
Neurogenetics, Part I
Description
Key Features
- Presents a comprehensive coverage of neurogenetics
- Details the latest science and impact on our understanding of neurological psychiatric disorders
- Provides a focused reference for clinical practitioners and the neuroscience/neurogenetics research community
Readership
Neuroscience researchers, clinical neurologists, clinical psychologists, and genetics researchers
Table of Contents
Section I. Basic Genetic Concepts
1. Clinical approach to the patient with neurogenetic disease
Thomas Bird
2. Genetic and genomic testing for neurological disease in clinical practice
Brent L. Fogel and Daniel Geschwind
3. Ethical issues in neurogenetics
Wendy R. Uhlmann
4. Evolving views of human genetic variation and its relationship to neurologic and psychiatric disease
Daniel Geschwind
5. Epigenetic mechanisms underlying nervous system diseases
Mark F. Mehler and Irfan Qureshi
6. Pharmacogenetics
Jeffrey R. Bishop
7. Bioinformatics and genomic databases
Giovanni Coppola and Jason Chen
8. Towards precision medicine
Pedro Gonzalez-AlegreSection II. Recurring Biological Themes in Neurogenetics
9. Repeat expansion diseases
Henry Lauris Paulson
10. Mitochondrial diseases
Carolyn Sue
11. The CAG – polyglutamine repeat diseases: A clinical, molecular, genetic and pathophysiological nosology
Albert R. La SpadaSection III. Movement Disorders
12. Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias
Vikram Shakkottai
13. Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias
Brent L. Fogel
14. Genetics of Parkinson disease
Aloysius Domingo and Christine Klein
15. Essential Tremor
Elan Louis and Lorraine Clark
16. Inherited dystonias: Clinical features and molecular pathways
Corinne Elise Weisheit, Samuel S. Pappas and William Dauer
17. Huntington’s Disease
Sarah Tabrizi, Rhia Ghosh and Amanda Dolphin
18. Wilson Disease and related copper disorders
Matthew Lorincz
19. Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA)
Susan Judith Hayflick and Penny Hogarth
20. Primary familial brain calcifications
Maria-Jesus SobridoSection IV. Neurodevelopmental Disorders
21. Genetics of autism spectrum disorder
Daniel Geschwind
22. The emerging genetic landscape of cerebral palsy
Clare Louise van Eyk, Mark Corbett and Alastair MacLennan
23. Tourette disorder and other tic disorders
Thomas Fernandez, Matthew William State and Christopher Pittenger
24. Sex chromosome aneuploidies
David Skuse, Frida Printzlau and Jeanne Wolstencroft
25. Fragile X syndrome and fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome
Deborah Ann Hall
Product details
- No. of pages: 436
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: January 8, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780444632357
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780444632333
About the Series Volume Editors
Daniel H. Geschwind

Affiliations and Expertise
Henry L. Paulson
