Featuring a superb compilation of chapters related to neurology derived from Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, Nineteenth Edition (including content from the acclaimed Harrison’s DVD, now available here in print), this concise, full-color clinical companion delivers the latest knowledge in the field backed by the scientific rigor and authority that have defined Harrison’s.  You will find 66 chapters from more than 90 renowned editors and contributors in a carry-anywhere presentation that is ideal for the classroom, clinic, ward, or exam/certification preparation.

Features:

• High-yield board review questions make this text ideal for keeping current and preparing for the boards

• Current, complete coverage of clinically important topics in neurology, including Clinical Manifestations of Neurologic Diseases, Diseases of the Nervous System, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Psychiatric Disorders, and Alcoholism and Drug Dependency

• Extensively updated to highlight recent advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of neurologic and psychiatric disorders; expanded coverage of neurodegenerative diseases; extensively revised chapter on cerebrovascular diseases; the latest breakthroughs in sleep disorders and migraine

• Integration of pathophysiology with clinical management

• Enhanced by numerous neuroimaging figures throughout the text and an expanded atlas of neuroimaging findings

• Handy appendix of Laboratory Values of Clinical Importance

About the Author

Stephen Hauser, MD (San Francisco, CA) Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology, University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine.

Andrew Josephson, MD (San Francisco, CA) Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology, University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine.

Contents

۱ Approach to the Patient with Neurologic Disease
۲ The Neurologic Screening Exam
۳ Video Atlas of the Detailed Neurologic Examination
۴ Neuroimaging in Neurologic Disorders
۵ Atlas of Neuroimaging
۶ Electrodiagnostic Studies o Nervous System Disorders: EEG, Evoked Potentials, and EMG
۷ Technique o Lumbar Puncture
۸ Pain: Pathophysiology and Management
۹ Headache
۱۰ Back and Neck Pain
۱۱ Syncope
۱۲ Dizziness and Vertigo
۱۳ Fatigue
۱۴ Neurologic Causes o Weakness and Paralysis
۱۵ Numbness, ingling, and Sensory Loss
۱۶ Gait and Balance Disorders
۱۷ Video Library o Gait Disorders
۱۸ Confusion and Delirium
۱۹ Coma
۲۰ Examination o the Comatose Patient
۲۱ Dementia
۲۲ Aphasia, Memory Loss, and Other Focal Cerebral Disorders
۲۳ Primary Progressive Aphasia, Memory Loss, and Other Focal Cerebral Disorders
۲۴ Sleep Disorders
۲۵ Disorders o the Eye
۲۶ Use of the Hand-Held Ophthalmoscope
۲۷ Video Library o Neuro-Ophthalmology
۲۸ Disorders o Smell and aste
۲۹ Disorders o Hearing
۳۰ Biology o Neurologic Diseases
۳۱ Seizures and Epilepsy
۳۲ Cerebrovascular Diseases
۳۳ Neurologic Critical Care, Including Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy, and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
۳۴ Migraine and Other Primary Headache Disorders
۳۵ Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias
۳۶ Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders
۳۷ Ataxic Disorders
۳۸ Classi cation o the Spinocerebellar Ataxias
۳۹ Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Other Motor Neuron Diseases
۴۰ Prion Diseases
۴۱ Disorders o the Autonomic Nervous System
۴۲ rigeminal Neuralgia, Bell’s Palsy, and Other Cranial Nerve Disorders
۴۳ Diseases o the Spinal Cord
۴۴ Concussion and Other raumatic Brain Injuries
۴۵ Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Diseases
۴۶ Meningitis, Encephalitis, Brain Abscess, and Empyema
۴۷ Chronic and Recurrent Meningitis
۴۸ HIV Neurology
۴۹ Primary and Metastatic umors o the Nervous System
۵۰ Paraneoplastic Neurologic Syndromes and Autoimmune Encephalitis
۵۱ Anterior Pituitary umor Syndromes
۵۲ Disorders o the Neurohypophysis
۵۳ Peripheral Neuropathy
۵۴ Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Other Immune-Mediated Neuropathies
۵۵ Myasthenia Gravis and Other Diseases of the Neuromuscular Junction
۵۶ Muscular Dystrophies and Other Muscle Diseases
۵۷ Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Inclusion Body Myositis.
۵۸ Special Issues in Inpatient Neurologic Consultation
۵۹ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
۶۰ Biology o Psychiatric Disorders
۶۱ Mental Disorders
۶۲ Neuropsychiatric Illnesses in War Veterans
۶۳ Alcohol and Alcoholism
۶۴ Opioid-Related Disorders