Merritt's Neurology

The thoroughly updated Twelfth Edition of this classic retains the organization, practicality, and readability that makes Merritt's Neurology one of the most popular texts among neurologists, primary care physicians, and residents reviewing for psychiatry or neurology boards. In 183 short chapters, the book provides the essentials clinicians need on symptoms/signs, diagnostic tests, and neurologic disorders of all etiologies.

For this edition, Timothy Pedley, MD, Chair of the Department of Neurology at Columbia University, joins Dr. Rowland as co-editor. Two new chapters focus on approach to the patient with neurological disease and synthesis of clinical data. This edition also includes more information on restless leg syndrome, guidance on how to discuss brain death/organ donation with family, expanded information on diagnostic test selection, and more tables and figures.

A companion Website will offer the fully searchable text and an image bank.

Table of Contents

SECTION HEADINGS

SYMPTOMS OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS

INFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

VASCULAR DISEASES

HYDROCEPHALUS AND CEREBRAL EDEMA

TUMORS

TRAUMA

SPINE AND SPINAL CORD DISORDERS

BIRTH INJURIES AND DEVELOPMENTAL ABNORMALITIES

GENETIC DISEASES OF THE CNS

MITOCHONDRIAL DISORDERS

NEUROCUTANEOUS SYNDROMES

DEMENTIA

MOVEMENT DISORDERS

HEREDITARY ATAXIAS

MOTOR NEURON DISEASES

PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIES

DISORDERS OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION

MYOPATHIES

DEMYELINATING DISEASES

PAROXYSMAL DISORDERS

AUTONOMIC DISEASES

SYSTEMIC DISEASES AND GENERAL MEDICINE

PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY

ENVIRONMENTAL NEUROLOGY