Widely known and well-respected, The Little Black Book of Neurology has been a thorough yet portable reference in this complex field for more than 30 years, presenting definitions, classifications, and guidance on diagnosis and management for a wide range of neurological disorders. The 6th Edition offers updated and expanded coverage of neuropharmacology and neuroimaging – plus a new, more user-friendly, fast-access format that makes the book ideal for quick clinical consultation or as a refresher for the Boards.
Key Features
- Presents a comprehensive, yet concise, "all-in-one" introduction to neurology in a portable, alphabetical format – now newly structured to make reference faster and easier than ever.
- Enables you to access critical guidance at a glance with new tables of differential diagnosis, patient evaluation, and treatment options.
- Covers many new topics including significantly expanded sections on sleep, neuromuscular disorders, and critical care.
- Includes four new appendices: Neurocritical Emergencies • Therapeutic Care • AAN Guideline Summaries • and Scales – highlighting evidence-based guidelines when available, enabling you to make more informed clinical judgments.
- Offers updated and expanded coverage of neuropharmacology and neuroimaging.
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase.
Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Author Information
Edited by Osama O. Zaidat, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; Alan J. Lerner, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH; Medical Director, Heather Hill Hospital and Health Care, Chardon, OH; J.Douglas Miles, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and Director, Neuroscience Education, Neuroscience Institute, The Queen’s Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
Abscess, Brain
Abscess, Epidural
Acalculia
Acid-Base Disturbances
ADEM Disease
Agnosia
Agraphia
AIDS
Alcohol
Alexia
Amaurosis Fugax
Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Angelman Syndrome
Angiography
Angiomas
Antibody Testing In Neuromuscular Disease
Antidepressants
Aphasia
Apraxia
Arteriovenous Malformations
Asterixis
Ataxia, Spinocerebellar Degeneration
Athetosis (See Also Chorea)
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Autism
Autonomic Dysfunction
Balint Syndrome
Benzodiazepines
Bladder
Botulinum Toxin
Brachial Plexus
Brain Death
Bulbar Palsy
Cadasil
Caloric Testing
Cardiopulmonary Arrest (See Also Brain Death, COMA)
Carotid-Cavernous Fistula
Carotid Stenosis (See Also Ischemia)
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Catamenial Epilepsy
Cauda Equina And Conus Medullaris
Cerebellum
Cerebral Aneurysms
Cerebral Cortex
Cerebral Hemorrhage, Intracranial Hemorrhage, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral Salt-Wasting Syndrome
Cerebrospinal Fluid
Channelopathies
Chemotherapy, Neurologic Complications
Chiari Malformations
Child Neurology: History, And Physical Examination
Chorea
Chromosomal Disorders
COMA (See Also Brain Death, Cardiopulmonary Arrest, And AAN Guideline Appendix)
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy)
Computed Tomography
Conversion Disorder
Confusional State (See Delirium)
Cramps
Cranial Nerves
Craniocervical Junction (See Also Arnold-Chiari Malformation)
Craniosynostosis
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; Other Human Prion Diseases
Degenerative Diseases Of Childhood
Dementia (See Also AAN Guideline Summaries Appendix)
Delirium (Acute Confusional State)
Demyelinating Disorders
Dermatomes
Diabetes Insipidus
Dialysis (Central Nervous System Complications)
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
Dizziness
Dysarthria
Dyskinesia; Tardive (See Also Therapeutic Appendix)
Dysphagia
Dystonia
Electrocardiogram And Cardiac Effects Of Neurological Disorders
Electroencephalography
Electrolyte Disorders
Electromyography And Nerve Conduction Studies
Embryology Of The Congenital Malformations Of The Brain And Spine
Encephalitis
Encephalopathy
Encephalopathy, Perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemic
Endovascular Treatment Of Aneurysms
Epilepsy And Women (See Also Catamenial Epilepsy, Epilepsy, And AAN Guideline Summaries Appendix)
Epilepsy (See Also AAN Guideline Summaries, Neurologic Emergency, And Therapeutic Appendices)
Erectile Dysfunction; Impotence
Evoked Potentials
Extracranial Ultrasonography
Eye Muscles
Facial Nerve, Hemifacial Spasm
Femoral Nerve
Fontanel
Fragile X Syndrome
Frontal Lobe
Frontal Lobe Lesions And Syndromes
Frontal Lobe Seizure
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Gait Disorders
Gaze Palsy
Gerstmann Syndrome
Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia
Glucose Imbalance
Graves Ophthalmopathy
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (See Also Neuropathy)
Hallucinations
Head Trauma
Headache: Migraine And Other Types (See Also AAN Guideline Summaries Appendix)
Hearing
Hemifacial Spasm
Herniation
Hiccups (Singultus, Hiccoughs)
Horner Syndrome, Cocaine Test
Huntington Disease
Hydrocephalus
Hyperventilation
Hypotonic Infant/Hypotonia In Infancy/Floppy Infant
Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
Immunization, Vaccination
Intracranial Pressure
Intracranial Stenosis
Ischemia (Stroke And Transient Ischemic Attack) (See Also The Neurologic Emergency Appendix, Acute Ischemic Stroke)
Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome
Learning Disabilities
Limbic System
Lumbosacral Plexopathy
Lyme Disease, Neuroborreliosis
Macrocephaly
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetoencephalography
Marburg Disease
Mechanical Thrombectomy For Acute Ischemic Stroke (See Thrombectomy)
Melas
Memory
Meningitis (See Also Neurologic Emergency Appendix)
Mental Status Testing
Metabolic Diseases Of Childhood
Microcephaly
Mitochondrial Disorders
Motor Neuron Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (See Also AAN Guideline Summaries Appendix)
Moyamoya Disease
Multiple Sclerosis (See Also AAN Guideline Summaries And Therapeutic Appendices)
Muscle Diseases And Testing
Muscular Dystrophy
Myasthenia Gravis
Myelography
Myoclonus
Myoglobinuria, Rhabdomyolysis, Creatine Kinase
Myopathy
Myotomes
Myotonia, Myotonic Dystrophy
Neglect
Neurocutaneous Syndromes
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Neuroleptics
Neuropathy (See Also AAN Guideline Summaries Appendix)
Nutritional Deficiency Syndromes
Nystagmus
Occipital Lobe
Ocular Oscillations
Olfaction
Opalski Syndrome
Ophthalmoplegia
Optic Nerve
Optokinetic Nystagmus
Paget Disease
Pain
Paraneoplastic Neurologic Syndromes
Parietal Lobe
Parkinson Disease
Parkinsonism
Periodic Paralysis (See Myotonia)
Peripheral Nerve Disease (See Also Neuropathy)
PET And SPECT
Pituitary Disorders (Pituitary Adenoma, Hypo- And Hyperpituitarism, Apoplexy)
Porphyria
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES), See Also Hypertensive Encephalopathy
Pregnancy
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Pseudobulbar Palsy
Pseudotumor Cerebri
Ptosis
Pupil
Radial Nerve
Radiation Injury
Radiculopathy
Reflexes
Respiratory Failure
Restless Legs Syndrome (Willis-Ekbom Syndrome)
Retina And Uveal Tract (Uveitis)
Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome, Call-Fleming Syndrome
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rigidity
Romberg Sign
Sarcoidosis
Sciatic Nerve, Sciatica
Sepsis
Shunts, Third Ventriculostomy, Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts
Sickle Cell Disease
Sleep Disorders
Spasticity
Spinal Cord
Spinal Cord Compression (See Also Spinal Cord Trauma, Spinal Cord Injury In Neurologic Emergency Appendix)
Spinal Cord Trauma (See Also Spinal Cord Compression And Neurologic Emergencies Appendix)
Spinal Cord Infarction
Spinal Epidural Abscesses
