Adams and Victor’s Principles of Neurology is truly the classic text in its discipline — a celebrated volume that guides clinicians to an in-depth understanding of the key aspects of neurologic disease, including both clinical and new scientific data. This meticulously revised and updated text remains the masterwork in its field, and the most readable reference available. Within its pages, you will find a disciplined presentation of clinical data and lucid descriptions of underlying disease processes.

Some of the features that have made this resource so renowned:

• The most cohesive and consistent approach to clinical management – acclaimed as the most readable book in the literature
• A scholarly approach that gives readers a comprehensive overview of every neurologic illness
• Unmatched coverage of signs and symptoms
• A focus on the full range of therapeutic options available to treat neurologic diseases, including drug therapy and rehabilitation methods
• Coverage of the most exciting discoveries and hypotheses of modern neuroscience that bear on and explain neurologic disease
• Puts the latest scientific discovery into a larger clinical context
• An evenness of style and a uniform approach to subject matter across disciplines that allows a quick and easy review of each topic and condition
• A rich, full-color presentation that includes many high-quality illustrations

The Eleventh Edition is enhanced by new coverage of :

• Interventional therapies for acute ischemic stroke
• Novel immunotherapies used to treat inflammatory and neoplastic conditions, and neurotoxicities associated with these drugs
• New drugs to treat epilepsy and multiple sclerosis
• Update of genetics of inherited metabolic disease
• Current understanding of the genetics of primary nervous system malignancies and their bearing on treatment

Contents

۱ Approach to the Patient With Neurologic Disease
۲ Diagnostic Testing in Neurologic Disease
۳ Paralysis and Weakness
۴ Disorders of Movement and Posture
۵ Ataxia and Disorders of Cerebellar Function
۶ Disorders of Stance and Gait
۷ Pain
۸ Disorders of Mon-Painful Somatic Sensation
۹ Headache and Other Craniofacial Pains
۱۰ Pain in the Backr Neck, and Extremities
۱۱ Disorders of Smell and Taste
۱۲ Disturbances of Vision
۱۳ Disorders of Ocular Movement and Pupillary Function
۱۴ Deafness, Dizziness, and Disorders of Equilibrium
۱۵ Epilepsy and Other Seizure Disorders
۱۶ Coma and Related Disorders of Consciousness
۱۷ Faintness and Syncope
۱۸ Sleep and Its Abnormalities
۱۹ Delirium and Other Acute Confusional States
۲۰ Dementia,, the Amnesic Syndromer and the Neurology of Intelligence and Memory
۲۱ Neurologic Disorders Caused by Lesions in Specific Parts of the Cerebrum
۲۲ Disorders of Speech and Language
۲۳ Fatigue, Asthenia, Anxiety, and Depression
۲۴ The Limbic Lobes and the Neurology of Emotion
۲۵ Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System, Respiration, and Swallowing
۲۶ The Hypothalamus and Neuroendocrine Disorders
۲۷ Normal Development and Deviations in Development of the Nervous System
۲۸ The Neurology of Aging
۲۹ Disturbances of Cerebrospinal Fluid,Including Hydrocephalus, Pseudotumor Cerebri, and Low-Pressure Syndromes
۳۰ Intracranial Neoplasms and Paraneoplastic Disorders
۳۱ Bacterial, Fungal, Spirochetal, and Parasitic Infections of the Nervous System
۳۲ Viral Infections of the Nervous System and Prion Diseases
۳۳ Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
۳۴ Craniocerebral Trauma
۳۵ Multiple Sclerosis and Other Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases
۳۶ Inherited Metabolic Diseases of the Nervous System
۳۷ Developmental Diseases of the Nervous System
۳۸ Degenerative Diseases of the Nervous System
۳۹ The Acquired Metabolic Disorders of the Nervous System
۴۰ Diseases of the Nervous System Caused by Nutritional Deficiency
۴۱ Disorders of the Nervous System Caused by Alcohol, Drugs, Toxins, and Chemical Agents
۴۲ Diseases of the Spinal Cord
۴۳ Diseases of the Peripheral Neves
۴۴ Diseases of the Cranial Neves
۴۵ Diseases of Muscle
۴۶ Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction, Myotonias, and Persistent Muscle Fiber Activity
۴۷ Anxiety Disorders, Hysteria, and Personality Disorders
۴۸ Depression and Bipolar Disease
۴۹ Schizophrenia, Delusional, and Paranoid States