Neurological Consequences of Nutritional Disorders

U. K. Misra · J. Kalita

giu 2021 · CRC Press

Informazioni su questo ebook

This book focuses on the impact of nutritional disorders on the nervous system. Nutritional disorders are caused due to poverty, famine, infestations, ignorance in the developing world and due to food faddism, isolation, depression, addictions, and comorbidities in the developed countries. This book has chapters on various disorders covering basic knowledge, their clinical manifestations, basis and etiology, laboratory diagnosis, method of treatment and prognosis. It provides the guidelines to students and clinicians for dealing with such disorders which are easily preventable and amenable to treatment whose early diagnosis and management can avert morbidity and mortality.

Key Features

• Deals with the unexplored topic of the neurological impact of nutritional disorders
• Will be essential for neurologists, general physicians, and pediatricians
• Includes key illustrated examples from authors' clinical practice.

Informazioni sull'autore

Dr U K Misra was the founder Head of Department of Neurology at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Raebareli Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India (1987 -2018) and presently is Director and Head of Neuroscience at Apollo Medics Super Specialty Hospital, Lucknow.

Dr J Kalita is presently working as Professor, Department of Neurology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.