
Neuropathology
Description
Key Features
- Provides a resource for the non-pathologist, aiding primary clinicians and researchers in the interpretation of patient symptoms and research findings
- Includes standard neuropathology, but extends to clinicopathology, imaging and molecular pathology/genetics
- Presents an interdisciplinary approach that can be applied in everyday clinic and research efforts
Readership
Table of Contents
Section 1 Pathology of the Central Nervous System
Evaluation of Tissue Reactions: Sampling and Staining
1. Techniques in neuropathology
2. Banking brain tissue for researchReactions of the CNS to Disease
3. Cellular reactions of the central nervous system
4. Raised intracranial pressure and brain edema
5. Cerebrospinal fluid circulation and hydrocephalusOverview of Fetal Neuropathology
6. Developmental and perinatal brain diseasesCerebrovascular Disorders
7. Neuropathology of cerebrovascular diseasesHead Injury
8. NeurotraumaMetabolic and Nutritional Disorders
9. Neurometabolic and neurodegenerative diseases in children
10. Mitochondrial diseases
11. Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation
12. Nutritional and systemic metabolic disorders
13. Alcohol-related diseases
14. Neurotoxicology and drug-related disorders
Neuropathology of Epilepsy
15. Neuropathology of epilepsyInfections
16. Acute and chronic bacterial infections and sarcoidosis
17. Acute and chronic viral infections
18. Parasitic and fungal infectionsImmune-Mediated Disorders
19. Inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system
20. Immune-mediated disorders
Neurodegenerative Diseases
21. Concepts and classification of neurodegenerative diseases
22. Genetics of neurodegenerative diseases: an overview
23. Alzheimer disease
24. Alpha-synucleinopathies
25. Tauopathies
26. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and non-tau frontotemporal lobar degeneration
27. Trinucleotide repeat disorders
28. Prion diseasesDiseases of the Spinal Cord
29. Spinal cordSection 2 Pathology of Nerves and Muscle
Diseases of the Skeletal Muscle
30. Diseases of the skeletal muscleDiseases of the Peripheral Nerves
31. Diseases of the peripheral nervesSection 3 Pathology of Tumors of the Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System
32. Clinical neuropathology of brain tumors
33. Bioimaging and surgery of brain tumors
34. Brain tumors - other treatment modalitiesSection 4 Miscellaneous Topics
35. Overview of cerebrospinal fluid cytology
36. Comorbodities and neuropathology
37. Overview of neuroradiology
Product details
- No. of pages: 640
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2017
- Published: October 24, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128026151
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128023952
About the Serial Volume Editors
Gabor Kovacs

Affiliations and Expertise
Irina Alafuzoff
