This concise text delivers a basic introduction to neurology and is designed for use by medical students during their rotation in neurology and related disciplines. Updated and expanded, this second edition follows the same order as the first, starting with how to approach a patient with a neurologic problem followed by the latest information on the phenomenology, pathophysiology and symptoms of common adult and pediatric neurologic diseases.  Supplementing the learning experience are clinical cases that begin each chapter and videos of examples ranging from how to perform the normal neurologic exam to abnormal exam findings.

Easy-to-read and richly illustrated, Fundamentals of Neurologic Disease, 2nd Edition is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to learn the fundamentals of neurology.

Larry E. Davis, MD

Chief Neurology Service

Distinguished Professor of Neurology

New Mexico VA Health Care System

1501 San Pedro Dr. SE

Albuquerque, NM, 87108

Sarah Pirio Richardson, M.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Neurology

Health Sciences Center

MSC 11 6035

1 University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Foreword.- Approach to the patient with neurologic problem: key steps in neurological diagnosis and treatment.- Neurologic examination.- Common neurologic tests.- Disorders of muscle.- Disorders of the neuromuscular junction.- Disorders of peripheral nerves.- Disorders of the spinal cord and vertebral bodies.- Disorders of the brainstem and cerebellum.- Disorders of the cerebrovascular system.- Disorders of myelin.- Disorders of higher cortical function.- Disorders of the extrapyramidal system.- Infections of the Nervous System.- Brain tumors.- Seizures and status epilepticus.- Cardiac arrest, coma and cerebral death.- Disorders of the developing nervous system.- Traumatic brain injury and subdural hematoma.- Neurologic complications of alcohol and B12 deficiency.- Disorders of pain and headache.- Disorders of the vestibular system.- Sleep.