Neuro-Otology - A Volume in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Furman is a Professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology, Neurology, Bioengineering, and Physical Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the division of balance disorders at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His education includes an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a residency in neurology at UCLA, and a fellowship in non-surgical otology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Furman’s area of expertise is vestibular function and balance disorders. Dr. Furman is a board certified neurologist, a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and a member of the American Neurological Association. Dr. Furman’s clinical activities include the evaluation of patients with dizziness and disequilibrium and consultation neurology. Dr. Furman’s research interests include balance in older persons, development of new tests of semicircular canal function, and functional imaging in balance disorders. Dr. Furman is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vestibular Research. Thomas Lempert is Professor of Neurology at Charité University Hospital and Head of Neurology at Schlosspark-Klinik in Berlin, Germany. He spent most of his professional life at Charité University Hospital as a general neurologist and neuro-otologist. He learnt to treat dizzy patients and made his first steps in vestibular research at the University Hospital in Munich (Prof. Thomas Brandt) and later at the MRC Movement and Balance Unit in London (Prof. Adolfo Bronstein and Prof. Michael Gresty). He heads the Vestibular Migraine Group of the Classification Committee of the International Bárány Society.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph (EDT)/ Lempert Furman, Joseph M. Furman, Joseph M. Lempert Furman
• Assisted by: Joseph Furman (Editor), Joseph M. Furman (Editor), Thomas Lempert (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780444634375
• ISBN: 978-0-444-63437-5
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Handbook of Clinical Neurology; Handbook of Clinical Neurology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Neurology, MEDICAL / Audiology & Speech Pathology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Audiology & otology, Audiology and otology