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    Overview of Geriatric Neurology
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    Chapter 52 discusses pharmacotherapy in geriatric neurology, and addresses the increased risk in elderly patients for experiencing adverse drug reactions (ADRs), as well as managing the many elderly patients who use multiple medications, have multiple comorbidities, and have age-related changes in drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
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    Chapter 1 introduces the area of geriatric neurology, with a focus on understanding and management of the neurologic diseases and disabilities of old age. It also attempts to clarify the distinctions, sometimes fine, between normal neurological changes of aging and pathological changes due to neurological disease or medical disease secondarily affecting the nervous system.