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2005 PHILADELPHIA LYME DISEASE CONFERENCE DVDS

To order, go to http://www.lymediseaseassociation.org

DVD set (2, approximately 6 hours total) of the LDA Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Diseases Conference: Emerging Tick-Borne Diseases, Philadelphia 2005 is now available!

Speakers are: Sven Bergstrom, PhD, Infection biology of relapsing fever Borrelia: mechanisms of evasion and persistence (edited by speaker); Steven Norris, PhD, Virulence determinants of Borrelia burgdorferi; Gregory Storch, MD, Ehrlichiosis; Martin Fried, MD, Unique dermatologic manifestations of tick-borne diseases; Ed Masters, STARI (Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness) AKA Master's Disease; Terry Schultze, PhD, Assessment and management of vector tick populations; Susan Little, DVM, Tick-borne diseases in the southern U.S.; Daniel Cameron, MD, Results from Lyme disease treatment trial; Joshua Zimmerberg, MD, PhD, 3 Dimensional Culturing of Borrelia burgdorferi in micro-gravity chamber (edited by speaker); Richard Brown, MD, Complementary medicine approaches to treatment of chronic Lyme Symptoms.

Lyme Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment
Lyme Disease Foundation Satellite Conference in Chicago, Illinois
Speakers: Willy Burgdorfer, Julie Rawlings, Mark Schmidt, Ron Schell, Dennis Parenti, Anthony Lionetti, Ken Liegner, Brian Fallon, Sam Donta.
Topics: Tick-borne Disorders; Public Health Impact; Diagnostic Tests; Early Disease;
Disseminated Disease; Psychiatric Manifestations; Refractory Disease.
Date: 3/23/1998
Contact: Lyme Disease Foundation at 860-525-2000 or lymefnd@aol.com

Title: Lyme Disease - Microbes, Mood, and Politics.
Lyme Disease Symposium #2.
Speaker: Brian A. Fallon, MD
Date: 4/18/1996
Contact: Cape Cod Lyme Disease Awareness Association: 508-563-7033

Books

For the Non-Medical Professional:

Title: Coping with Lyme Disease: A Practical Guide to Dealing with Diagnosis and Treatment. Author: Denise Lang and Kenneth Liegner, MD. 2004.

Title: The Widening Circle
Author: Polly Murray.
Publisher: St. Martin. s Press, NYC, NY
Date: 1996.

Title: Of Power and Love and Sound Mind - Six Years with Undiagnosed Lyme Disease
(Republished in Paperback as "Lyme Disease: My search for a diangosis")
Author: Linda Hanner
Publisher: Kashan Publishing, Delano, MN.
Date: 1989

Title: Coping with Lyme disease
Author: Denise Lang
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, NYC, NY
Date: 1993

Title: Everything you need to know about LYme Disease and other Tickborne Disorders
Author: Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner, Joseph I. Lieberman (Afterword), William Burgdorger (Foreword).
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, 1997

Title: Lyme Disease: the Cause, the Cure, the Controversy
Author: Alan Barbour, MD.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University press, 1996.


For the Medical Professional

Title: Lyme Disease Update: Science, Policy, and Law. Author: Marcus A. Cohen. Foreward: Brian Fallon, MD. Preface: Amy Tan. Lyme Disease Association, 2004. For copies, go to www.lymediseaseassociation.org.

Title: Bull's Eye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease (Paperback) Author: Jonathan Edlow, MD, 2003.

Title: Borrelia: strains, vectors, human and animal borreliosis .
Author: Oscar Felsenfeld, M.Sc, MD
Publisher: Warren Green, Inc, St. Louis, Missouri
Date: 1971

Title: Lyme Disease - Molecular and Immunologic Approaches
Editor: Steven E. Schutzer, MD
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Date: 1992

Articles
by Dr. Fallon and others

Fallon BA, Nields JA, Wilson K, Burrascano J, Liegner K, Liebowitz MR. The Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Lyme Borreliosis. Psychiatric Quarterly, 63: 95-117, 1992.

http://www.x-l.net/Lyme/1falon.htm

Fallon BA, Nields JA, Parsons B, Liebowitz MR, Klein DF.Psychiatric Manifestations of Lyme Borreliosis. J Clin Psychiatry 54: 263-268, 1993

Fallon BA, Nields JA. Lyme disease: a neuropsychiatric illness. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1994; 141: 1571-1583.

Fallon BA, Bird H, Hoven C, Cameron D, Liebowitz MR, Shaffer D. Psychiatric Aspects of Lyme Disease in Children and Adolescents: a Community Epidemiologic Study in Westchester, New York. J Spirochetal and Tick-borne Diseases, 1994; 1:98-100.

Fallon BA, Schwartzberg M, Bransfield R, Zimmerman B, Scotti A, Weber CA, Liebowitz MR. Late Stage Neuropsychiatric Lyme disease: Diagnosis & Treatment. Psychosomatics, 1995; 36: 295-300. http://www.x-l.net/Lyme/Fallon95.htm

Fallon BA. Neuropsychiatric Lyme Disease. Harvard Mental Health Letter, Forum 10/95.

Fallon BA, Das S, Plutchok J, Tager F, Liegner K, Van Heertum R. Functional Imaging and Neuropsychological Testing in Lyme Disease. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 25: S57-63, 1997.

Liegner KI, Duray P, Agricola M, Rosenkilde C. Yannuzzi A, Ziska M, Tilton R, Hulinska D, Hubbard J, Fallon BA. Lyme Disease and the Clinical Spectrum of antibiotic-responsive Meningoencephalomyelitides. J Spirochetal and Tick Borne Diseases; 1998; 4: 62-73.

Fallon BA, Kochevar JM, Gaito A, Nields J. The Underdiagnosis of Neuropsychiatric Lyme Disease in Children and Adults. In Diagnostic Dilemmas. Edited by David Tomb. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1998; 21: 693-703.

Nields JA, Fallon BA. Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease with Special Reference to Psychiatric Practice. Directions in Psychiatry, 1998, 18: 209-228.

Plutchok JJ, Tikofsky RS, Liegner KB, Fallon BA, Van Heertum RL. Tc-99m HMPAO Brain SPECT Imaging in Chronic Lyme Disease. Journal of Spirochetal and Tick Borne-Diseases, 1999; 6: 10-16.
http://www.medscape.com/SLACK/JSTD/1999/v06.n04/std0604.06.plut/std0604.06.plut-01.html

Fallon BA, Weis N, Tager F, Fein L, Liegner K, Liebowitz MR. Repeated Antibiotic Therapy in Chronic Lyme Disease. Journal of Spirochetal and Tick Borne Diseases, 1999; 6: 1-9.
http://www.medscape.com/SLACK/JSTD/1999/v06.n04/std0604.02.fall/std0604.02.fall-01.html

Nields J, Fallon BA, Jastreboff P. Kindling, Carbamazepine, and Lyme-induced Hyperacusis. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 1999; 11: 97-99.

Fallon BA. Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Non-HIV Infectious Diseases. In Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry., Ed. Kaplan and Sadock. Williams & Wilkins, 2000.

Fallon BA. Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Non-HIV Infectious Diseases. In Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Eighth Edition. Ed. Kaplan and Sadock. Williams and Wilkins, 2005

Keilp BA, Corbera K., Slavov I., Taylor M.J., Sackeim H.A., Fallon B.A. WAIS-III and WMS-III Performance in chronic Lyme disease. J International Neuropsychological Society. 2006;12(1):119-129.

Fallon BA, Vaccaro B, Romano M, Clemente D. Neuropsychiatric and Neuropathologic Aspects of Lyme Disease. Psychiatric Annals, 36:120-128, 2006.

Fallon BA. "Is it serious Doc?" In DSM-IV Casebook, Volume II. Editors: RL Spitzer et al. American Psychiatric Press, 2006.


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