This textbook takes as a premise that, in order to make intelligent diagnosis and provide a rational treatment in disorders of the nervous system, it is necessary to develop the capacity to answer the basic questions of clinical neurology:
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Elliott M. Marcus, M.D. is Professor Emeritus of Neurology, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, MA; Lecturer in Neurology, Tufts University School of Medicine; Chairman Emeritus, Department of Neurology St. Vincent Hospital and Fallon Clinic.
Stanley Jacobson, Ph.D. is Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Tufts University Health Science Campus, Boston, MA.
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Preface. Dedication. Section I: Introduction to Basic Neurobiology. 1. Overview of the nervous system. 2. Overview of localization of function and neurological diagnosis. 3. Neurocytology. 4. Neuroembryology. 5. Basic Physiology. Section II: Regional Approach to Neuroanatomy and Localization. 6. Skeletal Muscle and Nerve-Muscle Junction. 7. Spinal Cord: Structure and Physiology. 8. Disease of Peripheral Nerve and Nerve Root. 9. Clinical Considerations of the Spinal Cord. 10. Case History Problem Solving Part I: Spinal Cord, Nerve Root. 11. Functional Anatomy of the Brain Stem. 12. Cranial Nerves. 13. Brain Stem: Clinical Considerations. 14. Case History Problem Solving Part II: Brain Stem and Cranial Nerves. 15. Diencephlaon. Section III: Major Systems. 16. Hypothalamus, Neuroendocrine and Autonomic systems. 17. Cerebral cortex, Cytoarchitecture, Functional localization. 18. Motor System I: Reflex Activity and Cortical Motor Function. 19. Motor System II: Basal Ganglia and Movement Disorders. 20. Motor System III: Cerebellum and Movement. 21. Somatosensory Function and the Parietal Lobe. 22. Limbic System. 23. Visual system. 24. Speech, Language, Cerebral Dominance and the Aphasias. 25. Case History Problem Solving III: Cortical Localization. 26. Disease of the Cerebral Hemispheres: I: Vascular Syndromes. 27. Disease of the Cerebral Hemispheres: II: Non Vascular. 28. Case History Problem Solving IV: Cerebral Hemispheres. Section IV: Complex Functions. 29. Alterations in Consciousness: Seizures, Coma, and Sleep. 30. Learning, Memory, Amnesia, Dementias. 31. Case History Problem Solving: V: Part I General Histories. 31A. Case History Problem Solving V: Part II General Case Histories. Table of Contents: CD. Atlas PDF Format. Cases in Long Format: PDF Format. Cranial Nerve: Illustrations in PDF Format. Special Senses. Pathways in the CNS PDF Format. Supplemental. Index.