Brain degeneration and dementia in sub-Saharan Africa. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Seggane Musisi, Stanley Jacobson, editors.
• Editors: Musisi, Seggane; Jacobson, Stanley, 1937-
• Contents: Forward -- Preface -- The Penn ADCC: Integrating Neurodegenerative Disease Research Across Disciplines, Conditions, and Population Groups -- Anatomy of Normal and Degenerative Changes in the Brain -- A 24-Hour Walk Through Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda: What Kind of In-patients Do You See? -- HIV-Associated Cognitive Impairment in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Vitamin Deficiencies and Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Environmental Toxins as Causes of Brain Degeneration in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Childhood Threats to Adult Cognition in Sub-saharan Africa: Malaria, Anemia, Stunting, Enteric Enteropathy, and the Microbiome of Malnutrition -- Strokes as Seein in Mulago Hospital, Uganda -- Challenges of Diagnosis and Treatment of Epilepsy at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda -- Psychiatric Aspects of HIV infection in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Children with Neurodegenerative Development Disorders in Uganda -- Cognitive Outcome of Malaria and HIV Infection in Children in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Acquired Brain Injury in Children in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Review of Reasons for Patients to Receive A CT of the Head and Neck Region in Uganda in 2011-2012 -- CT Findings in the Brain of Adult Patients with HIV/AIDS -- Neuropsychological Cases in a Low-Income National Referral Hospital -- A Case of Alzheimer's Dementia in Uganda -- A Case Report of Mania and Glioma -- Secondary Mania of HIV/AIDS -- Case Presentation of Epilepsy Secondary to Cerebral Malaria -- Caring for the Elderly with Dementia in Africa.
• Publisher Details: New York : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, color illustrations
• Subjects: 616.8; Medicine; Brain -- Degeneration -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Dementia -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain); HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Alzheimer's & Dementia; Brain -- Degeneration; Dementia; Dementia -- Africa South of the Sahara; Medical -- Public Health; Medical -- Neurology; Public health & preventive medicine; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Neurosciences; Neurology; Medical -- Neuroscience; Neurosciences; Africa, Sub-Saharan; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781493924561; 1493924567; 1493924559; 9781493924554
• Related ISBNs: 9781493924554
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 20, 2015).
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