Spasticity [antikvár]

Series editors5 foreword Modern medicine witnesses changes almost every day, not least in the field of neurological sciences. With regard to understanding and diagnosing diseases, a number of technical developments have enabled neurobiologists to search for the mechanism of normal functioning and its disturbances in disease conditions, with methods which could not have been dreamed about some decades ago. On the other hand, developments in basic sciences and technology have made more rational drug design possible. All these changes have a major impact on applied neurological sciences. In addition, clinical neurology itself is a dynamic, rapidly growing area: old established clinical concepts are questioned, verified or revised and answers to a number of still unsolved questions are searched for continuously. The rapid changes and ever-growing information flow in neurological sciences represent a challenge to practising physicians. To remain up- to-date, one is obliged to keep track of a number of changes in various specialized areas. Caught up in the daily routine of clinical practice, most physicians find it difficult to make the effort required, so that it is highly desirable to gather the recent developments in a field in form of an update volume. This volume should act as an interface between basic and clinical scientists and practising physicians. The relevant information from basic sciences and their consequences for clinical practice should be communicated to clinicians as simply as possible, as well as the new trends in clinical practice. This will be the objective of this series which will consist of volumes covering major areas in clinical neurology. The majority of the volumes will be based on symposium proceedings. As a consequence, these volumes will usually differ from textbooks which provide extensive, but mostly established information on a subject. In contrast, this kind of approach should be more effective in com- municating the new developments and trends and thus should satisfy a different need.