Andreas Otte Books

Exploring the intersection of music and medicine, this book delves into the health issues faced by renowned composers, linking their personal medical histories to their creative outputs. It investigates intriguing questions about the influences of diseases on their lives and works, such as Paganini's hereditary conditions and Ravel's declining health. Written by a physician and musician, the text integrates recent medical research, making it a compelling read for anyone interested in the lives and challenges of these musical giants, as well as the science behind their struggles.

Nuclear Medicine in Psychiatry showcases the combined expertise of renowned authors whose dedication to the investigation of psychiatric disease through nuclear medicine technology has achieved international recognition. Psychiatric disorders are discussed both from categorical and functional psychopathological viewpoint and the latest results in functional neuroimaging are detailed. Most chapters are written jointly by a psychiatrist and a nuclear medicine expert, and each contains a section „Clinical Aspects“, to link research data with clinical routine. This state-of-the-art compendium will be valuable to anybody in the field of neuroscience, from the psychiatrist and the radiologist/nuclear medicine specialist to the interested general practitioner and cognitive psychologist.

This book, now in its second, completely revised and updated edition, offers a critical approach to the challenging interpretation of the latest research data obtained using functional neuroimaging in whiplash injury. Such a comprehensive guide to recent and current international research in the field is more necessary than ever, given that the confusion regarding the condition and the medicolegal discussions surrounding it have increased further despite the publication of much literature on the subject. In recent decades especially the functional imaging methods – such as single-photon emission tomography, positron emission tomography, functional MRI, and hybrid techniques – have demonstrated a variety of significant brain alterations. Functional Neuroimaging in Whiplash Injury - New Approaches covers all aspects, including the imaging tools themselves, the various methods of image analysis, different atlas systems, and diagnostic and clinical aspects. The book will help physicians, patients and their relatives and friends, and others to understand this condition as a disease.

In the past two decades much has been published on whiplash injury, yet both the confusion regarding the condition and the medicolegal discussion surrounding it have increased. In this scenario, a guide to recent and current international research in the field is more necessary than ever. Especially functional imaging methods – such as single-photon emission tomography, positron emission tomography, functional MRI, and hybrid techniques – have demonstrated a variety of significant brain alterations. This book accordingly offers a critical approach to the challenging interpretation of the new research data obtained using functional neuroimaging in whiplash injury. It covers all aspects, including the imaging tools themselves and the different methods of image analysis. Whiplash Injury: New Methods of Functional Neuroimaging will hopefully help patients, their relatives and friends, physicians, and others to understand this condition as a disease.

Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Analyse des Halswirbelsäulen-Schleudertraumas und dessen Auswirkungen auf die Patienten. Es beleuchtet die Rolle funktioneller Bildgebungsverfahren wie PET und SPECT, die neue Erkenntnisse über Gehirnveränderungen nach Unfällen liefern. Die Autoren kritisieren bestehende Literatur und zeigen Herausforderungen in der gutachterlichen Praxis auf. Jedes Hauptkapitel endet mit einer verständlichen Zusammenfassung für Betroffene und Laien, die auf medizinische Fachbegriffe verzichtet, um die Thematik zugänglicher zu machen.

Das Halswirbelsäulen-Schleudertrauma ist häufig eine chronische Erkrankung für Betroffene. Neuere funktionelle Bildgebungsverfahren wie PET und SPECT ermöglichen es, Veränderungen des Gehirns infolge eines Unfalls darzustellen, was zu Verwirrung bei Patienten, Ärzten, Versicherungen und Gutachtern geführt hat. Das Buch adressiert diesen Erklärungsnotstand und bietet eine umfassende Einführung in die Thematik sowie einen Überblick über die Verfahren der funktionellen Bildgebung und deren Auswertung. Es beleuchtet kritisch die vorhandene Literatur und die Herausforderungen in der gutachterlichen Praxis. Jedes Hauptkapitel enthält eine kurze Zusammenfassung für Betroffene und Laien, die weitgehend ohne medizinische Fachterminologie auskommt. Die Themen umfassen: eine Einführung in die Problematik, einschließlich allgemeiner Informationen, Vorkommen, Mechanik und Diagnostik; die Verfahren der funktionellen Bildgebung mit allgemeinen Informationen und Messverfahren; die Bildauswertung mit visueller und quantitativer Analyse sowie Anforderungen an moderne Bildanalysen; den aktuellen Stand der Forschung zu milden traumatischen Hirnverletzungen und HWS-Schleudertraumata sowie deren differentialdiagnostische Herausforderungen; und die mögliche Beziehung zwischen HWS-Schleudertrauma und Alzheimer.