Spinocerebellar Ataxia (See Also Ataxia)
Spinocerebellar Degeneration (Spinocerebellar Ataxia)
Status Epilepticus (See Also Epilepsy NCC And Neurologic Emergencies Appendix)
Subdural Hematoma
Syncope
Syndrome Of Inappropriate Secretion Of Antidiuretic Hormone (SIADH)
Syphilis
Taste
Tauopathies
Temporal Lobe
Thyroid
Thrombectomy For Acute Ischemic Stroke
Tourette Syndrome (Gilles De La Tourette Syndrome)
Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound
Transplantation
Tremors (See Also Therapeutic Appendix)
Trigeminal Neuralgia
Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion
Tumor Embolization
Tumors
Ulnar Nerve (See Also Peripheral Nerve)
Ultrasonography (See Transcranial Doppler)
Uremia
Vasculitis
Vein Of Galen Malformation
Venous Thrombosis
Vertebroplasty/Kyphoplasty
Vertigo
Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex
Visual Fields
Wada Testing
White Matter Tract Lesion In Multiple Sclerosis—Radiographic Features
Wilson Disease
Zoster
AAN Guideline Summaries Appendix
Evaluation And Prognosis Of Coma
Diagnostic Accuracy Of 14-3-3 Protein In Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Diagnosis And Management Of Dementia
Child Neurology: Summary Of All Guidelines
Concussion: Evaluation And Management Of Concussion In Sport
Women With Epilepsy
New Anti-Epileptic Drugs (AED) In The Treatment Of Newly Diagnosed Epilepsy
New Anti-Epileptic Drugs (AED) In The Treatment Of Refractory Epilepsy
Patent Foramen Ovale And Stroke
Diagnosis Of Patients With Neuroborreliosis
Migraine Diagnosis And General Treatment Consideration
Acute And Preventive Therapy Of Migraine Headache In Children And Adolescents
Supportive Management Of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Algorithms For Nutritional And Respiratory Management Of ALS
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) In Multiple Sclerosis (MS) And Diagnostic Consideration In Patients With White Matter Lesions
Disease-Modifying Therapies In Multiple Sclerosis
Surgical Therapy Of Diabetic Neuropathy
Immunotherapy In Management Of Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Treating Parkinson Disease
Treating Behavioral Changes In Parkinson Disease
Standards Of Transcranial Doppler Application
Strokes Guidelines Summary
Neurologic Emergency Appendix
Acute Ischemic Stroke
Bacterial Meningitis And Severe Encephalitis
Myasthenic Crisis
Headache Management
Hemorrhagic Stroke, Intracranial Hemorrhage, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, See Stroke
Intracranial Pressure Management
Intoxication, Alcohol, And Illicit Drugs
Neuromuscular Diseases
Neuropathic Pain
Nonacute Ischemic Stroke
Quadriplegia
Spinal Cord Injury
Status Epilepticus, Seizure
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Therapeutic Appendix
Chemotherapy: Common Neuro-Oncologic Drugs
Chorea (Movement Disorder)
Dementia: Primary Medications
Depression
Epilepsy 696
Treatment For Essential Tremor (Movement Disorder)
Headache
Insomnia
Multiple Sclerosis
Myasthenia Gravis
Narcolepsy
Neuro-Oncology, Therapeutics
Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome
Paget Disease
Pain (See Also Headache, AED, And Antidepressants In AAN Guideline Summaries Appendix)
Parkinson Disease (Movement Disorder)
Restless Legs Syndrome
Sedatives And Paralytics
Spasticity (Movement Disorder)
Stroke
TICS (Movement Disorder)
Scales Appendix
Chalfont Seizure Severity Scale
Epworth Sleepiness Scale
Fisher Scale
Glasgow Coma Scale
Glasgow Outcome Rating Scale
Hunt And Hess Clinical Severity Scale For Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Kurtzke Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS)
Kurtzke Functional Systems Scores (FSS)
Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
Modified Rankin Clinical Disability Scale
NIH Stroke Severity Scale (NIHSSS)
Parkinson Disease Rating Scales
Spetzler-Martin Scale For Arteriovenous Malformation
