Weiner and Levitt's Neurology (House Officer Series)

Thoroughly updated for its Eighth Edition this highly praised volume of the House Officer Series is a succinct symptom-oriented pocket guide to diagnosis treatment and management of common neurological disorders. Each chapter opens with a clinical case study and proceeds to classification of symptoms history physical examination laboratory tests differential diagnosis diagnosis treatment and management. This edition includes a new glossary of neurological terms a new chapter on evidence-based neurology a revised more thorough chapter on localization of neurological disease updated illustrations and current references. The author reviews the latest advances in therapeutics particularly in movement disorders stroke neuroimmunology brain tumor treatment headache pharmacology and epilepsy.