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McAlpine's Multiple Sclerosis

Alastair Compston, Ian R. McDonald, John Noseworthy, Hans Lassmann, David H. Miller, Kenneth J. Smith, Hartmut Wekerle, Christian Confavreux

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Since 1955, this landmark masterwork has been revered for its authoritative presentation of the entire state of scientific and clinical knowledge about multiple sclerosis. The state-of-the-art 4th Edition presents the most recent information on the genetics and epidemiology, clinical neurology, pathogenesis, and management of this common neurological disease. Amply illustrated and referenced and beautifully written, McAlpine's Multiple Sclerosis has been described as "A standard reference for multiple sclerosis researchers, embryonic 'MS-ologists' and hard-pressed clinical neurologists alike" (Brain, review of the last edition).

• Reviews the earliest clinical and pathological descriptions of multiple sclerosis.
• Offers a very strong section on pathogenesis.
• Includes more than 550 high-quality illustrations clarifying important scientific and clinical concepts.
• Uses a remarkably clear presentation to make complicated data as easy as possible to understand.

• Presents the most recent information on genetics and epidemiology, with an emphasis on clinical relevance.
• Covers all of the latest approaches to diagnosis and management.
• Offers new chapters on treatment of the acute relapse, treatment of symptoms, and disease-modifying treatments.
• Includes contributions from four new world-renowned authors to reflect more international perspectives.
• Features a new, more user-friendly page design for enhanced ease of reference.

A Sundog Moment

Sharon Baldacci

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Elizabeth has been married to Michael Whittaker for 20 wonderful years when she receives the shocking diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Life as they knew it is over. Elizabeth has always been the peacemaker in the family, but she slowly begins to realize that she can no longer function in that role as her illness saps all her energy. Husband, daughter, and mother are incessant in their desire to help Elizabeth, but forget to ask what she needsor wants. Lonesome and restless, Elizabeth deals with the chaos of her illness and the turmoil in her own family by joining a support group. Soon she finds herself embarking with them on a venture to obtain illegal drugs to help ease the physical symptoms of their illnesses. When their plan is foiled by a bitter schemer bent on manipulating the goodwill of the group, Elizabeth is arrested and charged with illegal possession of a narcotic. Confronting criminal charges, changing family dynamics, her own fear, and overcoming physical challenges, Elizabeth encounters fresh questions about her life and rediscovers that faith, hope, and love never fail.

Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnosis, Medical Management, and Rehabilitation

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Great book for those newly-diagnosed with MS 5 out of 5 stars.
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Well, since my MS diagnosis three months ago, I've gone through every book on the subject in my provincial library system. I've not left a page unturned in pamphlets, booklets, newsletters, etc. I'm just so eager for information on the subject, I can't get enough of it. And the best for information advice? No argument, hands down, it's this book. Okay, so it's probably supposedly a medical textbook but it's so darn great for people with MS to read, too. As a matter of fact, I could understand it more readily than some books written for laypeople. It was no-nonsense in its approach to the matter, and certainly not biased one way or the other re treatments, medications, progressions, what-have-you. It's sub-title should've been "Everything you wanted to know about MS - and much much much more". A laywriter writing a book, usually a person with MS, concentrates on his or her own symptoms but this book covers a multitude of them and explains in detail. It's not just mentioned that a person may have (for example) "sensory symptoms". It explains what "sensory symptoms" are to the nth degree. Not many GP's know much about the history, treatments, symptoms, signs of MS. I wish my doctor had this book on his shelf. My first sit-down read of it lasted three hours and I only got quarter-way through - and this without missing out one page. The rest of it I can dip into over time. I felt reassured reading this book, comfortable even. Forewarned is forearmed they say, and this book is forearming me well!! - I'm not (so) scared now.

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Contents: History; Pathology and Pathophysiology; Risk Factors and Theories of Causation; Diagnosis, Signs and Symptoms, and Classification; Treatment; Symptom Management and Rehabilitation; Societal Issues; Multiple Sclerosis in the Community.

Curing MS: How Science Is Solving the Mysteries of Multiple Sclerosis

Howard L. Md Weiner

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MS and diet connection, history of MS, food allergens, Dr.Roy Swank, Robert McDougall, Mr. Ashton Embry..the true leaders 1 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I was diagnosed with MS back in 1996. Yes, MRI confirmed lesions.
This past Sept. /07, symptoms of rash, joint pain plagued my body.
Why?
I recall my childhood and the itchy rashes between my fingers/toes.
I start doing research about gluten.
I go on a gluten free diet, rash/joint pain diminish.
I continue to get spasms at night. WHY? Could my spasms, vision problems, dizziness be connected to my diet....??
YES...Multiple Sclerosis and diet are connected.
I did NOT believe it until this Sept/07

I dismissed Dr. Ashton Embry's work back in 1996. He cured his son of MS and has a wonderful web site: [...]. There is a movement to help people who are ready to listen about the connection between MS and diet.

At [...], etc. Dr. Embry does NOT want any money nor is he back by any drug companies.

There is a campaign at the above web site to do scientific research on the connection between developing MS and ingesting problematic foods.

