Insights into Clinical Neurology

Description:

This illuminating book clarifies controversial topics in challenging and often confusing areas of neurology for all who are interested in clinical neuroscience. It provides an organized approach to neurological conditions such as amnesic syndrome, aphasia, agnosia and apraxia, it includes previously unpublished data on grasp reflex and Wernicke disease is presented. Written by an internationally renowned author, the book draws on his extensive personal experience to orient neurological clinicians to a variety of conditions by putting less accessible literature into context with recent advances and information from interviews undertaken throughout his career. This book will appeal to general and specialist neurologists, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants and those training to specialise in neurology.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Amnesic Syndrome

Chapter 2 Aphasia, Apraxia, and Agnosia

Chapter 3 Spurious Symptoms and Behaviors

Chapter 4 Hallucinations

Chapter 5 Grasping and the Grasp Reflex

Chapter 6 Asterixis

Chapter 7 Discussion of the Upper Motor Neuron Syndrome

Chapter 8 Some Aspects of the Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome

Chapter 9 The Limbic System

Chapter 10 Vibration Sensation, the Posterior Columns, and Related Topics

Chapter 11 Transneuronal Effects

Chapter 12 Spinal Nerve Roots

Chapter 13 Ischemic Hypoxic Encephalopathy

Chapter 14 The Liver–Brain Relationship in Wilson Disease

Chapter 15 Wernicke Disease

Chapter 16 Delayed Neurologic Disorders after Toxic or Metabolic Insults

Chapter 17 Transolfactory Spread in the Pathogenesis of Meningoencephalitis

Chapter 18 Neurologic Disorders in Endocarditis

Chapter 19 Secondary Abscess Formation in Primary Brain Lesions

Chapter 20 Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy: The Early Years

Index