The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurologic and Psychiatric Disease

The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurologic and Psychiatric Disease
ISBN-10
0750673605
ISBN-13
9780750673600
Category
Medical
Pages
898
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Authors
Eric J. Nestler, Salvatore DiMauro, Stanley B. Prusiner

Description

Inside the third edition of this reference, the reader will find thorough and authoritative discussions of all of these developments and their implications for clinical practice. It includes a major new section on Psychiatric Diseases; descriptions of the molecular and genetic basis of the spongiform encephalopathies as well as the expression of the prion gene under physiologic and pathologic conditions; additional coverage examines the human genome project and neurologic disease; and coverage on alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

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