Neurology Volume 12: Neurological Toxic and Metabolic Diseases

Author: He Fengsheng
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: This book is one of the volumes in the large, multi-volume advanced reference work Neurology, meticulously planned and published by the People's Military Medical Press. It is edited by the renowned Chinese occupational hygiene expert Academician He Fengsheng and neurology expert Professor Xue Qingmi. The book is divided into two parts. The first part covers neurotoxic diseases of the nervous system, systematically introducing the fundamentals of neurotoxicology, the clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of toxic neurological diseases. It provides detailed discussions on the etiology, toxicokinetics, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of poisoning caused by metals, metalloids, organic solvents, pesticides, non-pesticidal organophosphorus compounds, natural biological toxins, and drugs, emphasizing the manifestations and characteristics of the nervous system. The second part discusses neurometabolic diseases, including sphingolipidoses, mucopolysaccharidoses, mucolipidoses, and oligosaccharidoses, peroxisomal diseases, lysosomal diseases, disorders of lipoprotein, proteolipid, and glycoprotein metabolism, amino acid metabolism disorders, and nucleic acid metabolism disorders, among others. This book serves as a reference for neurology, neurosurgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, occupational medicine, and genetic medicine physicians, as well as researchers in occupational and environmental medicine, metabolic diseases, pathophysiology, and biochemistry. It is also suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in medical schools for study purposes.