Introduction to clinical neurology / Douglas J. Gelb.

Author
Gelb, Douglas James, 1957- [Browse]
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Book
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English
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4th ed.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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xxii, 504 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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    Notes
    Includes index.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Where's the Lesion?
    • I. Sample Localization Problems
    • II. The Game
    • III. The Rules
    • IV. The Play: The Long Version
    • V. The Play: The Abbreviated Version
    • VI. Rules for Speed Play
    • 2. The Neurologic Examination
    • I. More Localization Problems
    • II. General Comments on the Neurologic Examination
    • III. How to Do the Neurologic Examination
    • A. Mental Status Examination
    • B. Cranial Nerve Examination
    • C. Motor Examination
    • D. Reflex Examination
    • E. Sensory Examination
    • IV. Additional Comments on Terminology and Examination Technique
    • V. Interpretation of the Neurologic Examination
    • VI. Modifications of the Neurologic Examination
    • A. Screening Neurologic Examination
    • B. Examination of Stuporous or Comatose Patients
    • VII. Discussion of Localization Problems
    • 3. What's the Lesion? / James W. Albers
    • I. Case Histories
    • II. Beyond Localization
    • A. Localization
    • B. Temporal Profile
    • C. Epidemiology
    • III. Etiology
    • A. Degenerative Diseases
    • B. Neoplastic Diseases
    • C. Vascular Diseases
    • D. Inflammatory Diseases
    • E. Toxic and Metabolic Diseases
    • F. Traumatic Diseases
    • G. Congenital and Developmental Diseases
    • IV. Discussion of Case Histories
    • 4. Stroke
    • II. Approach to Stroke
    • III. Background Information
    • A. Definitions
    • B. Classification of Strokes by Etiology
    • C. Pathophysiology
    • IV. Diagnosis
    • A. Clinical Features
    • B. Imaging
    • V. Management of Acute Stroke
    • A. Restoration of Blood Flow in Ischemic Stroke
    • B. Limitation of Deficits
    • C. Rehabilitation
    • VI. Primary Prevention
    • A. Hypertension
    • B. Smoking
    • C. Diabetes
    • D. Dyslipidemia
    • E. Mechanical Heart Valves
    • F. Atrial Fibrillation
    • G. Carotid Stenosis
    • H. Sickle Cell Disease
    • I. Other Factors
    • VII. Secondary Prevention of Ischemic Stroke
    • A. Cardioembolic Disease
    • B. Carotid Stenosis
    • C. Anti-Platelet Medications
    • D. Statin Therapy
    • E. Risk Factor Modification
    • F. Stroke Mechanisms Other Than Cardioembolism and Carotid Stenosis
    • G. Determining the Underlying Mechanism of Stroke
    • VIII. Secondary Prevention of Cerebral Hemorrhage
    • IX. Discussion of Case Histories
    • 5. Seizures
    • II. Approach to Seizures
    • B. Clinical Characteristics of Seizures
    • C. Seizures vs. Epilepsy
    • D. Epilepsy Syndromes
    • E. Electroencephalography
    • F. Pathophysiology of Seizures and Epilepsy
    • A. Characterizing the Presenting Spell
    • B. Identifying Prior Spells
    • C. Recognizing Spells that are Not Seizures
    • V. Determining the Cause of Seizures
    • A. Provoked Seizures
    • B. Epilepsy
    • C. The Diagnostic Evaluation
    • VI. Management of Seizures and Epilepsy
    • A. Patients with Seizures but No Proven Epilepsy
    • B. Patients with Epilepsy
    • C. Patient Education (for Patients with Isolated Seizures or Epilepsy)
    • D. Restrictions (for Patients with Isolated Seizures or Epilepsy)
    • VII. Special Clinical Problems
    • A. Status Epilepticus
    • B. Seizures and Pregnancy
    • C. Refractory Seizures
    • VIII. Discussion of Case Histories
    • 6. Neuromuscular Disorders / Douglas J. Gelb and Mark B. Bromberg
    • II. Approach to Neuromuscular Diseases
    • A. Functional Divisions of the Peripheral Nervous System
    • B. Proximal-to-Distal Organization of the Peripheral Nervous System
    • C. Electrodiagnostic and Other Laboratory Studies
    • IV. Specific Neuromuscular Diseases
    • A. Motor Neuron Diseases
    • B. Nerve Root Disorders (Radiculopathies)
    • C. Plexus Disorders (Plexopathies)
    • D. Peripheral Nerve Disorders (Neuropathies)
    • E. Neuromuscular Junction Disorders
    • F. Muscle Disorders (Myopathies)
    • V. Symptomatic Treatment
    • A. Emergency Measures
    • B. Non-Urgent Measures: Motor Symptoms
    • C. Non-Urgent Measures: Sensory Symptoms
    • VI. Discussion of Case Histories
    • 7. Dementing Illnesses / Douglas J. Gelb and Linda M. Selwa
    • II. Approach to Dementing Illnesses
    • A. Is It Abnormal?
    • B. Is It Dementia?
    • C. Is It Progressive?
    • D. Is There a Potentially Reversible Cause?
    • E. Which Diagnosis Is Most Likely?