I keep a food journal, like so many who have suffered in the past have done and who have been dismissed by the medical community. For example:
Dr. Roy Swank, a leader in the connection of the omega oils and being healthier, realized the importance of eating fish etc..and olive oils
Robert McDougall, a man who suffered back in the fifties, who kept a food journal and eventually got out of his wheelchair.
Dr. Ashton Embry, PHD< who cured his son and now has web site with a growing number of people who are healing, like me, by listening to their bodies and changing their diets. The UK is ahead of the USA and back Dr. Ashton Embry's work and web site...
The MS Recovery Diet, by Ann Sawyer and Judith E. Bachrach, both diagnosed with MS back in 1996 and 1997, who confirm Dr. Roy Swank's work, Dr. Ashton Embry's work and Robert McDougall's story. Ann was in a wheel chair, but now she is living her life symptom free. She was on a full disability. Judith lived with MS for 39 years, and her functioning has improved dramatically since she began the MS Recovery Diet in 2006.
Their book and Dr. Embry's web site are my new bibles.
You see, I am healing, thanks to the above people, not to my neurologist.
I am no longer injecting myself every day.
Good Luck in your journey
Listen to your body and feel free to question your physician or choose a physician who is aware of the above names and believes in a diet connection

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What causes multiple sclerosis? When will there be a cure?

Dr. Howard Weiner has spent nearly three decades trying to find answers to the mysteries of multiple sclerosis, an utterly confounding and devastating disease that afflicts almost half a million Americans. Curing MS is his moving, personal account of the long-term scientific quest to pinpoint the origins of the disease and to find a breakthrough treatment for its victims.

Dr. Weiner is at the cutting edge of MS research and drug development, and he describes in clear and illuminating detail the science behind the symptoms and how new drugs may hold the key to “taming the monster.” In Curing MS, Dr. Weiner teaches us the “Twenty-one Points” of MS, a concise breakdown of the knowns and unknowns of the disease; tells stories from the frontlines of laboratories and hospitals; and offers a message of hope that a cure can—and will—be found.

Walk on: Life, Loss, Trust, and Other Realities

John Goldingay

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Valuable Life Lessons 5 out of 5 stars.
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Reading this book is like having a wise older friend share his life experience with you. The valuable lessons that professor Goldingay has learned on what it means to follow God through all of life's ups and downs will enrich your life. They can help us learn to deal with life as it comes, not as we want it to be. He he is able to accept his role as caretaker for his wife, Ann, as a calling from God and is able to see her debilitating illness as a vehicle for her ministry to others. This book is full of profound and moving insights and stories. It is honest about life's difficulties and doubts, but also embraces hope and life's joys along the way. In this journey we are not alone. God walks on with us.

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John Goldingay is a brilliant and sometimes controversial biblical scholar-but he is also a husband and father. In this touching yet theologically perceptive volume, Goldingay reviews some of the most basic questions about the Christian life. These one-word concerns, including community, love, struggle, and tears, are basic, foundational ideas that rarely submit to one-word answers. Goldingay's reflections are laced with references to popular music and personal experiences, many of which relate to the multiple sclerosis that afflicts his wife, Ann. Blended throughout this touching volume are sophisticated theological and biblical insights. The result is a sensible and sophisticated look at the realities of living as a Christian.

Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood

Teri Garr

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At once laugh-out-loud funny and remarkably down-to-earth, the popular Oscar- nominated actress muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS in a book that is both Hollywood hilarious and personally moving

From Speedbumps:
I was originally up for the principal female role in Young Frankenstein. Mel Brooks was directing. He had just finished Blazing Saddles, and was at the top of the comedy world.

Mel had picked me out of five hundred girls, but admitted that he was still trying to convince Madeline Kahn to take the lead role. After I auditioned three times, Madeline finally did decide to take the part of the fiancée.

I was crushed. I’d never come so close to getting a major part in a major movie. But then Mel told me that if I came back the next day with a German accent I could read for the part of Inga, Gene Wilder’s buxom lab assistant.

A German accent in twenty-four hours? Luckily, I was still on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and, as fate would have it, Cher’s wig stylist was German. So, I sat in on Cher’s hairstyling session (that gave me hours of study!) and emerged with a perfect German accent when saying, “Mein Gott, zis vig veighs forty pounds.” That would translate to the script!

There was one last thing I needed for Inga. Or two, actually. I realized Inga’s part was really all about the boobs, so the next day I went in to the audition wearing a bra stuffed with socks. People pay over five thousand dollars for a boob job today. Mine cost under five dollars at Woolworth’s, and got me the part, my biggest to date.

I was thrilled. I’d been chosen by one of the best. My career was finally in motion.

I got to thinking that I should have stuffed my bra with socks for every audition.

In The New Yorker, the late, great film critic Pauline Kael called Garr, "the funniest neurotic dizzy dame

Coping with Physical Loss and Disability: A Workbook (New Horizons in Therapy)

Rick Ritter

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Recommended!! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Reviewed by Christina Gonzalez, LMHC for Reader Views (5/06)

The author starts this very unique workbook with a compelling quote from Christopher Reeve, "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable". This book is a way to help those who have found their dreams become impossible, find new ways to restructure their life, their ways of thinking and their ways of being in order to find ways to help their dreams become inevitable.

