""Front Cover""; ""Neuropathology""; ""Copyright""; ""Handbook of Clinical Neurology 3rd Series""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Contributors""; ""Contents""; ""Section I: Pathology of the central nervous system""; ""Chapter 1: Techniques in neuropathology""; ""Introduction""; ""Gross examination""; ""Neuroanatomy""; ""Light microscopy""; ""Histologic techniques""; ""Immunohistochemistry""; ""Electron microscopy""; ""Molecular biology""; ""Epigenetics""; ""Summary""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2: Banking brain tissue for research""; ""Human tissue for research""

""The origin of collections of human tissue and fluids""""Transformation of collections into biobanks""; ""Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Disclaimer""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3: Cellular reactions of the central nervous system""; ""Introduction""; ""Neurons""; ""Definition and markers""; ""Pathologic reactions""; ""Astrocytes""; ""Definition and markers""; ""Pathologic reactions""; ""Oligodendroctyes""; ""Definition and markers""; ""Pathologic reactions""; ""Microglia""; ""Definition and markers""; ""Pathologic reactions""; ""Ependymal cells""; ""Definition and markers""

""Pathologic reactions""""Choroid plexus""; ""Definition and markers""; ""Pathologic reactions""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4: Raised intracranial pressure and brain edema""; ""Classification""; ""Cytotoxic edema""; ""Ionic edema (osmotic edema)""; ""Vasogenic edema""; ""High-altitude cerebral edema""; ""Interstitial edema""; ""Epidemiology""; ""Clinical phenotypes and imaging""; ""Traumatic brain injury""; ""Hemorrhagic stroke""; ""Ischemic stroke""; ""Tumors""; ""Infections""; ""Chronically increased ICP""; ""Imaging""; ""Neuropathology""; ""Macroscopy""; ""Microscopy""

""Pathogenesis, experimental models, and biochemistry""""References""; ""Chapter 5: Cerebrospinal fluid circulation and hydrocephalus""; ""CSF circulation""; ""Classification""; ""Chronic hydrocephalus""; ""Epidemiology""; ""Hydrocephalus in children""; ""Chronic hydrocephalus""; ""Idiopathic intracranial hypertension""; ""Clinical phenotypes and imaging""; ""Idiopathic intracranial hypertension""; ""Chronic hydrocephalus -- normal-pressure hydrocephalus""; ""Long-standing overt ventriculomegaly in adults""; ""Neuropathology""; ""Macroscopy""; ""Microscopy/immunohistochemistry""

""Overview of the diagnostic approach""""Diagnostic criteria""; ""Pathogenesis, experimental models, and biochemistry""; ""Secondary hydrocephalus""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6: Developmental and perinatal brain diseases""; ""Brain development""; ""Macroscopic examination""; ""Corticogenesis""; ""Development of the cerebellum""; ""Development of the spinal cord""; ""CNS manifestations of chromosomal change""; ""Forebrain patterning defects""; ""Neural tube defects""; ""Midline patterning defects""; ""Holoprosencephaly""; ""Atelencephaly/aprosencephaly""; ""Agenesis of the corpus callosum""

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