This innovative textbook is modelled on problem-based learning. It bridges the gap between academic neuroanatomy and clinical neurology and effectively takes the reader from the classroom to the clinic, so that learning can be applied in practice.

This second edition has been updated and expanded to include many more clinical cases within both the book and the accompanying Wweb site. Significant additions include

• abbreviated presentation of the history and neurologic examination of all the cases on the web site (now numbering over 50) within the text at the end of each of the clinical chapters.
• new ‘maps’ — visual representations of the clinical motor, sensory and reflex findings.
• the web site further expands the cases – presenting them in detail, and providing an ‘expert’ commentary to discuss the reasoning for the localization and etiological diagnosis.

This book and the associated Web site will be of practical value to all the professionals who deal with people who have neurological conditions, as well as being invaluable to medical students and residents. This includes physiatrists (rehabilitation medicine specialists), physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists, and nurses who specialize in the care of neurological patients. We think that this text will also be of value for family physicians and specialists in internal medicine and pediatrics, all of whom must differentiate between organic pathology of the nervous system and other conditions.

Dr. Walter J. Hendelman is a Canadian born and raised in Montreal. He did his undergraduate studies at McGill University in science with honours in psychology, where he studied under Dr. Donald Hebb, who is now recognized for his “cell assembly” theory, explaining how the brain manages information. He then proceeded to do his medical studies also at McGill. Following a year of internship and a subsequent year of pediatric medicine in Montreal, Dr. Hendelman chose the path of brain research and academia.

Postdoctoral studies followed in the emerging field of developmental neuroscience, using the “new” techniques of nerve tissue culture at the Pasadena Foundation for Medical Research. These studies continued, including electron microscopy, at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City; Dr. Richard Bunge was his research mentor and his neuroanatomy mentor was Dr. Malcolm Carpenter, author of the well-known textbook Human Neuroanatomy.

Contents

Chapter 1: Synopsis of the Nervous System
Chapter 2: Neurological Examination
Chapter 3: Clinical Problem Solving
Chapter 4: Fifi
Chapter 5: Cletus
Chapter 6: Ernesto
Chapter 7: Bernie
Chapter 8: Etienne
Chapter 9: Cheryl
Chapter 10: Patty
Chapter 11: Didi
Chapter 12: Armand
Chapter 13: Mickey
Chapter 14: Neurorehabilitation
Chapter 15: Ethics and Neurology