Main description:

This concise book is about using clinical stories to learn how to practice neurology.

Each chapter represents a neurological case from different sub-specialty of neurology; authors illustrate how clinical neurology storytelling remains heavily tied to a detailed understanding of neuroanatomy, then consideration of a differential diagnosis for neuroanatomic localization before determining an etiologic a differential diagnosis. The neuroanatomic localization can be focal (one spot or region), multifocal (two or more physically discrete separate regions), or diffuse (widely dispersed across a broad but selected part of neuroanatomy). These stories capture the hypothesis testing point of view by offering different diagnostic possibilities based on presenting history alone, and then the storyteller revises those possibilities after testing them further with physical exam findings and later with test data. At each point, the exercise is to understand what the possibilities are based only on the information available at that point of the hypothesis testing and data collection processes.

This interesting read for the upcoming residents and medical student educates on presenting complex neurological case in an explicit way.

Contents:

Section 1: Neuro-Oncology

Chapter 1. Case 1: Elusive

Swathi Beladakere Ramaswamy

Chapter 2. Case 2 : Summer Butterflies

Angela Richmond

Section 2: Spinal cord

Chapter 3. Case 1: Come and gone

Swathi Beladakere Ramaswamy, Sachin M Bhagavan

Section 3: Headache

Chapter 4. Case 1: Every day is a Sunday

Sachin M Bhagavan, Ross Smith

Chapter 5. Case 2: Mi CabezaSachin M Bhagavan, Swathi Beladakere Ramaswamy, Gurtej Singh

Section 4: Neuromuscular

Chapter 6. Case 1: Make Me Smile

Chetan Nayak

Section 5: Neurovascular

Chapter 7. Case 1: Eye of the Tiger

Navpreet K Bains

Section 6: Neuro-immunology

Chapter 8. Case 1: The Last Ride

Nakul Katyal

Section 7: Cognitive Neurology

Chapter 9. Case 1 : He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

Angela Richmond

Chapter 10. Case 2: The Minister, his Ferrari and his new wife

Aisha Abdulrazaq

Section 8: Neuro-ophthalmology

Chapter 11. Case 1: Doc I see aliens!

Zalan Khan M.D., Chetan Nayak M.D.

Chapter 12. Case 2: Still Can't See (NMSOD)

Zalan Khan M.D.