Pocket Companion to Neurology in Clinical Practice

The Pocket Companion to Neurology in Clinical Practice, 4th Edition is a rewritten, condensed version of all the material in the new fourth edition of Neurology in Clinical Practice. The content has been reworked to provide a portable, quick-access handbook to key clinical information. In many cases, large portions of the text in the 2 volumes has been condensed into tables.

This companion is also be available in PDA format (ISBNs 0750675012 and 0750675004 ) and can be purchased as a book and PDA package (ISBN 0750675144).

Features

Portable, quick-access handbook
Based on the most authoritative clinical neurology text
Written in an even style with no redundancies or contradicting statements

Contents

I. APPROACH TO DIAGNOSIS OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE

1 . Episodic Impairment of Consciousness, Falls, and Drop Attacks
2 . Delirium, Stupor, and Coma
3. Intellectual and Memory Impairments
4. Behavior and Personality Disturbances, Depression, and Psychosis
5. Apraxia and Agnosia
6. Language Disorders
7. Dysphagia in Neurological Practice
8. Disturbances of Vision
9. Eye Movement, Pupillary, and Eyelid Disorders
10. Dizziness, Vertigo, Hearing Loss, and Tinnitus
11. Disturbances of Taste and Smell
12. Cranial and Facial Pain
13. Brainstem Syndromes
14. Gait Disorders
15. Hemiplegia and Monoplegia
16. Paraplegia and Spinal Cord Syndromes
17. Proximal, Distal, and Generalized Weakness
18. Muscle Pain and Cramps
19. The Floppy Infant
20. Sensory Abnormalities of the Limbs, Trunk, and Face
21. Sexual and Sphincter Disturbances
22. Arm and Neck Pain
23. Lower Back and Lower Limb Pain

II. THE NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS

24. Neurological Complications of Systemic Disease
25. Trauma of the Nervous System
26. Vascular Diseases of the Nervous System
27. Cancer and the Nervous System
28. Infections of the Nervous System
29. Multiple Sclerosis and Other Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases of the Central Nervous System
30. Anoxic and Ischemic Encephalopathies
31. Toxic and Metabolic Encephalopathies
32. Deficiency Diseases of the Nervous System
33. Effects of Toxins and Physical Agents on the Nervous System
34. Brain Edema and Disorders of Cerebrospinal Fluid Circulation
35. Developmental Disorders of the Nervous System
36. Developmental Disabilities
37. Inborn Errors of Metabolism of the Nervous System
38. Mitochondrial Disorders
39 Chanellopathies
40. Neurocutaneous Syndromes
41. The Dementias
42. The Epilepsies
43. Excessive Daytime Somnolence and Sleep Disorders
44. Headache and Other Craniofacial Pain
45. Disturbances of Lower Cranial Nerves
46. Movement Disorders
47. Cerebellar and Spinocerebellar Disorders
48. Disorders of Bones, Joints, Ligaments, and Meninges
49. Disorders of Upper and Lower Motor Neurons
50. Disorders of Nerve Roots and Plexuses
51 Disorders of Peripheral Nerves
52. Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System
53. Disorders of Neuromuscular Transmission
54. Disorders of Skeletal Muscle
55. Neurological Problems of the Newborn
56. Neurological Problems of Pregnancy
56. Principles of Pain Management