Neurology

This concise thoroughly updated text provides a comprehensive state-of-the art review of neurology and will serve as a highly practical resource for neurology residents and medical students. Emphasizing a practical approach to common neurologic disorders the author blends chapters that cover the evaluation of specific complaints (confusion dizziness and vertigo visual loss headache and facial pain) with others that focus on particular disorders (Parkinsonism multiple sclerosis dementia). Noting the core practice of neurology is largely unchanged from years ago and still largely done at the bedside the author emphasizes the importance of acquiring expertise in the time-tested classical techniques of history taking directed examination and localization. Toward that the author encourages a focus on the key clinical pathways for diagnosis and management. A wide range of clinical pearls are provided and the diagrams and illustrations are well-designed and comprehensible as are the clinical images (EEGs CT MRI) which provide excellent examples of a variety of neurologic disorders. The discussions and algorithms offered are evidence-based and state-of-the-art.  Importantly the author discusses a range of breakthroughs in the treatment of almost every disorder with new medications available to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis epilepsy multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease among others. Concise and well-written Neurology: A Clinician’s Approach 3rd Edition is an invaluable resource that will again serve as a very useful gold-standard resource for trainees.