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The Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (Batten Disease): 78 2nd Edition
Author(s): Sara Mole (Editor), Ruth Williams (Editor), Hans Goebel (Editor)
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publication Date: 10 Mar. 2011
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 476 pages
- ISBN-10: 019959001X
- ISBN-13: 9780199590018
Book Description
Fully updated and revised, this second edition continues to be the definitive volume on this devastating group of disorders. Written by an international collection of authorities in the field, it provides invaluable advice on their diagnosis, patient care, and new treatments that are available.
This new edition of the definitive reference text on the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses will prove useful for clinicians, family physicians, research scientists, diagnostic laboratories, families affected by the disease as well as by workers in industry planning translational research.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Although this is a rare syndrome with a clear genetic basis, this book captures its complexity on so many levels (genetic, biological, medical, psychosocial) in truly understanding a “simple” diagnosis of epilepsy. The editors and authors have performed a laudable feat in organizing and making accessible information on this very complicated topic, particularly given the continued flow of new scientific information.” — Doody’s
About the Author
Dr Ruth Williams studied medicine at The University of Nottingham, graduating in 1985. She trained in Paediatrics and in Paediatric Neurology before taking up her current post as a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in 2003. As part of her training she undertook a period of research into the genetic basis of the NCLs and obtained her doctorate in 1996. Her special interests include the diagnosis and management of childhood epilepsies and the NCLs.
Prof. Hans H. Goebel is a neuropathologist who received his specialty education in neuropathology at New York University and in the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis/USA. There he applied the technique of electron microscopy to innumerable biopsied and autopsied human tissues affected by neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) and other lysosomal and neurodegenerative diseases. He has written numerous articles and book chapters on the neuropathology and especially the ultrastructure of the NCLs. In 1999 he edited a monograph on NCL which grew out of a Concerted Action of the European Union concerning the NCL.
