Chorea ─ Causes and Management

Chorea: Causes and Management provides a comprehensive and timely update for the wide variety of neurological conditions, both inherited and acquired, which result in this common hyperkinetic movement disorder.

This book describes in detail the latest clinical and etiological information regarding chorea. Management strategies, pathophysiology, and associated medical and psychiatric problems associated with chorea are also addressed. The nineteen chapters are contributed by internationally-recognized authors working at the forefront of research in the specific disorders linked to chorea.

Chorea: Causes and Management is aimed at an audience of neurologists, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists, specialists in medical genetics, clinical and basic researchers in neurosciences, and generalist clinical physicians with an interest in movement disorders.

Federico E. Micheli

Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Program and Neurology Department of Hospital de Clinicas, Jose de San Martin, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Peter A. LeWitt

Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Program, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA and Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA