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How to Think Like a Neurologist flips the neurology educational narrative on its head and attempts to lift the veil of neurophobia to show how neurologists use critical thinking and clinical reasoning to diagnose neurologic diseases. Whereas most case-based textbooks focus on the diseases of the cases themselves, the intent of the book is to teach the process, not the end result. By the end of the book, readers will be empowered with a foundation they can apply in their own clinical practice.
List of contents
- Introduction to Clinical Reasoning in Neurology
- Case 1: Right basal ganglia infarct
- Case 2: Multifocal motor neuropathy
- Case 3: Varicella zoster cavernous sinus syndrome
- Case 4: Pituitary macroadenoma
- Case 5: Paraneoplastic cerebellitis
- Case 6: Dorsal root ganglionopathy
- Case 7: TTR amyloidosis
- Case 8: Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
- Case 9: Anterior spinal artery infarct
- Case 10: Bickerstaff encephalitis
- Case 11: HIV encephalopathy
- Case 12: Susac syndrome
- Case 13: Artery of Percheron infarct
- Case 14: Sporadic fatal insomnia
- Case 15: Intravascular lymphoma
- Case 16: HMG CoA reductase myopathy
- Case 17: West Nile encephalitis
- Case 18: Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration
- Case 19: Tuberculoma
- Case 20: CADASIL
About the author
Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Texas at Austin
Summary
How to Think Like a Neurologist flips the neurology educational narrative on its head and attempts to lift the veil of neurophobia to show how neurologists use critical thinking and clinical reasoning to diagnose neurologic diseases.
This book aims to provide a practical representation of the modern-day practice of medicine, where the good clinical neurologist is no longer seen as somebody who somehow carries encyclopedic knowledge of every medical condition. Rather, they appropriately recognize and categorize findings, and then, having narrowed the possibilities, they do the necessary additional research in order to appropriately diagnose and treat the patient.
This case-based volume focuses not on the diseases themselves, but rather on the clinical methods used to identify neurologic diseases, and the method is disarmingly simple. The cases in this book are a fascinating collection of oddities and rarities, but the diseases themselves in this book are merely the vessel through which clinical reasoning is taught. By the end of the book, readers are empowered with a foundation they can apply in their own clinical practice.
