Pocket Neurology

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.

• 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.

CONTENT

1. Neurologic emergencies: quick reference   
2. Lesion localization in clinical neurology 
3. Neuroimaging   
4. Vascular neurology
5. Neurocritical care    
6. Interventional neurology
7. Seizures, epilepsy, and eeg  
8. Delirium    
9. Poisons and vitamin deficiencies
10. Rapidly progressive dementia      
11. Dementia  
12. Behavioral neurology        
13. Movement disorders 
14. Meningitis, encephalitis, and brain abscesses        
15. Neurologic infectious diseases  
16. Headache 
17. Central nervous system vasculitis     
18. Pain    
19. Dizziness and deafness        
20. Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system          
21. Spine and spinal cord diseases    
22. Motor neuron disease          
23. Peripheral neuropathy        
24. Radiculopathy and plexopathy  
25. Neuromuscular junction disorders    
26. Myopathy
27. Nerve conduction studies and electromyography        
28. Neuro-rheumatology
29. Neuro-oncology         
30. Sleep medicine   
31. Pregnancy neurology         
32. Neuro-ophthalmology        

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts