ABSTRACT

This new edition of Neurology for the Psychiatry Specialty Board Review, provides an accurate and comprehensive review of the most frequently encountered topics in the field of clinical neurology and neuroscience.The second edition features all new questions and provides answers and explanations that are referenced to standard textbooks. It offers a varied testing format, including clinical vignettes and matching, true-false, and multiple choice questions. The author consulted with medical students and faculty on incorporating new material. Neurology for the Psychiatry Specialty Board Review, Second Edition is a thorough and indispensable tool for preparing for the board certification or re-certification examination in psychiatry or neurology, for in-service training examinations, or simply as a test of the reader's knowledge of the field.

chapter 1|6 pages

NEUROANATOMY

chapter 2|8 pages

NEUROLOGICAL LOCALIZATION AND EXAMINATION

chapter 3|6 pages

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS

chapter 4|10 pages

HEADACHE AND PAIN SYNDROMES

chapter 5|6 pages

SPINAL CORD DISEASE; NECK AND BACK PAIN

chapter 6|12 pages

CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE

chapter 7|8 pages

SEIZURES AND EPILEPSY

chapter 8|6 pages

SYNCOPE, VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

chapter 9|6 pages

SLEEP STATES AND SLEEP DISORDERS

chapter 10|8 pages

DEMENTIA AND NEUROBEHAVIORAL DISORDERS

chapter 11|6 pages

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS

chapter 13|8 pages

DYSKINESIAS

chapter 14|4 pages

PERIPHERAL NERVE AND MOTOR NEURON DISEASE

chapter 15|6 pages

MUSCLE AND GAIT DISORDERS

chapter 18|4 pages

Impaired Consciousness-Stupor and Coma

chapter 19|4 pages

DEMYELINATING DISORDERS

chapter 20|6 pages

CHILDHOOD NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS