Parkinson's Disease: Books & eBooks

The author, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2016, offers a glimpse into life with the disease and presents an insightful approach to counseling someone living with a chronic illness. He delves into the importance of accepting a chronic illness and how this can create an opportunity for personal transformation, newfound meaning, and rejuvenated purpose. An informative, realistic, humorous, and hopeful guide for clinicians who give counsel, educators who teach counseling, people supporting someone else, and anyone living with a chronic illness.

Clinician-led content on Parkinson's disease provides perspectives of different members of the interdisciplinary team, including medics, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and psychologists. Covers all aspects of care, from pharmacological management to non-drug interventions that are helpful for Parkinson's symptoms

Part of the Oxford American Neurology Library, a clinically-focused text for healthcare professionals involved in the everyday management of Parkinson's disease patients.

An easy-to-understand, straightforward, and sometimes humorous guide to Parkinson's disease that offers proven techniques for coping with daily issues, finding the right doctors, and providing care as the disease progresses. Contains updates on the latest in alternative treatments, dementia, and young onset Parkinson's.

Experts on the treatment of dementia associated with Parkinson's Disease describe in detail the current status of knowledge in their respective area of expertise.

Aims to help Parkinson's patients better understand their role in their treatment so that they may continue to lead happy and hopeful lives. Topics covered include nutrition and exercise, alternative and complementary therapies, medication and treatment, and what caregivers can do to help. Written by an international expert on Parkinson's who is a trained nurse and primary caregiver for her mother, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991.

Examines a cellular tool for the elimination of proteins that accumulate in neurodegenerative disorders, evidence on impairment of social cognition in Parkinson's patients, the impact of finding the molecular cause of Parkinson's, and how Parkinson's alters the functional role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in learning and memory.