Neurology of Olfaction

Informationen zum Autor Christopher H. Hawkes is Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the Essex Neuroscience Centre, Queens Hospital, Essex and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, UK. Richard L. Doty is Director of the Smell and Taste Center, and Professor at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA. Klappentext Testing the sense of smell is often omitted or trivialized during neurological examination. This book will address this shortcoming by emphasizing the significance of this important sensory modality. Written by experts in the field, this book provides information useful to physicians for assessing and managing chemosensory disorders and summarizes the current scientific knowledge of human olfaction.Provides information useful to physicians for assessing and managing chemosensory disorders and summarizes the current scientific knowledge of human olfaction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Thomas R. Swift; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Anatomy and physiology; 2. Clinical evaluation; 3. Disorders of olfaction; 4. Neurodegenerative diseases that affect olfaction; 5. Investigation, treatment and general management of olfactory disease; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Richard L Doty, Richard L. Doty, Richard L. (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Doty, Christopher Doty Hawkes, Christopher H Hawkes, Christopher H. Hawkes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2009
• EAN: 9780521682169
• ISBN: 978-0-521-68216-9
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge Medicine (Paperback)
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine