Neurology
A Clinician's Approach

Teaches symptom-oriented approaches to the most common problems facing trainee neurologists, emphasising patient history and integrating evidence-based and experience-based strategies.

Andrew Tarulli (Author)

9780521722223, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 November 2010

240 pages, 73 b/w illus. 36 tables
24.6 x 19 x 1.2 cm, 0.52 kg

Neurology: A Clinician's Approach teaches a symptom-oriented approach to the 20 most common problems which face neurologists in training. Emphasizing the primary importance of the patient history, the reader is instructed which questions to ask in order to elicit the chief complaint, how to ask these questions, and how to interpret the answers. The neurologic examination is presented as a flexible diagnostic tool rather than as a rigid exercise to be performed by rote and without reference to the chief complaint. Each chapter integrates evidence-based and experience-based approaches to diagnostic testing and treatment. Frequently-encountered conditions, uncommon 'zebras', and non-neurologic mimics of nervous system dysfunction are all given appropriate weight. Neurology: A Clinician's Approach is essential reading for neurologists in training, including neurology residents and medical students.

Preface
1. Confusion
2. Coma
3. Aphasia
4. Dementia
5. Visual loss
6. Diplopia
7. Disorders of the eyelids and pupils
8. Facial weakness, dysarthria and dysphagia
9. Dizziness and vertigo
10. Proximal and generalized weakness
11. Focal limb weakness
12. Rapidly progressive weakness
13. Parkinsonism
14. Hyperkinetic movement disorders
15. Distal and generalized sensory systems
16. Focal pain syndromes of the extremities
17. Back pain and myelopathy
18. Gait disorders
19. Headache and facial pain
20. Seizures and epilepsy
21. Stroke
22. Multiple sclerosis
23. Intracranial mass legions
Index.

Subject Areas: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN], Medical diagnosis [MJA]