Full Description
How to Think Like a Neurologist flips the neurology educational narrative on its head and attempts to lift the veil of neurophobia to show how neurologists use critical thinking and clinical reasoning to diagnose neurologic diseases.
This book aims to provide a practical representation of the modern-day practice of medicine, where the good clinical neurologist is no longer seen as somebody who somehow carries encyclopedic knowledge of every medical condition. Rather, they appropriately recognize and categorize findings, and then, having narrowed the possibilities, they do the necessary additional research in order to appropriately diagnose and treat the patient.
This case-based volume focuses not on the diseases themselves, but rather on the clinical methods used to identify neurologic diseases, and the method is disarmingly simple. The cases in this book are a fascinating collection of oddities and rarities, but the diseases themselves in this book are merely the vessel through which clinical reasoning is taught. By the end of the book, readers are empowered with a foundation they can apply in their own clinical practice.
Contents
Introduction to Clinical Reasoning in Neurology
Case 1: Right basal ganglia infarct
Case 2: Multifocal motor neuropathy
Case 3: Varicella zoster cavernous sinus syndrome
Case 4: Pituitary macroadenoma
Case 5: Paraneoplastic cerebellitis
Case 6: Dorsal root ganglionopathy
Case 7: TTR amyloidosis
Case 8: Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
Case 9: Anterior spinal artery infarct
Case 10: Bickerstaff encephalitis
Case 11: HIV encephalopathy
Case 12: Susac syndrome
Case 13: Artery of Percheron infarct
Case 14: Sporadic fatal insomnia
Case 15: Intravascular lymphoma
Case 16: HMG CoA reductase myopathy
Case 17: West Nile encephalitis
Case 18: Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration
Case 19: Tuberculoma
Case 20: CADASIL
