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The physiology of peripheral nerve disease
Book Reviews
ARBEIT IJND GESUNDHEIT: DIE PROGNOSE UND REHABILITATION DES HIRN-TRAUMAS by c. FAUST and E.MULLER. 18. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Hirntraumatologie und klinische Himpathologie, 146 p., 34 figs., and 35 tables, DM 79,OO. ISBN 3 13 1094 01X. 1981
SCHADEL1979.
This is a review of the papers presented on the 18th meeting of the German Society of Traumatology and Pathology of the brain. Meetings of this nature tend to support optimism on the progress made in the field under study. The present report is no exception. The main issues are early diagnostic and therapeutic measures in brain injury, evaluation of residual deficit and outlook of successful rehabilitation. Most contributions give detailed information on the author’s own experience much of which is most interesting and useful material to readers interested in the long-term prognosis of brain injury. The contributions concerning advanced care of brain injured patients with pressure monitoring and various drugs-treatment regimes fail to convince the reader that much progress has been made during the last few years and we are left with the firm conviction that our efforts are most effectively directed to the prevention of accidents. A. R. Win&en
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PERIPHERAL NERVE DISEASE by A. J.SUMMER. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, London and Toronto, 503 p., figs. and tables. E20,OO. ISBN 0 7216 8639 7.
1980.
The various chapters of this book (14 in all) are devoted to a study of the anatomy and physiology of the neuromuscular complex as a whole (Excitation and conduction in nerve; Motor units) and to its different levels (Axoplasmic transport, Neuromuscular transmission, Trophic effect of nerve on muscle). Other chapters are devoted more precisely to the pathologic changes in nerve (Physiological consequences of demyelination; Acute and chronic compression; Axonal polyneuropathies; Regeneration of peripheral nerve); with constant reference being made to fundamental neuro-physiology and experimentation on animals and to the points of comparison ir provides for the understanding of human pathology, and a constant effort to correlate morphological appearances with their associated electrophysiological features. Above all this book is offered for the education and training of electromyographers who, in order to assume fully their role in neuromuscular pathology, must be in command of an anatomophyysiological background associated with a sount clinical knowledge (and we can regret that these are merely outlined). This review of present day-knowledge of the normal physiology and of the pathology of nerve and muscle will make this book valuable to all clinicians. M. Bonduelle
ARBEIT IJND GESUNDHEIT: DIE PROGNOSE UND REHABILITATION DES HIRN-TRAUMAS by c. FAUST and E.MULLER. 18. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Hirntraumatologie und klinische Himpathologie, 146 p., 34 figs., and 35 tables, DM 79,OO. ISBN 3 13 1094 01X. 1981
SCHADEL1979.
This is a review of the papers presented on the 18th meeting of the German Society of Traumatology and Pathology of the brain. Meetings of this nature tend to support optimism on the progress made in the field under study. The present report is no exception. The main issues are early diagnostic and therapeutic measures in brain injury, evaluation of residual deficit and outlook of successful rehabilitation. Most contributions give detailed information on the author’s own experience much of which is most interesting and useful material to readers interested in the long-term prognosis of brain injury. The contributions concerning advanced care of brain injured patients with pressure monitoring and various drugs-treatment regimes fail to convince the reader that much progress has been made during the last few years and we are left with the firm conviction that our efforts are most effectively directed to the prevention of accidents. A. R. Win&en
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PERIPHERAL NERVE DISEASE by A. J.SUMMER. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, London and Toronto, 503 p., figs. and tables. E20,OO. ISBN 0 7216 8639 7.
1980.
The various chapters of this book (14 in all) are devoted to a study of the anatomy and physiology of the neuromuscular complex as a whole (Excitation and conduction in nerve; Motor units) and to its different levels (Axoplasmic transport, Neuromuscular transmission, Trophic effect of nerve on muscle). Other chapters are devoted more precisely to the pathologic changes in nerve (Physiological consequences of demyelination; Acute and chronic compression; Axonal polyneuropathies; Regeneration of peripheral nerve); with constant reference being made to fundamental neuro-physiology and experimentation on animals and to the points of comparison ir provides for the understanding of human pathology, and a constant effort to correlate morphological appearances with their associated electrophysiological features. Above all this book is offered for the education and training of electromyographers who, in order to assume fully their role in neuromuscular pathology, must be in command of an anatomophyysiological background associated with a sount clinical knowledge (and we can regret that these are merely outlined). This review of present day-knowledge of the normal physiology and of the pathology of nerve and muscle will make this book valuable to all clinicians. M. Bonduelle