious causes of epilepsy?
  • Cognitive impairment and behavioural disturbances following malaria or HIV infection in childhood.