Biochemical Aspects of Nervous Diseases

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Metabolic Aspects of Some Diseases of Peripheral Nerves

   • J. Wilson, R. H. S. Thompson

   Pages 1-40

3. Biochemistry of Muscle Diseases

   • R. J. T. Pennington

   Pages 41-67

4. The Biochemistry of Demyelination and Demyelinating Diseases

   • B. Gerstl

   Pages 69-110

5. The Biochemistry of Copper in Man and Its Role in the Pathogenesis of Wilson’s Disease (Hepatolenticular Degeneration)

   • J. M. Walshe

   Pages 111-150

6. Brain Amine Metabolism in Some Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

   • G. Curzon

   Pages 151-212

7. Biochemical Neurological Disease in Children

   • L. I. Woolf

   Pages 213-253

8. Back Matter

   Pages 255-265

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Within recent years basic knowledge concerning the chemistry, and the metabolic processes taking place in the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves and muscles has increased in a remarkable manner. As a consequence some very important books have been published both in America and in Europe in which some, at least, of this information has become available in an easily readable form to an ever increasing group of laboratory and scientific workers. The application of such studies in a variety of neurological diseases can now be made, thus making possible an explanation of many of the clinical and pathological peculiarities that have been known for decades. Although a few small manuals have already been published, combining both biochemical and clinical aspects of such disorders and these have been studied by neurologists and chemical pathologists throughout the world, yet a volume devoted exclusively to the biochemistry of neurological diseases has not yet been readily available. The present volume is an attempt to remedy this omission in relation to just a few of the conditions. Individual writers of each of the six chapters have been chosen who are intimately concerned both with biochemistry and with its application to disease in man. Each author has been responsible for the accuracy of his chapter together with appropriate references from the literature, but the Editor does not necessarily concur with all the opinions expressed by the authors.

• biochemistry
• brain
• muscle
• myelin
• spinal cord

• The Institute of Neurology, The National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases, London, W.C.1, UK

  J. N. Cumings

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