Main description:

Mount Sinai Expert Guides: Neurology provides trainees in neurology with an extremely clinical and accessible handbook covering the major neurologic disorders and symptoms, their diagnosis and clinical management.

Perfect as a point–of–care resource on the hospital wards and also as a refresher for board exam preparation, the focus throughout is on providing rapid reference, essential information on each disorder to allow for quick, easy browsing and assimilation of the must–know information. All chapters follow a consistent template including the following features:

• An opening bottom–line/key points section


• Classification, pathogenesis and prevention of disorder


• Evidence–based diagnosis, including relevant algorithms, laboratory and imaging tests, and potential pitfalls when diagnosing a patient


• Disease management including commonly used medications with dosages, management algorithms and how to prevent complications


• How to manage special populations, ie, in pregnancy, children and the elderly


• The very latest evidence–based results, major society guidelines and key external sources to consult

In addition, the book comes with a companion website housing extra features such as case studies with related questions for self–assessment, key patient advice and ICD codes. Each guide also has its own mobile app available for purchase, allowing you rapid access to the key features wherever you may be.

If you′re specialising in neurology and require concise, practical and clinical guidance from one of the world′s leading institutions in this field, then this is the perfect book for you.

Contents:

Contributors xxx

Series foreword xxx

Preface xxx

About the Companion Website xxx

Section 1: Introduction

1 Neurologic history and examination
Stuart Sealfon

2 Neuroradiology
Thomas P. Naidich, Ruby J. Lien, Reade De Leacy

3 Neurophysiologic and other neurodiagnostic tests
Susan Shin , Deborah Horowitz, David M. Simpson

Section 2: Diagnosis of patients with neurologic symptoms

4 Delirium and Coma
Stephen Krieger

5 Episodic collapse, loss of consciousness, seizures
Lara V. Marcuse, Madeline C. Fields

5 Dysphasias, dyspraxias, and dysexecutive syndromes: the non–memory cognitive impairments
Martin Goldstein

7 Memory Loss and Dementia
Sam Gandy

8 Headache
Mark Green

9 Abnormal movements and incoordination
Winona Tse

10 Sleep Disorders, Somnolence, and Fatigue
Charles B Stacy

11 Visual loss and double vision
Janet C Rucker

12 Vertigo, Dizziness and Hearing Loss
Bernard Cohen, Eric Smouha

13 Facial weakness, slurred speech and difficulty swallowing
Hailun Wang, Kenneth Altman

14 Difficulty walking
Ruth H Walker

15 Muscle weakness and paralysis
Rajeev Motiwala

16 Tingling and loss of sensation
Lan Zhou

17 Low back pain and neck pain
Charles B Stacy

18 Suspected spinal cord dysfunction
Aaron Miller

19 Bladder and sexual dysfunction
Steven Weissbart and Jonathan M. Vapnek

Section 3: Neurologic Diseases and Therapeutics

20 Vascular diseases–ischemic stroke, intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral venous thrombosis, arterio–venous malformations
Stanley Tuhrim

21 Neurologic complications of systemic disease
Michelle T. Fabian

22 Neurooncology
Isabelle Germano

23 Multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory diseases
Fred D Lublin

24 Infections of the nervous system
Michael P. Mullen, Geena Varghese

25 Parkinson disease and related disorders
Barbara Kelly Changizi

26 Hyperkinetic movement disorders
Ritesh A. Ramdhani, Steven J. Frucht

27 Alzheimer s disease and frontotemporal dementia
Sam Gandy

28 Cerebellar and brain stem disorders
Florence Ching–Fen Chang, Catherine Cho

29 Inborn errors of metabolism
Shannon E. Babineau

30 Epilepsy
Madeline C. Fields, Lara V. Marcuse, Isabelle Germano

31 Autonomic disorders
Jessica Robinson–Papp

32 Peripheral neuropathies
Raj Motiwala

33 Myopathy
Lan Zhou

34 Neuromuscular junction disorders
Mark A. Sivak

35 Motor neuron disease
Mark A. Sivak

36 Metabolic encephalopathy, hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy, and brain death
Mandip S. Dhamoon

37 Pain disorders
Charles B Stacy

38 Migraine and other headache syndromes
Mark W. Green

39 Sleep disorders
Steven H. Feinsilver

40 Neurocritical care
Errol L. Gordon

41 Trauma
Jeremy M Steinberger, Margaret Pain, Jamie S. Ullman

42 The postoperative Care of Neurosurgical Patients
Justin Mascitelli, Asha Iyer, Joshua Bederson

Index