Multiple Sclerosis: eBooks & Books

Documents the effects of multiple sclerosis on cognition, information processing speed, learning and memory, executive function, personality, mood, and behavior. Touches on the common cognitive challenges that occur with MS, such as slowed information processing speed, impaired memory, and executive function deficits; psychiatric disorders that accompany MS, such as depression and psychosis; and current neuropsychological, brain MRI, and treatment data applicable to the psychiatric and cognitive disorders. Enhanced both by the latest science and by eloquent case histories that illustrate each cognitive and emotional disorder. Also provides recommendations for evidence-based therapeutic interventions. Written in an immediate, accessible way, this book has a crossover appeal, making it of interest not only to neurologists, psychiatrists, neuropsychiatrists, neuropsychologists, psychologists, occupational therapists, and nurses but also to people with MS and their caregivers, family, and friends.

Discusses perspectives, clinical aspects and cognitive challenges of multiple sclerosis.

Includes the most current diagnostic tools and strategies for managing the disease process in both physical and psychosocial areas, with an emphasis on helping multiple sclerosis patients cope with the disease through the teaching and implementing of self-care strategies.

Provides a breakthrough treatment protocol that can dramatically restore health to those with multiple sclerosis.

Offers proven, effective treatments for specific presentations and symptoms of multiple sclerosis along with a pathophysiological explanation of why they work.

Examines the labyrinth of multiple sclerosis, approaching the disease from the viewpoint of epidemiology, autoimmune reactions, symptomatology, mental and physical decline, diagnostic procedures, prognosis, and treatment.