Insights into Clinical Neurology

This illuminating book offers insights into neurological examination, higher cortical disorders, lower functions and neurological diseases.

Robert Laureno (Author)

9781009234979, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 July 2023

210 pages
24.1 x 16.1 x 0.9 cm, 0.33 kg

This illuminating book clarifies controversial topics in challenging and often confusing areas of neurology for all who are interested in clinical neuroscience. It provides an organized approach to neurological conditions such as amnesic syndrome, aphasia, agnosia and apraxia, it includes previously unpublished data on grasp reflex and Wernicke disease is presented. Written by an internationally renowned author, the book draws on his extensive personal experience to orient neurological clinicians to a variety of conditions by putting less accessible literature into context with recent advances and information from interviews undertaken throughout his career. This book will appeal to general and specialist neurologists, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants and those training to specialise in neurology.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The amnesic syndrome
2. Aphasia, apraxia and agnosia
3. Spurious symptoms and behaviors
4. Hallucinations
5. Grasping and the grasp reflex
6. Asterixis
7. Discussion of the upper motor neuron syndrome
8. Some aspects of the lower motor neuron syndrome
9. The limbic 'system'
10. Vibration sensation, the posterior columns and related topics
11. Trans neuronal effects
12. Spinal nerve roots
13. Ischemic-Hypoxic encephalopathy
14. The liver-brain relationship in Wilson disease
15. Wernicke disease
16. Delayed neurologic disorders after a toxic or metabolic insult
17. Transolfactory spread in the pathogenesis of meningoencephalitis
18. Neurologic disorders in endocarditis
19. Secondary abscess formation in primary brain lesions
20. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: the early years
Index.

Subject Areas: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN], Endocrinology [MJG], Infectious & contagious diseases [MJCJ], Anatomy [MFC]