Practical Approach to the Neurological Patient, 1st Edition. A Clinician’s Guide

• Offers concise, comprehensive content designed to help guide the primary care provider or non-neurologist on how to manage patients with common neurological conditions.
• Covers timely topics such as women’s neurology, neurogenetics, pain neurology, sleep disorders, dementia, and headache (including facial pain).
• Includes Key Points in every chapter, MRI images that show brain lesions, figures and tables throughout, and clinical algorithms to support everyday decision making.
• Features multidisciplinary input from physician authors who are contributors to the American Journal of Medicine, as well as a nurse practitioner and physician associates.
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

CONTENTS

1 The Neurological Examination
2 Introduction to Neuroimaging
3 Introduction to Neurogenetics
4 Neuro-ophthalmology
5 Cerebrovascular Disease
6 Traumatic Brain Injury
7 Encephalopathy
8 Brain and Spine Tumors
9 Infections of the Nervous System
10 Autoimmune Neurologic Disorders
11 Headache
12 Facial Pain and Cranial Neuralgias
13 A Review of Women’s Neurology
14 Parkinson disease and Parkinsonism
15 Dementia
16 Introduction to Neuropsychological Assessment and Intervention
17 Spinal Cord Disorders: Myelopathy
18 Myopathy
19 Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of Peripheral Neuropathy
20 Motor Neuron Disease
21 Demyelinating Disease
22 Autonomic Disorders
23 Gait Disorders
24 Epilepsy
25 Dizziness
26 Sleep Disorders
27 Pain Neurology