Tae ho guak (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1784 the son of a Korean envoy was baptized in Beijing and carried the books home. There were no missionaries in Korea. There would be none for eleven years. In the meantime a handful of scholars read their way into a faith, appointed their own clergy, and began baptizing one another. When the state finally understood what had grown up inside it, the killing went on, in waves, for a hundred years.This is the story of one family. Four brothers grew up in a house on the Han river above Seoul. The eldest never converted, and buried the others. The second was exiled to an island, where he wrote the first catalogue of Korean marine life. The third was beheaded, and the catechism he wrote in the vernacular kept the church alive for thirty-three years without a priest. The fourth recanted, survived, and became the most quoted thinker Korea has produced. Their children walked to Beijing and back for twenty years to ask for a priest, wrote to the Pope, and got one.Built from interrogation records, a survivor's private papers, and testimony collected from the last people who remembered, The House at Majae is the history of the only church in the world assembled by laypeople out of books, and of what it cost the family who read them.Tae Ho Guak, MD is a Catholic neurologist in Korea and the author of The God Neuroscience Found. He lives an hour downriver from Majae. Riche Books.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In January 2025, the guidelines reversed. Most patients have not been told.For twenty years, the first drug offered for restless legs syndrome was a dopamine agonist. In 2025 the American Academy of Sleep Medicine issued a clinical practice guideline that recommends against using them as standard first-line treatment - and recommends, instead, the alpha-2-delta ligands and intravenous iron.Millions of people are still taking the older drugs. Many of them are getting worse and have been told it is their condition progressing. Often it is not. It is augmentation: the medication itself driving the symptoms earlier into the day, into the arms, into the hours when they used to be free.This book is a neurologist's explanation of what changed, why it changed, and what to do about it - written for the person living with it, not for the clinic.Inside: - The five criteria that make the diagnosis, and the conditions that get mistaken for it- What augmentation looks like from the inside, and the questions that distinguish it from ordinary worsening- Why a ferritin result marked normal by the laboratory can still be too low for restless legs - and why the thresholds moved again in 2026- What the 2025 guideline actually recommends, and what it recommends against- The medications, supplements, and over-the-counter sleep aids that quietly make it worse- Peroneal nerve stimulation, compression, exercise, and the folklore - sorted by evidence, with the manufacturer-funding caveats stated plainly- Surgery, pregnancy, dialysis, long flights: the situations nobody prepares you for- For the partner who has not slept properly in years- Printable forms, a glossary, an index, and a page of questions to take to your appointmentThis book contains no doses and no tapering schedules. That is deliberate. Those decisions depend on your examination, your blood results, and everything else you take. What this book gives you is the ability to walk into an appointment knowing what to ask.Tae Ho Guak, MD is a neurologist with twenty-five years in practice and a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.Educational only. Not medical advice. Do not stop a dopamine agonist abruptly.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Essential tremor is the most common movement disorder in adults - and it is still routinely mistaken for early Parkinson's disease.For patients, and sometimes for their own doctors, a shaking hand and Parkinson's disease get run together. They are not the same condition, they do not behave the same way, and they are not treated the same way. This book starts by fixing that: how to tell the two apart, in the specific, plain language a neurologist actually uses in the exam room.For thirty to sixty percent of patients, the two oldest tremor medications - propranolol and primidone - still work well, and this book says so plainly rather than talking around it. For the rest, still shaking after doing everything right, it explains what has genuinely changed in recent years: an incisionless procedure now used safely into a patient's eighties, and a surgical option that has been substantially refined.Written by a practicing neurologist, this book is built to be read start to finish or used as a reference at each stage of the condition.Inside: - How to tell essential tremor from Parkinson's disease, in the exact details doctors use- A side-by-side comparison of every medication, including real trial dropout rates- Why the deep brain stimulation target for essential tremor is different from the one used for Parkinson's disease- Focused ultrasound and deep brain stimulation, compared honestly - what each can do, and for whom- Balance, falls, and the daily-life adaptations that make a real difference- What to tell your children about their own risk, and when genetic counseling actually helps- Head and voice tremor, a pattern most books on this topic barely mention- The emotional weight of a visible tremor, and when it's worth asking for help- What real research - not hype - suggests is coming nextThis book does not argue for having a procedure over medication. Its purpose is to show, honestly and side by side, that most patients do well on medication alone - and that the rest now have an option that didn't exist a decade ago.Tae Ho Guak, MD has practiced medicine for thirty years and neurology for twenty-five, and serves on the clinical faculty of the Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine.Educational only. Not medical advice. Always consult your own physician about your own diagnosis and treatment.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One patient in three feels their sight is affected. Three in five already have measurable loss.Idiopathic intracranial hypertension - also called pseudotumor cerebri - is a disease in which the loud symptom and the dangerous one are not the same thing.The headache is what brings almost everyone to a doctor. It is also the least informative thing about the illness: there is no characteristic headache here, which is why so many patients are treated for migraine for years while the real problem goes unexamined. Meanwhile the damage starts at the edges of vision, below the midline, in arcs - and central vision, the part that reads a page and recognises a face, is the last thing to go. People lose a third of their visual field without noticing anything at all.Written by a practising neurologist, this book is built around that gap: what a proper evaluation actually looks like, why a ninety-second examination of the optic discs keeps not being done, and how to tell a real diagnosis from the two-in-five referrals that turn out to be something else.What this book covers- Why it gets mistaken for migraine - and why a headache description cannot make or exclude the diagnosis- What a proper workup is, in order: fundus examination, formal visual fields, OCT, imaging including venography, and the lumbar puncture- How sight is lost without warning, and what the monitoring tests can see that you cannot- Acetazolamide and topiramate - what the trials actually showed, including the side effects patients are not warned about- The GLP-1 drugs: pressure fell within two and a half hours of a single injection, far too fast for weight loss to explain it - and why that trial had fifteen completers- The weight conversation, handled honestly rather than avoided- Fulminant disease: the two to three per cent who lose sight over days, and what to say to get seen today- Venous sinus stenting, shunts and their revision rate, and optic nerve sheath fenestration, compared side by side- The headache that outlasts the treatment - including the CGRP antibody evidence, and the safety warning that comes with it- Brain fog, pulsatile tinnitus, work, driving, pregnancy, and what happens if sight is lost anywayEvery figure is tied to a numbered reference - 174 of them, drawn from the published literature. Where two good studies disagree, both appear. Where the evidence does not exist - on flying, on lifting, on what this disease does to a career - the book says so plainly instead of inventing an answer.It includes a one-page suspect-confirm-treat chart written to be photographed and taken to an appointment.Tae Ho Guak, MD, is a neurologist with thirty years in medicine, twenty-five of them in headache.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They were told it was BPPV. They had the repositioning done. It seemed to help, and then the dizziness came back. The tests found nothing much. A pill helped for a while. Months pass this way, sometimes years.A good share of these patients have the same disease. Vestibular migraine.In adult dizziness clinics it accounts for somewhere between 7 and 20 percent of patients, and in a large American pediatric series it was the most common diagnosis of all. Yet in a German population study, only one in five who met criteria had ever been given the diagnosis - and in an American survey, only one in ten had been told migraine was the cause. It is not a rare disease that hides. It is a common disease that goes unnamed.A neurologist who has seen headache and dizziness in the same office for thirty years wrote this book to shorten that road. It reads the international diagnostic criteria line by line without using them as a gatekeeper, marks every treatment recommendation with an evidence grade, and marks the places where the author goes beyond the evidence - so the reader always knows which is which. What finds this disease is not a new machine; it is a few minutes of questions: Did you get headaches when you were younger Did you get carsick as a child Did your mother have headaches This book spends more pages on how to ask those questions than on anything else.For clinicians who see dizzy patients - and for patients and families who have spent years moving from office to office without a name. Easier than a textbook, deeper than a health book. …