Adams and Victor's principles of neurology / Maurice Victor, Allan H. Ropper

You know it as the masterwork in its field...and now, you can own the newest, most up-to-date version of this classic text: Adams and Victor's PRINCIPLES OF NEUROLOGY, 7th Edition. This remarkable volume now incorporates the latest findings in the growing areas of neurology even as it retains its authority, comprehensive scope, and popular, easy-use format. Adams and Victor's PRINCIPLES OF NEUROLOGY, 7th Edition, begins with a detailed exposition of the symptoms and signs of disordered nervous function, just as you would begin with symptoms as presented by a patient. The text logically proceeds to syndromes and then to a description of all the main categories and types of disease that express themselves by each syndrome. Adams & Victor’s Principles of Neurology CONTENTS 2 NOTICE 5 PREFACE 6 Chapter 1 THE CLINICAL METHOD OF NEUROLOGY 7 Chapter 2 SPECIAL TECHNIQUES FOR NEUROLOGIC DIAGNOSIS 12 Chapter 3 MOTOR PARALYSIS 24 Section 1 DISORDERS OF MOTILITY 34 Chapter 4 ABNORMALITIES OF MOVEMENT AND POSTURE DUE TO DISEASE OF THE BASAL GANGLIA 35 Chapter 5 INCOORDINATION AND OTHER DISORDERS OF CEREBELLAR FUNCTION 44 Chapter 6 TREMOR, MYOCLONUS, FOCAL DYSTONIAS, AND TICS 50 Chapter 7 DISORDERS OF STANCE AND GAIT 62 Chapter 8 PAIN 68 Chapter 9 OTHER SOMATIC SENSATION 79 Chapter 10 HEADACHE AND OTHER CRANIOFACIAL PAINS 88 Chapter 11 PAIN IN THE BACK, NECK, AND EXTREMITIES 102 Chapter 12 DISORDERS OF SMELL AND TASTE 116 Section 3 DISORDERS OF THE SPECIAL SENSES 121 Chapter 13 COMMON DISTURBANCES OF VISION 122 Chapter 14 DISORDERS OF OCULAR MOVEMENT AND PUPILLARY FUNCTION 134 Chapter 15 DEAFNESS, DIZZINESS, AND DISORDERS OF EQUILIBRIUM 149 Chapter 16 EPILEPSY AND OTHER SEIZURE DISORDERS 161 Chapter 17 COMA AND RELATED DISORDERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS 179 Chapter 18 FAINTNESS AND SYNCOPE 191 Chapter 19 SLEEP AND ITS ABNORMALITIES 199 Chapter 20 DELIRIUM AND OTHER ACUTE CONFUSIONAL STATES 211 Section 5 INCOORDINATION AND OTHER DISORDERS OF CEREBELLAR FUNCTION 218 Chapter 21 DEMENTIA AND THE AMNESIC (KORSAKOFF) SYNDROME: 219 Chapter 22 NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS CAUSED BY LESIONS IN PARTICULAR PARTS OF THE CEREBRUM 229 Chapter 23 DISORDERS OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE 247 Chapter 24 FATIGUE, ASTHENIA, ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSIVE REACTIONS 259 Chapter 25 THE LIMBIC LOBES AND THE NEUROLOGY OF EMOTION 265 Chapter 26 DISORDERS OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM, RESPIRATION, AND SWALLOWING 272 Chapter 27 THE HYPOTHALAMUS AND NEUROENDOCRINE DISORDERS 289 Chapter 28 NORMAL DEVELOPMENT AND DEVIATIONS IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 298 Chapter 29 THE NEUROLOGY OF AGING 315 Chapter 30 DISTURBANCES OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID AND ITS CIRCULATION, 323 Chapter 31 INTRACRANIAL NEOPLASMS AND PARANEOPLASTIC DISORDERS 334 Chapter 32 INFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM (BACTERIAL, FUNGAL, SPIROCHETAL, PARASITIC) AND SARCOID 362 Chapter 33 VIRAL INFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND PRION DISEASES 387 Chapter 34 CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 406 Chapter 35 CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA 457 Chapter 36 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND ALLIED DEMYELINATIVE DISEASES 472 Chapter 37 THE INHERITED METABOLIC DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 487 Chapter 38 DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 521 Chapter 39 DEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 550 Chapter 40 THE ACQUIRED METABOLIC DISORDERS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 586 Chapter 41 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM DUE TO NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY 602 Chapter 42 ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM 616 Chapter 43 DISORDERS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM DUE TO DRUGS AND OTHER CHEMICAL AGENTS 626 Chapter 44 DISEASES OF THE SPINAL CORD 647 Chapter 45 ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TESTING AND LABORATORY AIDS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE 674 Chapter 46 DISEASES OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVES 686 Chapter 47 DISEASES OF THE CRANIAL NERVES 724 Chapter 48 PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL MYOLOGY: DIAGNOSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF MUSCLE DISEASES—GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 733 Chapter 49 THE INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHIES 740 Chapter 50 THE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES 747 Chapter 51 THE METABOLIC AND TOXIC MYOPATHIES 757 Chapter 52 THE CONGENITAL NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS 764 Chapter 53 MYASTHENIA GRAVIS AND RELATED DISORDERS OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION 768 Chapter 54 THE HEREDITARY MYOTONIAS AND PERIODIC PARALYSES (THE CHANNELOPATHIES) 777 Chapter 55 DISORDERS OF MUSCLE CHARACTERIZED BY CRAMP, SPASM, PAIN, AND LOCALIZED MASSES 783 Chapter 56 THE NEUROSES AND PERSONALITY DISORDERS 789 Chapter 57 REACTIVE DEPRESSION, ENDOGENOUS DEPRESSION, AND MANIC-DEPRESSIVE DISEASE 802 Chapter 58 THE SCHIZOPHRENIAS AND PARANOID STATES 810 Part 6 PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS 821