Contents -- Symbols and abbreviations -- 1 Neurological history and examination -- Principles of neurological history taking -- The general examination -- Cranial nerve 1 (olfactory nerve) -- Cranial nerve 2 (optic nerve and visual pathway) -- Cranial nerves 3 (oculomotor), 4 (trochlear), and 6 (abducens) -- Cranial nerves 5 and 7-12 -- Examination of the upper and lower limbs -- Bedside cognitive testing, including language -- The mini-mental state examination (MMSE) -- 2 Neuroanatomy -- The cranial cavity -- Dermatomes of the upper and lower limbs -- Innervation of the upper limbs -- Innervation of the lower limbs -- Cross-sections of the brain and spinal cord -- 3 Common clinical presentations -- Loss of consciousness -- Acute vertigo -- Acute headache (thunderclap headache) -- Acute neuromuscular weakness -- Acute focal neurological syndromes -- Spastic paraparesis -- Ataxia -- Acute visual failure -- Coma -- Coma prognosis -- Excessive daytime sleepiness -- Tremor -- Tics -- Chorea and athetosis -- Myoclonus -- Dystonia -- 4 Neurological disorders -- Cerebrovascular disease: stroke -- Management of stroke -- Prevention of ischaemic stroke -- Cerebral venous thrombosis -- Images in cerebrovascular disease -- Dementia: introduction -- Alzheimer's disease -- Frontotemporal dementia -- Other dementias -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) -- Epilepsy: introduction -- Management of epilepsy -- Women and epilepsy -- Seizures versus dissociative non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD) or pseudoseizures -- Management of status epilepticus -- Headache: migraine-introduction and clinical features -- Migraine: differential diagnosis, investigations, and IHS criteria -- Management of acute migraine: the stepped care regimen -- Management of migraine prophylaxis -- Migraine and women -- Primary short-lasting headaches -- Cluster headache.

Trigeminal neuralgia -- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) -- Parkinsonism and Parkinson's disease (PD): introduction -- Clinical features of parkinsonism and PD -- Differential diagnosis of PD and investigation -- Drug-induced parkinsonism -- Medical management of PD -- Surgical treatment of PD -- Management of other problems in PD -- Multiple system atrophy (MSA) -- Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) -- Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) -- Peripheral nerve disorders: introduction and clinical approach -- Diagnosis of peripheral nerve disorders -- Investigations in peripheral nerve disorders -- Diabetic neuropathies -- Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) -- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) -- Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block (MMN-CB) -- Vasculitic neuropathy -- Muscle disorders: classification and features -- Muscle disorders: investigations -- Dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and inclusion body myositis -- Motor neuron disease: introductions and clinical features -- Motor neuron disease: investigations and management -- Multiple sclerosis: introduction and clinical features -- Multiple sclerosis: investigations and diagnosis -- Multiple sclerosis: management -- Myasthenia gravis: introduction, clinical features, and investigations -- Myasthenia gravis: management -- Paraneoplastic disorders: introduction -- Paraneoplastic syndromes: central nervous system -- Paraneoplastic syndromes: peripheral nervous system -- Paraneoplastic syndromes: investigations and management -- Vertigo, dizziness, and unsteadiness: introduction -- Dizziness, unsteadiness, or 'off balance': neurological causes -- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) -- Dizzyness, unsteadiness, or 'off balance': non-neurological causes -- Neurogenetic disorders: introduction -- Hereditary ataxias -- Genetic neuropathies -- Inherited myopathies.

Myotonic dystrophy (MD) -- Inherited movement disorders -- Inherited mitochondrial disorders -- Inherited dementias -- Inherited neurocutaneous syndromes -- Hereditary metabolic diseases -- Infectious disease: bacterial meningitis -- Viral encephalitis -- Neurology of HIV/AIDS: introduction -- Neurological disorders due to HIV -- Opportunistic infections associated with HIV -- MRI images in infectious diseases -- Lumbar puncture -- Intravenous immunoglobulin (IV Ig) -- Diagnosis of brainstem death -- 5 Neurosurgery -- Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) -- Imaging of SAH: examples -- Spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) -- Imaging of ICH: examples -- Cerebral aneurysms -- Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVM) -- Cavernous haemangioma (cavernoma) and developmental venous anomaly (DVA) -- Dural arteriovenous fistulae (dAVF) -- Hydrocephalus -- Complications of shunts -- Intracranial tumours -- Intracranial tumours: management of specific tumours -- Imaging of intracranial tumours: examples -- Imaging of spinal tumours: examples -- Head injuries (HI) -- Management of specific head injuries -- Imaging of head injuries: examples -- Spinal injuries -- Imaging spinal injuries: examples -- Degenerative spinal conditions: cervical spine -- Degenerative spinal conditions: thoracic and lumbar spine -- Imaging of degenerative spinal conditions: examples -- Developmental abnormalities -- Imaging of developmental abnormalities: examples -- Syringomyelia -- 6 Clinical neurophysiology -- Introduction -- Electroencephalography (EEG): introduction -- EEG: use and abuse -- EEG: abnormal rhythms -- EEG and epilepsy -- EEG and diffuse cerebral dysfunction -- EEG in the intensive care unit -- Technical summary of nerve conduction studies (NCS) -- Peripheral nerve disorders: NCS abnormalities -- Technical summary of needle electromyography (EMG).

Needle EMG: patterns of abnormality -- NCS and needle EMG findings in myopathies and motor axonal loss -- NCS and needle EMG findings in Guillain-Barré syndrome -- NCS and needle EMG findings in neuromuscular transmission disorders -- Visual evoked responses (VERs) -- Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) -- Brainstem auditory evoked responses (BAERs) -- Normal values in clinical neurophysiology -- 7 Neuroradiology -- Techniques in diagnostic radiology -- Cerebrovascular disease -- Subarachnoid haemorrhage -- Intracerebral haemorrhage -- Guidelines for head injury -- Imaging strategies for cervical spine trauma -- Guidelines for the neuroradiology of tumours -- CNS infections -- Appendices -- 1 Neurological disability scales -- 2 Clinical pearls -- 3 Neurological eponyms -- 4 Useful websites -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.