"Diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases can prove particularly intimidating to clinicians, because many times the diagnosis cannot be critically ""confirmed"" by a simple test. New imaging modalities have advanced to the point of high resolution, morphological, metabolic and functional analysis. Computed tomography, magnetic resonance, nuclear medicine and molecular imaging have recently emerged as outstanding non-invasive techniques for the study of the neurodegenerative disorders. Imaging in Neurodegenerative Disorders covers all the imaging techniques and new exciting methods like new tracers, biomarker, metabolomic and gene-array profiling, potential for applying such techniques clinically, and offers present and future applications as applied to the neurodegenerative disorders with the most world renowned
scientists in these fields. This book is an invaluable resource for researchers, clinicians, and trainees in neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, and radiology."
Section 1: Introduction 1: Giancarlo Logroscino and Rosanna Tortelli: Epidemiology of neurodegenerative diseases 2: Luigi Barberini, Luca Saba, Claudia Fattuoni, Matteo Fraschini, and Francesco Marrosu: Metabolomics of neurodegenerative disorders 3: James D Mills and Michael Janitz: Transcriptome profiling in neurodegenerative disorders 4: Thomas Rapp, Pauline Chauvin, Nadège Costa, and Laurent Molinier: Health economic considerations in neurodegenerative disorders 5: Robert Laforce, M. Lehmann, J. Macoir, S. Poulin, M. Roy, J.-P. Soucy, L. Verret, B. L. Miller, and R. W. Bouchard: Symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases Section 2: Imaging Technique 6: Michele Anzidei: Computed Tomography 7: Aart J. Nederveen, Matthan W.A. Caan, and Marion Smits: General principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 8: Juergen Dukart and Bogdan Draganski: Nuclear medicine and radiology 9: Vivekanandan Palaninathan, Sivakumar Balasubramanian, D. Sakthi Kumar: Molecular imaging and neurodegenerative diseases 10: Christopher Kobylecki, Alexander Gerhard, and Karl Herholz: PET imaging in neurodegenerative disorders - evolving techniques and new tracers 11: Shankar Vallabhajosula, Brigitte Vallabhajosula, and Lilja Solnes: Radiopharmaceuticals for molecular imaging of neurodegenerative diseases Section 3: Neurodegeneration: Cognition 12: Charles D. Smith and Brian T. Gold: Neuroimaging of Alzheimer's disease 13: F. Garaci, N. Toschi, T. Volpi, G. Gareffa, L. Spies, S.Lista, H. Hampel: MRI-based imaging of Alzheimer's disease 14: Jennifer L. Whitwell: Frontotemporal dementia 15: Claire Henchcliffe and Thomas Tropea: Dementia with Lewy Bodies 16: Luke A Massey and Sean O'Sullivan: Corticobasal Syndrome and Corticobasal Degeneration Section 4: Nueorregeneration: Movement 17: Ana M. Franceschi, Sofia Pina, and Mauricio Castillo: Parkinson's disease: Clinical and Imaging Features 18: Dominic Paviour: Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) 19: SJA van den Bogaard and RAC Roos: Imaging in Huntington's disease 20: Keita Sakurai: Multiple system atrophy Section 5: Neurodegeneration: Strength 21: Martin R. Turner: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Section 6: Neurodegeneration: Coordination 22: Ana Solodkin, Gulin Oz, and Christopher M Gomez: Spinocerebellar Atrophies 23: Hamed Akhlaghi, Martin B. Delatycki, Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis, and Gary F. Egan: Imaging in Neurodegenerative Disorder- Friedreich Ataxia 24: Damien Galanaud: Neuroimaging in human prion diseases Section 7: Neurodegeneration: PNS\ANS 25: Erez Nossek & Tali Jonas Kimchi: Amyloidosis 26: Amogh Hedge and CC Tchoyoson Lim: Metabolic and toxin related neurodegeneration Section 8: Neurodegeneration: Myelin 27: Eytan Raz: Demyelinating diseases 28: José Berciano and Elena Gallardo: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 29: Lev Bangiyev, Alexandra Roudenko, Eytan Raz, August Dietrich, Girish M. Fatterpekar: Neurodegenerative Disorders of the Basal Ganglia Section 9: Neurodegeneration: Trauma 30: Jan Booij, Françoise J Siepel, Tirza C Buter, and Dag Aarsland: Clinical benefit of dopamine transporter imaging in movement disorders and dementia 31: Erin D. Bigler: Neurodegeneration post trauma: Brain 32: J.A. Petersen, Spyros S. Kollias: Neurodegeneration post trauma: spine 33: Duan Xiao-Hui and Jun Shen: Neurodegeneration post trauma: Peripheral nerves Section 10: Neuroimaging after therapy 34: A.L. Bartels, R. Hilker: Functional imaging of neurosurgery in Parkinson's disease 35: Tsui A, Piccini P: Neuroimaging after Cell-Based Therapy
Luca Saba received the MD from the University of Cagliari, Italy in 2002. Today he works in the Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria of Cagliari. Dr Saba research fields are focused on Multi-Detector-Row Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance, Ultrasound, Neuroradiology, and Diagnostic in Vascular Sciences. Dr. Saba has won 15 scientific and extracurricular awards during his career. He has presented more than 450 papers and posters in National and International Congress (RSNA, ESGAR, ECR, ISR, AOCR, AINR, JRS, SIRM, AINR). He wrote 18 book-chapters and he is Editor of 7 books in the field of Computed Tomography, Cardiovascular, Plastic Surgery, Gynecological Imaging and Neurodegenerative imaging. He is member of the Italian Society of Radiology (SIRM), European Society of Radiology (ESR), Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) and European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR) and serves as Reviewer of more than 30 scientific journals.
