Sexual and Reproductive Neurorehabilitation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Male Anatomy and Physiology

   • Mindy Aisen, Alex Kirschenbaum

   Pages 1-12

3. Management of Neurologic Diseases in Pregnancy, Delivery, and the Postpartum Period

   • Charles E. Argoff

   Pages 13-45

4. Issues of Female Physiology and Reproductive Responses in the Neurorehabilitation Setting

   • Frances Marks, Mary Sano

   Pages 47-64

5. The Role of the Menstrual Cycle in Chronic Disorders of the Nervous System

   • Douglas R. Jeffery

   Pages 65-72

6. Principles of Sexuality Counseling

   • Audrey Sorgen Sanders, Alan D. Blau

   Pages 73-92

7. Diseases of Peripheral Nerves

   • Mary K. McDonald, Alexander W. Dromerick

   Pages 93-111

8. Extrapyramidal Disorders

   • Alan David

   Pages 113-118

9. Sexuality and the Adolescent with Developmental Disabilities

   • A. Maurine Packard

   Pages 119-132

10. Neuromuscular Disease and Sexuality in Adolescents

    • Jennifer Michaels, Vicki Barnett

    Pages 133-144

11. Sexual Dysfunction Following Stroke

    • David C. Good

    Pages 145-167

12. Sexual Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis

    • Lee Shaughnessy, Mary Schuchman, Mohamed Ghumra, Patricia Daily, Jack S. Burks

    Pages 169-195

13. Sexual Rehabilitation Issues in Spinal Cord Injury

    • Mindy Aisen

    Pages 197-206

14. Traumatic Brain Injury

    • Andrew Hornstein, Glenn Seliger

    Pages 207-218

15. The Geriatric Population

    • Laurie Barclay

    Pages 219-232

16. Sexually Transmitted Diseases

    • Lois Van Fleet

    Pages 233-237

17. Back Matter

    Pages 239-244

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This well-written text thoroughly addresses two quality of life issues in patients with a variety of neurological disorders: sexual and reproductive function. The de vasta stating effects of a variety of neurological diseases are well known to both the lay and medical communitIes, and are treated in numerous texts. However, as we continue to experience therapeutic breakthroughs in the tields of neurology and rehabilitation medicine, physicians and patients must become more aware of the issues discussed in this text. It is particularly important, as emphasized throughout the chapters, that the physician or therapist initiate conversations with the patients concerning both the possibility of parenting a child, as well as the ability of the patient to enhance his/her sexual functioning. Commonly in the patient who is otherwise perfectly normal, there is a reluctance to discuss these topics and couples often feel embarrassed to initiate a conversation with their physi­ cians. This reluctance to initiate a discussion is even more apparent in patients with a variety of neurological disorders, in which there are overriding fears concerning both function and survival, as well as deep concerns about their own attractiveness, and their sexual and repro­ ductive ability.

• Nervous System
• Neurorehabilitation
• brain
• brain injury
• neurology
• physiology
• rehabilitation
• spinal cord
• trauma
• traumatic brain injury

• Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, White Plains, USA

  Mindy Aisen

• Cornell University Medical College, New York, USA

  Mindy Aisen

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