    • III. Primary Dementing Illnesses
    • A. Alzheimer's Disease
    • B. Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB)
    • C. Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)
    • D. Vascular Dementia
    • E. Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)
    • F. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
    • G. Other Neurologic Diseases That Produce Dementia
    • 8. Movement Disorders / Douglas J. Gelb and Linda M. Selwa
    • II. Approach to Movement Disorders
    • A. Anatomic Definitions
    • B. Clinical Definitions
    • C. Classification of Movement Disorders
    • IV. Specific Movement Disorders
    • A. Essential Tremor
    • B. Parkinson's Disease
    • C. Other Parkinsonian Syndromes
    • D. Hereditary Ataxias
    • E. Huntington's Disease
    • F. Tardive Dyskinesia
    • G. Dystonias
    • H. Wilson's Disease
    • I. Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome
    • V. Discussion of Case Histories
    • 9. Sleep Disorders
    • II. Approach to Sleep Disorders
    • B. Sleep Physiology
    • C. Diagnostic Tests
    • D. Classification of Sleep Disorders
    • IV. Trouble Staying Awake
    • A. Insufficient Sleep
    • B. Sleep Apnea
    • C. Narcolepsy
    • D. Other Causes of Hypersomnolence
    • V. Trouble Sleeping
    • A. Sleep-Onset Delay
    • B. Early Morning Awakening
    • C. Sleep Fragmentation
    • D. Sleep State Misperception
    • VI. Abnormal Behavior During Sleep
    • A. Nonrapid Eye Movement (NREM) Sleep Parasomnias
    • B. Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep Parasomnias
    • VII. Discussion of Case Histories
    • 10. Multifocal Central Nervous System Disorders
    • II. Approach to Multifocal Disorders
    • III. Focal Diseases with Multifocal Propagation
    • A. Metastatic Cancer
    • B. Central Nervous System Infections
    • IV. Inherently Multifocal Diseases
    • A. Multiple Sclerosis
    • B. Connective Tissue Diseases
    • C. Sarcoidosis
    • D. Coagulation Disorders
    • 11. Acute Mental Status Changes
    • II. Background Information
    • B. Focal Mental Status Changes vs. Altered Level of Consciousness
    • C. Physiology of Normal and Altered Consciousness
    • III. Approach to Acute Changes in Level of Consciousness
    • A. ABCs: Airway, Breathing, Circulation
    • B. Oxygen, Glucose, Naloxone
    • C. Pupils, Doll's Eyes, Motor Asymmetry
    • D. Other Electrolytes, Renal, Hepatic, Temperature Abnormalities
    • E. Everything Else
    • IV. Special Circumstances
    • A. Head Trauma
    • B. Increased Intracranial Pressure
    • C. Brain Death
    • 12. Headache
    • II. Approach to Headache
    • A. Primary vs. Secondary Headaches
    • B. Pathophysiology of Migraine
    • IV. Headache Emergencies: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Bacterial Meningitis
    • V. Other Secondary Headaches
    • A. Viral Meningitis or Encephalitis
    • B. Fungal or Tuberculous Meningitis
    • C. Mass Lesions
    • D. Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis --
    • E. Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH; Pseudotumor Cerebri)
    • F. Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension
    • G. Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
    • H. Arterial Dissection
    • I. Systemic Conditions
    • J. Secondary Headache Syndromes with Diagnostic Ambiguity
    • VI. Primary Headaches
    • A. Migraine and Tension Headaches
    • B. Cluster Headaches
    • C. Trigeminal Neuralgia
    • D. Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia
    • E. Chronic Paroxysmal Hemicrania and Related Conditions
    • F. Atypical Facial Pain
    • 13. Visual Symptoms
    • B. Overview of the Visual System
    • III. Approach to Visual Symptoms
    • IV. Monocular Vision Loss
    • A. Acute or Subacute Monocular Vision Loss in Young Patients
    • B. Acute or Subacute Monocular Vision Loss in Older Patients
    • V. Transient Vision Loss (Monocular or Binocular)
    • VI. Binocular Vision Loss
    • VII. Diplopia
    • B. Differential Diagnosis and Management
    • 14. Dizziness and Disequilibrium
    • II. Approach to Dizziness
    • III. Light-Headedness (Presyncope)
    • IV. Vertigo
    • B. Differential Diagnosis
    • V. Disequilibrium
    • 15. Back Pain and Neck Pain
    • II. Approach to Back or Neck Pain
    • A. Emergency Situations
    • B. Non-urgent Indications for Surgery
    • III. Specific Conditions Causing Back or Neck Pain
    • A. Musculoskeletal Pain
    • B. Disc Herniation
    • C. Spinal Stenosis
    • 16. Incontinence
    • III. Approach to Incontinence
    • A. Neurologic vs. Urologic Causes of Incontinence
    • B. Central vs. Peripheral Nervous System Causes of Incontinence
    • 17. Pediatric Neurology
    • II. Developmental Considerations
    • III. Hypotonic Infants
    • IV. Developmental Delay and Developmental Regression
    • V. Paroxysmal Symptoms
    • A. Headaches
    • B. Seizures
    • C. Breath-Holding Spells
    • D. Benign Paroxysmal Vertigo
    • VI. Gait Disturbance
    • A. Spasticity
    • B. Weakness
    • C. Ataxia
    • 18. Geriatric Neurology
    • II. Geriatric Issues
    • III. The Neurologic Examination in Normal Aging
    • A. Mental Status
    • B. Cranial Nerves
    • C. Motor System
    • D. Reflexes
    • E. Sensation
    • IV. Common Neurologic Symptoms in the Elderly
    • A. Dizziness
    • B. Gait Disturbance
    • C. Incontinence
    • D. Dementia
    • E. Pain
    • 19. Practice Cases
    • II. Answers.
    ISBN
    • 9780199734849 (alk. paper)
    • 0199734844 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2010011749
    OCLC
    592450891
    RCP
    C - S
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