Neurologic Localization and Diagnosis

Part 1: Approach to Neurologic Diagnosis
1.1. Overview of Neurologic Diagnosis
1.2. Taking a History
1.3. The Neurologic Exam
1.4. The Medical Exam in Neurologic Patients
1.5. Synthesis of the Assessment and Plan
1.6. Documenting Our Findings
Part 2: Clinical Neuroscience
2.1. Overview
2.2. Cerebral Hemispheres
2.3. Basal Ganglia and Thalamus
2.4. Brainstem, Cerebellum, and Cranial Nerves
2.5. Spinal Cord
2.6. Peripheral Nerves, Neuromuscular Junction, and Muscle
Part 3: Localization by Anatomy
3.1. Cerebrum
3.2. Basal Ganglia and Thalamus
3.3. Cerebellum
3.4. Brainstem and Cranial Nerves
3.5. Spinal Cord
3.6. Peripheral Nervous System
3.7. Neuromuscular Junction and Muscle
Part 4: Localization by Dysfunction
4.1. Mental Status
4.2. Brainstem and Cranial Nerve Dysfunction
4.3. Motor
4.4. Sensory
4.5. Coordination
4.6. GAIT
4.7. Reflex Abnormalities
4.8. Pain
4.9. Multisystem Disorders
4.10. Psychiatric Disorders
Part 5: Diagnosis of Suspected Disorders
5.1. Disorders of Mental Status
5.2. Speech and Language Disorders
5.3. Stroke and other Vascular Disorders
5.4. Seizure Disorders
5.5. Neuromuscular Disorders
5.6. Headache
5.7. Movement Disorders
5.8. Visual Disorders
5.9. Autoimmune Disorders
5.10. Infectious Diseases
5.11. Tumors with Neurologic Involvement and remote effects of tumors
5.12. Functional Disorders
References

By Eli E. Zimmerman, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Director of Medical Student Education, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Martin A. Samuels, MD, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA U.S.A. ; Howard S. Kirshner, MD, Professor of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN U.S.A. and Karl E Misulis, MD, PhD, Professor of Clinical Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee