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Gender differences in diseases of the nervous system / Joan C. Amatniek, Lauren C. Frey, and W. Allen Hauser -- Sex differences in regional brain structure and function / Susan M. Resnick -- Women's lives and their experiences with health care / Aileen MacLaren and Nancy Fugate Woods -- Drug treatments and trials in women / Stephen D. Silberstein -- Reproductive and metabolic disorders with AED use / Martha Morrell -- Effect of ovarian hormones on the nervous system / Pavel Klein and Donald L. Schomer -- Genetic neurologic disorders in females / Orest Hurko -- Women, law, and neurologic disease / H. Richard Beresford -- Neurologic disease in girls / S. Lane Rutledge and Holly Mussell -- Menstruation and pregnancy: interactions with neurologic disease / James O. Donaldson III -- Obstetric issues in women with neurologic diseases / Errol R. Norwitz and John T. Repke -- The menopausal transition: changing physiology, symptoms, and hormone therapy / Nancy Fugate Woods -- Frailty in elderly women / E. Jeffrey Metter -- Migraine / Ramesh Khurana -- Seizures and epilepsy in women / Martha Morrell -- Eclampsia / Peter W. Kaplan -- Cerebrovascular disease in women / Rafael S. Llinas and Carla J. Weisman -- Multiple sclerosis / P. K. Coyle and Mustafa Hammad -- Optic neuritis / Neil R. Miller -- Peripheral nerve disease in women / Alan R. Moore, E. Wayne Massey, and Janice M. Massey -- Muscle disease in women / James M. Gilchrist -- Neurologic presentations of autoimmune disorders in women / Michelle Petri -- Gender differences in movement disorders / Yvette M. Bordelon and Stanley Fahn -- Chorea gravidarum / Gretchen L. Birbeck -- Giant cell arteritis / David B. Hellmann -- The neurologic basis of common pelvic floor disorders / Linda Brubaker and J. Thomas Benson -- Infections of the nervous system in women / David N. Irani -- Neuro-oncological diseases in women / Alessandro Olivi and John J. Laterra -- Pseudomotor cerebri / Neil R. Miller -- Alzheimer disease in women / Julene K. Johnson and Kristine Yaffe -- Psychiatric disorders in women / Angela S. Guarda and Karen L. Swartz -- Nonepileptic, psychogenic, and hysterical seizures / Allan Krumholz and Tricia Ting. |
