The thoroughly updated Eleventh Edition of this classic retains the organization, practicality, and readability that makes "Merritt's Neurology" one of the most popular texts among neurologists, primary care physicians, and residents reviewing for psychiatry or neurology boards. In 171 short chapters, the book provides the essentials clinicians need on symptoms/signs, diagnostic tests, and neurologic disorders of all etiologies. This edition features new chapters on endovascular surgical neuroradiology and on psychiatric conditions - schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety, and somatoform disorders. Other new chapters cover disorders of DNA translation, pachymeningitis, and Hashimoto encephalopathy. Most chapters have been updated to reflect advances in molecular genetics. It is part of the "Doody's Core Titles 2009."
The thoroughly updated Eleventh Edition of this classic retains the organization, practicality, and readability that makes "Merritt's Neurology" one of the most popular texts among neurologists, primary care physicians, and residents reviewing for psychiatry or neurology boards. In 171 short chapters, the book provides the essentials clinicians need on symptoms/signs, diagnostic tests, and neurologic disorders of all etiologies. This edition features new chapters on endovascular surgical neuroradiology and on psychiatric conditions - schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety, and somatoform disorders. Other new chapters cover disorders of DNA translation, pachymeningitis, and Hashimoto encephalopathy. Most chapters have been updated to reflect advances in molecular genetics. It is part of the "Doody's Core Titles 2009."
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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 26-OCT-05, Volume 294, Issue 16, Joseph Fermaglich, MD, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC -- "Merritt, an avatar of neurology, would rejoice that his successors have sustained his work with such expertise and intellect. Merritt's Neurology demands a readily accessible place on the practitioner's shelf. Students and trainees will hone their neurologic skills by consulting the book, and those preparing for the neurology board examinations will find it a highly valuable resource. Bestowed on the 11th edition is the Babinski award: two toes up."-Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 26-OCT-05, Volume 294, Issue 16, Joseph Fermaglich, MD, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC -- "Merritt, an avatar of neurology, would rejoice that his successors have sustained his work with such expertise and intellect. Merritt's Neurology demands a readily accessible place on the practitioner's shelf. Students and trainees will hone their neurologic skills by consulting the book, and those preparing for the neurology board examinations will find it a highly valuable resource. Bestowed on the 11th edition is the Babinski award: two toes up."-Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
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978-0-7817-5311-1 (9780781753111)
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SECTION I: SYMPTOMS OF NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS 1 SECTION II: HOW TO SELECT DIAGNOSTIC TESTS 65 SECTION III: INFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 137 SECTION IV: VASCULAR DISEASES 273 SECTION V: DISORDERS OF CEREBROSPINAL AND BRAIN FLUIDS 347 SECTION VI: TUMORS 369 SECTION VII: TRAUMA 481 SECTION VIII: BIRTH INJURIES AND DEVELOPMENTAL ABNORMALITIES 561 SECTION IX: GENETIC DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM 605 SECTION X: DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA 693 SECTION XI: NEUROCUTANEOUS DISORDERS 711 SECTION XII: PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIES 733 SECTION XIII: DEMENTIAS 769 SECTION XIV: ATAXIAS 781 SECTION XV: MOVEMENT DISORDERS 801 SECTION XVI: SPINAL CORD DISEASES 853 SECTION XVII: DISORDERS OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION 875 SECTION XVIII: MYOPATHIES 891 SECTION XIX: DEMYELINATING DISEASES 939 SECTION XX: AUTONOMIC DISORDERS 969 SECTION XXI: PAROXYSMAL DISORDERS 979 SECTION XXII: SYSTEMIC DISEASES AND GENERAL MEDICINE 1031 SECTION XXIII: PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY 1123 SECTION XXIV: ENVIRONMENTAL NEUROLOGY 1149 SECTION XXV: REHABILITATION 1193 SECTION XXVI: ETHICAL AND LEGAL GUIDELINES 1199 Index 1205
