Differential Diagnosis in Neurology

Neurological Differential Diagnosis is a practical, comprehensive, and highly illustrated book covering all aspects of neurology, from clinical history taking and examination to management of neurological conditions, and their complications.

This book consists of 46 chapters, beginning with clinical history and neurological examination. Subsequent chapters detail the ideal approach to patients with a vast range of neurological conditions, from epilepsy and coma, to dementia, gait disorders, and lower backache.

Neurological Differential Diagnosis includes over 250 full colour images and illustrations, which enhance the range of common and rare neurological conditions covered, making this an ideal reference guide for neurologists.

Key Points

• Highly illustrated guide to neurological examination
• 46 chapters cover extensive range of neurological conditions
• 257 full colour images and illustrations

1. Clinical History and Neurologic Examination of Adult
2. Historical Aspects of Neurological Examination
3. Transient Loss of Consciousness
4. Approach to Patients with New-Onset Seizures
5. Approach to Intractable Epilepsy
6. Psychogenic Non-epileptic Attack Disorder
7. Approach to Coma
8. Delirium and Acute Confusional States
9. Approach to a Patient with Intellectual and Memory Impairment
10. Approach to Global Development Delay and Developmental Regression
11. Approach to a Patient with Speech and Language Disorders
12. Clinical Evaluation of Apraxia and Agnosia
13. Dementia: Clinical Approach
14. Approach to Disturbances of Smell and Taste
15. Approach to Visual Loss
16. Clinical Approach to Pupillary and Eyelid Abnormalities
17. Approach to a Dizzy Patient
18. Approach to Deafness
19. Approach to a Patient with Neurogenic Dysphagia
20. Evaluation of Acute Headache
21. Chronic Headache
22. Approach to Ataxia of Limbs and Gait
23. Approach to Gait Disorders
24. Approach to Falls in the Young, Middle Aged, and the Elderly
25. Dystonia: A Clinical Approach
26. Myoclonus
27. Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders
28. Hypokinetic Disorders
29. Approach to Monoplegia and Hemiplegia
30. Approach to Patients with Paraplegia
31. An Approach to the Floppy Infant
32. 32.   Clinical Approach to a Patient with Peripheral Neuropathy
33. Clinical Approach to Muscle Disease
34. Approach to Neck and Arm Pain
35. Lower Backache and Lower Limb Pain
36. Suspected Spinal Cord Syndromes: A Clinical Approach
37. Craniovertebral Junction Anomalies—Diagnosis and Changing Trends in Management
38. Approach to Bladder, Bowel, and Sexual Dysfunction
39. Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
40. Differential Diagnosis of the Parasomnias
41. Diagnosis of Spontaneous Intracerebral Haemorrhage and Its Complications
42. Approach to a Patient with Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
43. Approach to Stroke in Young
44. Spinal Cord Vascular Diseases
45. Approach to Non-arterial Ischemic Strokes—Central Nervous System Vasculitis
46. Approach to a Patient with Acute Ischemic Stroke within Four Hours of Onset

Appendix

Index

Sudesh Prabhakar
Professor and Head, Department of Neurology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical, Education and Research, Chandigarh, Punjab, India

Gagandeep Singh
Head, Department of Neurology, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India