Principles of Neurology - Hardcover

Adams, Raymond D.; Victor, Maurice; Ropper, Allan H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070674396 ISBN 13: 9780070674394

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1997

Synopsis

This revised edition features a new art programme as well as advances in in diagnosis and treatment, while covering the fundamentals of neurologic diseases. It uses a symptom-based approach allowing the reader to proceed logically from cardinal manifestations to syndromes, differential diagnosis and appropriate therapies. The basic anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology and molecular genetics necessary for a complete understanding of neurologic, psychiatric and muscle diseases are included, as well as discussion of the basic mechanisms of neurologic disease enabling the reader to understand more easily diagnosis and clinical management.

About this title

Review:

"...text remains most pleasant to read and has maintained its lucent and elegant style." "Adams and Victor's book ranks first among textbooks in neurology on account of its didactics." "...the book remarkable when compared with other similar texts." "The seventh edition of Adams and Victor's textbook remains a first-class book for residents training in neurology, but is no less valuable for senior neurologists. It is also a perfect reference for other medical specialists and psychologists. Non-neurologists will easily find answers to their questions, with an appropriate amount of detail. The cliche that everyone should purchase this book or that it belongs in any neurological library is redundant and out of tune here. One can certainly live without this book, but medical life is far more pleasant with a copy within reach." Lancet 20011006

From the Publisher:

New to this Edition

1.Expanded coverage of treatment'including specific treatment/clinical management boxes included in each disease-based chapter(Will include novel drug treatments for chronic migraines and Parkinson's disease).

2. Many more examples of neuroimaging(PET scans will illustrate functional changes of the brain during stroke and epileptic seizure. Many CT scans showing the various array of brain tumor entities.)

3.More tables'detailing salient diagnostic features and differential diagnoses

4.New chapter on molecular mechanisms of disease and molecular and genetic diagnostic techniques

5.More comprehensive and current chapters on neuromuscular and peripheral nerve disorders

6.More graphics to offset dense appearance of current edition'Will include many new figures depicting nerve/muscle innervations and synaptic tangles that will aid in the understanding of disease.

7.Inclusion of second-color. Used didactically to highlight EEG tracings and molecular pathways of disease.

Key Features:

1.Most cohesive and consistent approach to clinical management'Still considered the most readable book in the literature.

2.Very scholarly approach'Provides reader with a very thorough overview of each and every neurologic illness

3.Not an eclectic reference'a committed, opinionated stance is taken on each topic.

4. Comprehensive coverage of all primary and secondary neurologic illnesses and disease symptomalogy.

5.Sections on signs and symptoms 'reads'' like a virtual grand rounds in neurology

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0070674396
• ISBN 13: 9780070674394
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 1440