Medical Neurosciences

This text provides a clinically-focused introduction to the neurosciences. The contributors discuss the nervous system in terms of longitudinal systems and horizontal levels, and integrate the various areas of the neurosciences - anatomy, embryology, physiology, pathology, and biochemistry - and correlate these basic sciences with clinical neurology. Coverage includes systematic approaches to diagnosis of neurologic disorders. Chapter objectives and clinical problems with answers are included in each chapter. This edition reflects the expanded knowledge of the molecular and biochemical basis of neural organization and disease. Included are discussions on neuronal development, apoptosis, and molecular mechanisms of some neurologic disorders and their pharmacologic treatment.
 
This text provides a clinically-focused introduction to the neurosciences. The contributors discuss the nervous system in terms of longitudinal systems and horizontal levels, and integrate the various areas of the neurosciences - anatomy, embryology, physiology, pathology, and biochemistry - and correlate these basic sciences with clinical neurology. Coverage includes systematic approaches to diagnosis of neurologic disorders. Chapter objectives and clinical problems with answers are included in each chapter. This edition reflects the expanded knowledge of the molecular and biochemical basis of neural organization and disease. Included are discussions on neuronal development, apoptosis, and molecular mechanisms of some neurologic disorders and their pharmacologic treatment.