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Author:   Mustapha El Alaoui-Faris ,  Antonio Federico ,  Wolfgang Grisold
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.852kg
ISBN:  

9783030810603

ISBN 10:   3030810607
Pages:   347
Publication Date:   24 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword.- Preface.- Part I. Introductory Testimonies.- Chapter 1. The trauma of migration. Considerations from a first-line doctor in Lampedusa.- Chapter 2. Migration and Poetry.- Part II. Historical, Geography, and Health Problems of Migration.- Chapter 3. History of Migration.- Chapter 4. Migration across History.- Chapter 5. History of North African Migration to Europe: the Case of Morocco.- Chapter 6. Migration, Environment and Climate Change.- Chapter 7. Child Migration and School Achievement.- Chapter 8. Barriers to Health for Migrants and Refugees.- Chapter 9. Contributions of Migration and Refugees Research to Neurology and Neurosciences.- Chapter 10. How can Host Countries Provide Neurological Care to Migrants and Refugees.- Chapter 11. Neurological and Mental Health Problems among Refugees from South Asia.- Part III. Neurological Disorders in Migrants.- Chapter 12. Neuroinfectious Diseases in Migrants and Refugees.- Chapter 13. The Devastating Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Ethnic Minorities, Migrants, and Refugees.- Chapter 14. Cerebrovascular Risk Factors in Migrants and Refugees.- Chapter 15. Stroke in Migrants.- Chapter 16. Multiple Sclerosis in Migrants.- Chapter 17. Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders in Migrants.- Chapter 18. Neurological Manifestations of Behçet Diseases related to Migration and Ethnicity.- Chapter 19. Headache in Migrants and Refugees.- Chapter 20. Epilepsy in Migrants.- Chapter 21. Movement Disorders in Migrants.- Chapter 22. Cross-cultural Cognitive Examination in Aging Migrants.- Chapter 23. Dementia in Aging Migrants.- Chapter 24. Anxiety and Depression in Migrants.- Chapter 25. Somatization and Functional Disorders in Migrants and Refugees.- Chapter 26. Palliative Care in Migrants.- Part IV. Future Developments.- Chapter 27. Migrants’ Health, the Sustainable Development Goals and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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"Mustapha El Alaoui-Faris is professor of Neurology and Neuropsychology at the Mohammed-V University and Director of the Alzheimer’s Center of Rabat, Morocco. His mean clinical interests are Dementia, Clinical Neuropsychology, Stroke, Parkinson’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis. He is the author of more than 400 articles on international journals as well as author of several book chapters. Prof. El Alaoui Faris is the founder and past president of the Moroccan Society of Neurology and the Moroccan Society of Neuropsychology and current president of the Moroccan Foundation Against Neurological Diseases and the Moroccan Alzheimers’ Association. He was the president of the XXth World Congress of Neurology, held in Marrakech, 2011. He is also the founder and chair of the WFN Special Group on “Neurology in Migrants” and was member of the WHO board for the Revision of the International Classification of Diseases 10 (ICD 10). Prof. El Alaoui-Faris received in 2019, the World Federation of Neurology Medal for Service to International Neurology. Antonio Federico is emeritus professor of Neurology at the University of Siena and past Director of the Unit of Clinical Neurology and Neurometabolic Diseases and of the Dept. Neurological and Behavioural Sciences. His main field of interest is related to neurometabolic, neurodegenerative and rare diseases. He is author of more than 600 articles as well as author of book chapters and editor of the book “Late Onset Neurometabolic diseases”, Federico, Suzuki and Baumann editors, Karger, 1991. Recently he published (2015) the “Manuale di Neurologia Pratica"" and ""Neurologia and Assistenza infermieristica” for Italian students. Prof. Federico was president of the Italian Society of Neurology, vice-Rector of the University of Siena, chairmen of the Scientific Committee of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), of the Neuromediterraneum Forum and co-chair of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) Specialistgroup of Neurology and Migrants. He is presently co-chair of EAN Task Force on Rare Neurologic Diseases, Chair of the WFN Specialist group on Rare Neurologic diseases, italian representative at EAN and WFN and Editor-in-Chief of Neurological Sciences (Springer Editor). Wolfgang Grisold, Dr., Prof., FAAN, is a specialist for neurology and psychiatry. His special interests apart from general neurology are neuromuscular disease and neuro-oncology, palliative care, advocacy and education in neurology. He has a particular expertise in neuromuscular disease in regards to correlation of clinical findings, electrophysiology, neuropathology and imaging. He was involved in several international educational committees, and co-chairs education committee of the World Federation of Neurology. He organized several international congresses as the EANO congress in Vienna in 2006 and the ICNMD in Vienna 2018 and was the founding editor of the EANO neuro-oncology magazine, and is the past European co-editor of neuro-oncology practice. He is now co- editor of both Neurological Sciences and e -Neurological Sciences. At the local level he was instrumental to introduce the multidisciplinary subspecialty of palliative care with neurological participation in Austria. His main scientific topics are neurooncology and neuromuscular diseases, among others as education.  He published 700 publications (250 Pubmed quoted) and edited or co-edited 14 books, one of them on Advocacy in Neurology. He is the secretary general of the World Federation of Neurology and involved in many international and global activities."

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