Neurogenetics: A Guide for Clinicians Book

Preface; 1. The human genome project – what it really means and where next? Sonia Gandhi and Nicholas Wood; 2. Genetic counselling and genetic testing for neurogenetic disorders David Craufurd and Peter S. Harper; 3. Alzheimer's disease and related dementias John Hardy; 4. The epilepsies Mark Gardiner; 5. The ataxias S. H. Subramony; 6. Huntington's disease Sarah J. Tabrizi and Edward J. Wild; 7. Parkinsonism Vincenzo Bonifati; 8. Prion diseases Simon Mead and John Collinge; 9. Channelopathies Michael G. Hanna and Dimitri M. Kullmann; 10. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other disorders of the lower motor neuron Christopher E. Shaw, Jameen Sreedharan, Caroline A. Vance and Ammar Al-Chalabi; 11. The muscular dystrophies Kate Bushby and Una Sheerin; 12. Charcot-Marie-Tooth diseases Odile Dubourg, Alexis Brice and Eric LeGuern; 13. Mitochondrial disorders Robert McFarland, Robert Taylor, Andrew Schaefer and Doug Turnbull; 14. The neurofibromatoses and related disorders Rosalie E. Ferner; 15. The future of neurogenetics Thomas D. Bird; Index.