Expert Answer Parkinson's Disease

Author: Professor Chen Shengdi, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: This book is a popular science reader on Parkinson's disease, edited by Professor Chen Shengdi, a distinguished middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions to the state, a renowned Parkinson's disease expert in China, and a neurologist at Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The book adopts language that is both easy to understand and rigorously accurate, complemented by vivid illustrations, to provide a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the basic knowledge, clinical diagnosis and prevention, conventional drug treatment, surgical treatment, home rehabilitation treatment, and the latest research progress in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. The content covered not only includes hot topics such as deep brain stimulation (DBS, or "brain pacemaker") treatment and gene stem cell therapy, but also addresses difficult issues such as how to correctly evaluate various types of treatments, as well as practical questions close to patients' daily lives, such as how to perform rehabilitation exercises at home. Therefore, this book is an ideal popular science reader for patients with Parkinson's disease and their families, and also holds certain reference value for neurologists, geriatricians, neurosurgeons, and general practitioners.