Part of the Oxford Textbooks in Clinical Neurology (OTCN) series, this volume covers the basic science and clinical concepts underlying the movement disorders, as well as the diagnosis and treatment of individual hypokinetic and hyperkinetic movement disorders.

David Burn is Professor of Movement Disorder Neurology at the Clinical Ageing Research Unit, Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

1 Gerald Stern: Overview and historical perspective; 2 David J. Burn: Approach to history taking and examination of the movement disorder patient; 3 Glenda M. Halliday, Rachel Tan and Heidi Cartwright: Neuroanatomy for the movement disorder specialist; 4 Thomas Wichmann: Functional aspects of the basal ganglia; 5 Carla Cordivari: Electrophysiological approaches to the movement disorder patient; 6 David J. Brooks: Movement disorders: structural and functional imaging; 7 Jose Bras and John Hardy: Genetic techniques, impact, and diagnostic issues in movement disorders; 8 Sabine Spielberger and Werner Poewe: Overview of parkinsonism and approach to differential diagnosis; 9 Anthony H. V. Schapira and David Gallagher: PD: Premotor features, diagnosis, and early management; 10 Susan H. Fox, Binit Shah, Richard Walsh and Anthony Lang: PD: Advanced disease, motor complications, and management; 11 Eduardo Tolosa, C. Gaig and L. Acevedo: Non-motor symptom management in Parkinson's disease; 12 Susanne A. Schneider and Christine Klein: The many faces of parkinsonism - a review of the Parkinson look-alike syndromes; 13 Gregor K. Wenning and Florian Krismer: Multiple system atrophy (MSA); 14 David R. Williams: Progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration; 15 A.W. Lemstra, H. Seelaar and J.C. van Swieten: Primary dementia syndromes and parkinsonism; 16 Steffen Paschen and Gunther Deuschl: Essential tremor and other tremors; 17 Kailash P. Bhatia, M. Stamelou and S. Bressman: Dystonia: an overview; 18 Antonio A. Elia and Alberto Albanese: Primary dystonia; 19 Julie Phukan and Thomas Warner: Other dystonias; 20 Roger A. Barker and Josef Priller: Huntington's disease; 21 Edward Wild and Sarah Tabrizi: Huntington's disease look-alikes; 22 Francisco Cardoso: Non-degenerative choreas; 23 Oliver Bandmann: Wilson's disease; 24 Erika F. Augustine and Jonathan W. Mink: Tic disorders and stereotypies; 25 Marina A. J. Tijssen: Myoclonus; 26 Melissa J. Armstrong and William Weiner: Paroxysmal movement disorders; 27 George Koutsis and Nicholas W. Wood: Hereditary and acquired cerebellar ataxias; 28 Shyamal H. Mehta, John C. Morgan and Kapil D. Sethi: Drug-induced movement disorders; 29 Leslie J. Cloud and Joseph Jankovic: Systemic disease and movement disorders; 30 Paul J. Reading: Sleep-related movement disorders; 31 Isabel Parees and Mark J. Edwards: Psychogenic movement disorders