Contents
- Front matter
- Chapter 1 Neurological history and examination
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- Chapter 1 Neurological history and examination
- Principles of neurological history taking
- The general examination
- Cranial nerve 1 (olfactory nerve)
- Cranial nerve 2 (optic nerve and visual pathway)
- Cranial nerves 3 (oculomotor), 4 (trochlear), and 6 (abducens)
- Cranial nerves 5 and 7–12
- Examination of the upper and lower limbs
- Bedside cognitive testing, including language
- The mini-mental state examination (MMSE)
- Chapter 2 Neuroanatomy
- Chapter 3 Common clinical presentations
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- Chapter 3 Common clinical presentations
- Loss of consciousness
- Acute vertigo
- Acute headache (thunderclap headache)
- Acute neuromuscular weakness
- Acute focal neurological syndromes
- Spastic paraparesis
- Ataxia
- Acute visual failure
- Coma
- Coma prognosis
- Excessive daytime sleepiness
- Tremor
- Tics
- Chorea and athetosis
- Myoclonus
- Dystonia
- Chapter 4 Neurological disorders
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- Chapter 4 Neurological disorders
- Cerebrovascular disease: stroke
- Management of stroke
- Prevention of ischaemic stroke
- Cerebral venous thrombosis
- Images in cerebrovascular disease
- Dementia: introduction
- Alzheimer's disease
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Other dementias
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD)
- Epilepsy: introduction
- Management of epilepsy
- Women and epilepsy
- Seizures versus dissociative non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD) or pseudoseizures
- Management of status epilepticus
- Headache: migraine—introduction and clinical features
- Migraine: differential diagnosis, investigations, and IHS criteria
- Management of acute migraine: the stepped care regimen
- Management of migraine prophylaxis
- Migraine and women
- Primary short-lasting headaches
- Cluster headache
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH)
- Parkinsonism and Parkinson's disease: introduction
- Clinical features of parkinsonism and PD
- Differential diagnosis of PD and investigation
- Drug-induced parkinsonism
- Medical management of PD
- Surgical treatment of PD
- Management of other problems in PD
- Multiple system atrophy (MSA)
- Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
- Corticobasal degeneration (CBD)
- Peripheral nerve disorders: introduction and clinical approach
- Diagnosis of peripheral nerve disorders
- Investigations in peripheral nerve disorders
- Diabetic neuropathies
- Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS)
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
- Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block (MMN-CB)
- Vasculitic neuropathy
- Muscle disorders: classification and features
- Muscle disorders: investigations
- Dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and inclusion body myositis
- Motor neuron disease: introduction and clinical features
- Motor neuron disease: investigations and management
- Multiple sclerosis: introduction and clinical features
- Multiple sclerosis: investigations and diagnosis
- Multiple sclerosis: management
- Myasthenia gravis: introduction, clinical features, and investigations
- Myasthenia gravis: management
- Paraneoplastic disorders: introduction
- Paraneoplastic syndromes: central nervous system
- Paraneoplastic syndromes: peripheral nervous system
- Paraneoplastic syndromes: investigations and management
- Vertigo, dizziness, and unsteadiness: introduction
- Dizziness, unsteadiness, or ‘off balance’: neurological causes
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
- Dizzyness, unsteadiness, or ‘off balance’: non-neurological causes
- Neurogenetic disorders: introduction
- Hereditary ataxias
- Genetic neuropathies
- Inherited myopathies
- Myotonic dystrophy (MD)
- Inherited movement disorders
- Inherited mitochondrial disorders
- Inherited dementias
- Inherited neurocutaneous syndromes
- Hereditary metabolic diseases
- Infectious disease: bacterial meningitis
- Viral encephalitis
- Neurology of HIV/AIDS: introduction
- Neurological disorders due to HIV
- Opportunistic infections associated with HIV
- MRI images in infectious diseases
- Lumbar puncture
- Intravenous immunoglobulin (IV Ig)
- Diagnosis of brainstem death
- Chapter 5 Neurosurgery
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- Chapter 5 Neurosurgery
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH)
- Imaging of SAH: examples
- Spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage (ICH)
- Imaging of ICH: examples
- Cerebral aneurysms
- Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVM)
- Cavernous haemangioma (cavernoma) and developmental venous anomaly (DVA)
- Dural arteriovenous fistulae (dAVF)
- Hydrocephalus
- Complications of shunts
- Intracranial tumours
- Intracranial tumours: management of specific tumours
- Imaging of intracranial tumours: examples
- Imaging of spinal tumours examples
- Head injuries (HI)
- Management of specific head injuries
- Imaging of head injuries: examples
- Spinal injuries
- Imaging spinal injuries: examples
- Degenerative spinal conditions: cervical spine
- Degenerative spinal conditions: thoracic and lumbar spine
- Imaging of degenerative spinal conditions: examples
- Developmental abnormalities
- Imaging of developmental abnormalities: examples
- Syringomyelia
- Chapter 6 Clinical neurophysiology
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- Chapter 6 Clinical neurophysiology
- Introduction
- Electroencephalography (EEG): introduction
- EEG: use and abuse
- EEG: abnormal rhythms
- EEG and epilepsy
- EEG and diffuse cerebral dysfunction
- EEG in the intensive care unit
- Technical summary of nerve conduction studies (NCS)
- Peripheral nerve disorders: NCS abnormalities
- Technical summary of needle electromyography (EMG)
- Needle EMG: patterns of abnormality
- NCS and needle EMG findings in myopathies and motor axonal loss
- NCS and needle EMG findings in Guillain–Barré syndrome
- NCS and needle EMG findings in neuromuscular transmission disorders
- Visual evoked responses (VERs)
- Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs)
- Brainstem auditory evoked responses (BAERs)
- Normal values in clinical neurophysiology
- Chapter 7 Neuroradiology
- Appendix
