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The clearest, most concise coverage of one of the most complex topics in medicine-updated with the latest advances in the fieldDoody's Core Titles for 2023!Clinical Neurology, Eleventh Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of basic and clinical neurology in a concise, digestible format. It links clinical neuroscience to current approaches for accurately diagnosing and effectively treating neurologic disorders. Covering all the advances in molecular biology and genetics, this popular guide emphasizes history-taking and neurologic examination as the cornerstones of diagnosis. All information is thoroughly up-to-date and presented as a practice-oriented approach to neurology based on the patient's presenting symptoms or signs.
Features:
- 350+ tables and figures
- Chapter outlines providing overview of each topic
- Treatment protocols reflecting the most recent advances in the field
- Step-by-step review of the neurologic examination
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1. NeurologicHistory & ExaminationNeurologic examination ofsphincter function
Chapter 2. InvestigativeStudiesNeuromuscular imaging studiesUpdate on ultrasonography forneuromuscular diagnosis
Chapter 3. ComaIntroductionRole of prefrontal cortex in consciousness
Causes of comaSpontaneous intracranialhypotension as a cause of coma
Persistent vegetative stateNew imaging insights intopersistent vegetative & minimally conscious states
Treatment of traumatic vegetative &minimally conscious states with amantadine
Chapter 4. ConfusionalStatesDrugsSerotonin syndrome
Electrolyte disordersAntidepressant-inducedhyponatremia
Endocrine & metabolic disordersMechanisms of impairedhypoglycemia sensing in treated diabetes
Nutritional disordersFurosemide-induced thiaminedeficiency
Organ system failureICU delirium
Postoperative cognitivedysfunction
Meningitis, encephalitis & sepsisMechanism of
N. meningitidis vascular spread
Dysregulated host inflammatoryresponse in tuberculous meningitis
CSF findings in HIV-infectedpatients with tuberculous meningitis
Tick-borne encephalitis & (re-emergent)yellow fever
Nipah virus encephalitis
Updated diagnostic testing forviral encephalitis
New recommendation on empiricaltreatment of toxoplasmosis in AIDS
Fexinidazole for treatment of Africantrypanosomiasis
Mechanism of meningeal invasion inleukemia
Chapter 5. Dementia& Amnestic DisordersIntroductionSomatic neuronal mutations in aging and neurodegeneration
Differential diagnosisBiomarker-based diagnostic algorithms for dementia syndromes
NeurodegenerativeproteinopathiesTau folding in Alzheimer vs. Pickdisease
Tau-disrupted nucleocytoplasmictransport in Alzheimer disease pathogenesis
Contrasting mechanisms ofaggregate toxicity in neurodegeneration
Herpes simplex virus infection andAlzheimer disease
Inflammation in Alzheimer diseasepathogenesis
Meningeal lymphatics (glymphatics)in Alzheimer disease pathogenesis
Blood pressure and risk of Alzheimerdisease
Relation between epilepsy anddementia
Exercise training in dementia
Sex differences in Alzheimerdisease
Spatial navigation deficits asearly signs of Alzheimer disease
Subjective cognitive decline in relationto Alzheimer disease
Update on biomarkers for Alzheimerdisease
Concomitant neurodegenerativeproteinopathies
Update on clinical trials oftreatments for Alzheimer disease (eg, solanezumab, verubecestat)
Clinical and pathologicalcorrelates of primary progressive aphasia variants
New consensus guidelines fordiagnosis & treatment of dementia with Lewy bodies
Skin prions in Creutzfeldt-Jakobdisease infectivity and diagnosis
Other cerebral disordersShunting response to gait vs. dementia in normal pressurehydrocephalus
Normal pressure hydrocephalus vs.neurodegenerative ventriculomegaly
Mild traumatic brain injury & dementia
Systemic disordersSubclinical hyperthyroidism &dementia
PseudodementiaFeatures of memory impairment in depression
Amnestic syndromesUpdate on antibody-mediatedencephalitis antigens & treatment
Chapter 6. Headache& Facial PainMigraineTriptans, SSRIs & serotoninsyndrome
CGRP receptor-blocking monoclonalantibodies (eg, erenumab, fremanezumab)
Prochlorperazine plusdiphenhydramine vs. hydromorphone for IV migraine therapy
Vagus nerve
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