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Main description:
Now celebrating over 10 years of success - Crash Course has been specially devised to help you get through your exams with ease.
Completely revised throughout, the new edition of Crash Course is perfectly tailored to meet your needs by providing everything you need to know in one place. Clearly presented in a tried and trusted, easy-to-use, format, each book in the series gives complete coverage of the subject in a no-nonsense, user-friendly fashion.
Commencing with 'Learning Objectives', each chapter guides you succinctly through the topic, giving full coverage of the curriculum whilst avoiding unnecessary and often confusing detail. Each chapter is also supported by a full artwork programme, and features the ever popular 'Hints and Tips' boxes as well as other useful aide-mémoires. All volumes contain an up-to-date self-assessment section which allows you to test your knowledge and hone your exam skills.
Authored by students or junior doctors - working under close faculty supervision - each volume has been prepared by someone who has recently been in the exam situation and so relates closely to your needs. So whether you need to get out of a fix or aim for distinction Crash Course is for you!!
Contents:
Part 1: The Patient Presents With.
1. Disorders of higher cerebral function
2. Disturbances of consciousness
3. Headache
4. Disorders of smell and taste
5. Visual impairment
6. Disorders of the pupils and eye
movements
7. Facial sensory loss and weakness
8. Deafness, tinnitus, dizziness and
vertigo
9. Dysarthria, dysphonia and dysphagia
10. Cerebellar dysphonia and dysphagia
11. Movement disorders
12. Limb weakness
13. Limb sensory symptoms
14. Disorders of gait
Part 11: Diseases and Disorders
15. Dementia
16. Epilepsy
17. Headache and cranial facial pain
18. Parkinson's disease, other
extrapyramidal disorders, and myoclonus
19. Cranial nerve lesions
20. Diseases affecting the spinal cord
(myelopathy)
21. Motor neuron disease
22. Radiculopathy and plexopathy
23. Disorders of the peripheral nerves
24. Disorders of the neuromuscular junction
25. Disorders of skeletal muscle
26. Vascular diseases of the nervous system
27. Intracranial tumours
28. Infections of the nervous system
29. Multiple sclerosis
30. Systemic disease and the nervous system
31. The effects of vitamin deficiencies and
toxins on the nervous system
32. Hereditary conditions affecting the
nervous system
Part 111: History, Examination and Common
Investigations
33. Taking a history
34. The neurological examination
35. How to write a clerking
36. Further investigations
Part IV: Self-assessment
Multiple-choice questions (MCQs)
Short-answer questions (SAQs)
Extended-matching questions (EMQs)
Patient-management problems (PMPs)
MCQ answers
SAQ answers
EMQ answers
PMP answers
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Elsevier (Mosby)
Publication date: August, 2013
Pages: 320
Weight: 652g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Medical Study and Teaching Aids, Neurology, Neurosurgery
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