This book is oriented towards those who have experienced some type of a physical loss, whether from a disability, accident or including serious, chronic illnesses and pain. His examples range from people who have suffered knee injuries to quadriplegics, to individuals who have undergone a mastectomy from breast cancer to debilitating illnesses like muscular dystrophy. I would see value for individuals with ANY chronic health condition benefiting enormously from this book.

The author suggests that individuals who use this book consult with at least three people in their lives with whom they can share the results of the exercises which is very wise. The author takes the reader through a series of written exercises and anecdotes through six main chapters: Past and Future, Self Care and Support, Dealing with Loss: Feelings and Beliefs, Understanding Disability, Transforming Circumstance, and The Ongoing Process of Loss and Recovery. Each of these remain only questions and words on paper until the reader takes these questions and looks into their lives and then shares them with another.

As a therapist I will be recommending this book to my clients who are struggling with any chronic health issues. I would love to use this workbook with my clients in their therapy as well as suggest they share the information obtained about themselves with others in their lives. The author includes some excellent exercises to help the reader determine what people in their lives might be supportive to this process of recovery from physical loss and/or any chronic health condition.

The appendices include some excellent resources regarding therapeutic techniques and alternatives, suggested reading for coping with loss and disability, films on issues related to physical loss and disability, guidelines for watching films, and a listing of organizations and other resources that can help individuals coping with loss and disability.

As the mother of a child with Cerebral Palsy and as a psychotherapist myself, I found this book to be highly valuable for people dealing with any type of physical loss. As I mentioned above, just buying the book will not do anything. Filling out the exercises will help, but will not make a huge change. Filling out the exercise, following the author on the journey that he is leading the reader on and sharing with those close to the reader will make a great deal of difference. Some of the exercises I found helpful for those suffering from debilitating mental or emotional illnesses and even less acute health conditions such as asthma or others. This book is highly recommended to any individual who has suffered a physical loss and is still struggling to find their dreams. It would make a great gift from a supportive loved one who is also willing to make a stand to be there with the reader as they go through these exercises, and it would make an excellent aid to an individual who is currently seeing a therapist. I would not recommend this to someone who just wants to do the exercises randomly, haphazardly or in order to just keep their answers to themselves and not share them with another.

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This workbook provides more than 50 questions and exercises designed to empower those with physical loss and disability to better understand and accept their ongoing processes of loss and recovery. The exercises in Coping with Physical Loss and Disability were distilled from ten years of clinical social work experience with clients suffering from quadriplegia, paraplegia, amputation, cancer, severe burns, HIV/AIDs, and neuro-muscular disorders arising from accidents, injury, and disease.
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Coping with Physical Loss and Disability: A Workbook is the second book in the New Horizons in Therapy Series. This series is specifically designed to empower clients to work on their own in a therapeutic setting. As many therapists will state, it's often what the client does outside the session that can make the biggest difference in recovery.

Progressive Multiple Sclerosis: New Hope, New Challenges

Patricia K. Coyle, June Halper

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Updated and revised, this concise, functional guide provides an overview of worsening MS and the difficulties faced when progression challenges patients and their loved ones. Written in straightforward language that confronts painful topics while emphasizing the positive, the book focuses on managing the disease and its symptoms and coping with the life changes that accompany it. Authors Patricia K. Coyle and June Halper cover a wide range of topics, including how progressive MS differs from relapsing MS, symptoms and clinical patterns, disease-modifying therapies, and ideas for managing thorny symptoms, functional problems, and psychosocial concerns. There's also coverage of dealing with limitations on daily living, social activities, and employment as well as gender-specific issues and health concerns, including diet, nutrition, and medical exams. All together, this book provides a solid framework for further investigation and discussion, one that a family member, health care professional, or MS patient can use as a starting point.

Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis

Lauren Krupp

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Practical guide for physicians and other health care professionals discusses the impact of fatigue on the individual with MS, the potential etiologies underlying MS-related fatigue, its workup and diagnosis, and pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic management strategies.

People With MS With the Courage to Give

Jackie Waldman

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24 Inspiring Courageous Stories 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

Words cannot describe the impact this book had on me after reading it. Author Jackie Waldman has compiled twenty-four of the most inspiring and touching stories of people with MS, and the effect the disease has on both the person with MS and their families and friends.

I purchased this book because my husband Anthony Zaremba was one of the featured people in the book. As I read the profiles of the others, my emotions ran through a gambit of highs and lows. At times while reading the book, I filled the pages with my own teardrops, and often laughter, as I read of the fortitude and courage that the people in this book exemplify.

If you know of anyone with MS, or if you have MS, place this book on your "must read" list. Best of all, Jackie Waldman's proceeds from this book are being donated to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Thank you Jackie! I give this book five stars!!

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The first story in this book is Jackie Waldman's own - the self-described charmed life - until July 1991, when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. It took years, but eventually she came to understand that a person with MS is only part of who she is. In this book, Waldman has collected stories of 24 men and women living with MS, who have extraordinary lives, and who have found the courage to do new things or old things in new ways.