"The Pocket Companion to Neurology in Clinical Practice, 4th Edition" is a rewritten, condensed version of all the material in the new fourth edition of "Neurology in Clinical Practice". The content has been reworked to provide a portable, quick-access handbook to key clinical information. In many cases, large portions of the text in the 2 volumes have been condensed into tables. This companion is also be available in PDA format, and can be purchased as a book and PDA package (ISBN 0750675144).
Table of Contents:
I. APPROACH TO DIAGNOSIS OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE 1 . Episodic Impairment of Consciousness, Falls, and Drop Attacks 2 . Delirium, Stupor, and Coma 3. Intellectual and Memory Impairments 4. Behavior and Personality Disturbances, Depression, and Psychosis 5. Apraxia and Agnosia 6. Language Disorders 7. Dysphagia in Neurological Practice 8. Disturbances of Vision 9. Eye Movement, Pupillary, and Eyelid Disorders 10. Dizziness, Vertigo, Hearing Loss, and Tinnitus 11. Disturbances of Taste and Smell 12. Cranial and Facial Pain 13. Brainstem Syndromes 14. Gait Disorders 15. Hemiplegia and Monoplegia 16. Paraplegia and Spinal Cord Syndromes 17. Proximal, Distal, and Generalized Weakness 18. Muscle Pain and Cramps 19. The Floppy Infant 20. Sensory Abnormalities of the Limbs, Trunk, and Face 21. Sexual and Sphincter Disturbances 22. Arm and Neck Pain 23. Lower Back and Lower Limb Pain II. THE NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS 24. Neurological Complications of Systemic Disease 25. Trauma of the Nervous System 26. Vascular Diseases of the Nervous System 27. Cancer and the Nervous System 28. Infections of the Nervous System 29. Multiple Sclerosis and Other Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases of the Central Nervous System 30. Anoxic and Ischemic Encephalopathies 31. Toxic and Metabolic Encephalopathies 32. Deficiency Diseases of the Nervous System 33. Effects of Toxins and Physical Agents on the Nervous System 34. Brain Edema and Disorders of Cerebrospinal Fluid Circulation 35. Developmental Disorders of the Nervous System 36. Developmental Disabilities 37. Inborn Errors of Metabolism of the Nervous System 38. Mitochondrial Disorders 39 Chanellopathies 40. Neurocutaneous Syndromes 41. The Dementias <