Pocket Neurology (2nd Edition)

Description

Written by residents for residents, Pocket Neurology, 2nd Edition is your go-to resource for essential neurologic information in a high-yield, easy-to-use format. Concise and well organized , it provides must-know information on hospital- and clinic-based neurologic workup, diagnosis, and management. The second edition of this pocket-sized bestseller delivers highly relevant adult neurologic coverage in an easily portable source.

Key Features

• Find what you need quickly and easily with concise text, numerous tables, and bulleted lists throughout.
• Progress logically from neurologic signs and symptoms to differential diagnosis, workup and diagnosis, assessment of risks and benefits of available treatments, to treatment and prognosis.
• Focus on the most important, highly relevant facts thanks to a, streamlined presentation that allows for more algorithms, tables, diagrams, and images.
• Stay up to date in every area of neurology with significantly revised chapters on stroke, epilepsy, dementia, and MS, and more drug dosing information regarding inpatient care.
• Consult this high-yield handbook by clinical presentation, such as coma, stroke, headaches, and seizures, or by special topic, such as neuroimaging, behavioral neurology, and sleep medicine.
• Learn from neurology residents and beginning neurology fellows in collaboration with attending neurologists at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Table of Contents

1. Contributing Authors
2. Reviewers
3. Preface
4. Neurologic Emergencies: Quick Reference
5. Lesion Localization In Clinical Neurology
6. Neuroimaging
7. Vascular Neurology
8. Neurocritical Care
9. Interventional Neurology
10. Seizures, Epilepsy, and EEG
11. Delirium
12. Poisons and Vitamin Deficiencies
13. Rapidly Progressive Dementia
14. Dementia
15. Behavioral Neurology
16. Movement Disorders
17. Meningitis, Encephalitis, and Brain Abscesses
18. Neurologic Infectious Diseases
19. Headache
20. Central Nervous System Vasculitis
21. Pain
22. Dizziness and Deafness
23. Demyelinating Diseases Of The Central Nervous System
24. Spine and Spinal Cord Diseases
25. Motor Neuron Disease
26. Peripheral Neuropathy
27. Radiculopathy and Plexopathy
28. Neuromuscular Junction Disorders
29. Myopathy
30. Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
31. Neuro-Rheumatology
32. Neuro-Oncology
33. Sleep Medicine
34. Pregnancy Neurology
35. Neuro-Ophthalmology
36. Index

Author Biography

M. Brandon Westover MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts