4.1 Fundamentals 4.2 Imaging Studies 4.3 Electrophysiologic Studies 4.4 Ultrasonography (Neurosonography) 4.5 Other Ancillary Studies Stay Alert! The patient, a 72-year-old woman who worked at the checkout counter in a family-owned grocery store, consulted her…
7.1 Overview 7.2 Spinal Cord Trauma 7.3 Slowly Progressive Spinal Cord Compression 7.4 Spinal Cord Ischemia and Hemorrhage 7.5 Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases of the Spinal Cord 7.6 Diseases Mainly Affecting the Long Tracts of the…
15.1 Structure and Function of Muscle 15.2 General Symptomatology 15.3 Muscular Dystrophies 15.4 Myotonic Syndromes and Periodic Paralysis Syndromes 15.5 Metabolic Myopathies 15.6 Myositis 15.7 Other Diseases Affecting Muscle 15.8 Disturbances of Neuromuscular Transmission—Myasthenic Syndromes Going Weak An…
Overview Roughly 2 per 1,000 persons per year sustain an ischemic stroke; the incidence of stroke rises markedly with age. Women are less commonly affected than men up to age…
14.1 Fundamentals 14.2 Painful Syndromes of the Head and Neck 14.3 Painful Syndromes of the Face 14.4 Painful Shoulder–Arm Syndromes 14.5 Pain in the Trunk and Back 14.6 Leg Pain 14.7 Pseudoradicular Pain The Same, Only Different…
Overview Meningitis and encephalitis can also appear in mixed forms: a meningeal infection can spread to the brain (and/or spinal cord), or vice versa, causing meningo(myelo)encephalitis. The latter term is…
Head and Cranial Nerves Key Point One should note the shape of the head and face, the range of motion of the cervical spine, and the intrinsic reflexes of the…
8.1 Fundamentals 8.2 Multiple Sclerosis 8.3 Other Autoimmune Diseases of the CNS Ups and Downs In the spring of 1970, the patient, who was then 30 years old, noticed a tingling in her…
Nontraumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage Key Point Nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage is defined as a spontaneous hemorrhage into the brain parenchyma (intracerebral hemorrhage) or the CSF space (subarachnoid hemorrhage). Intracerebral hemorrhages cause acute…
9.1 Fundamentals 9.2 Generalized Seizures 9.3 Focal (Partial) Seizures 9.4 Status Epilepticus 9.5 Episodic Neurologic Disturbances of Nonepileptic Origin Blackout The patient was 76 years old when his wife, returning home from a brief shopping…
