Saunders Manual Neurologic Practice

Section 1. Approach to symptoms and signs
1. The neurologic history and examination
2. Dizziness
3. Approach to symptoms and sign
4. Paresthesias
5. Pain
6. Headaches
7. Weakness (UMN vs LMN, NM junction, myopathy)
8. Movement disorders
9. Gait and balance disorders
10. Fatigue
11. Memory and praxis complaints
12. Speech disorders
13. Language disorders
14. Syncope vs seizure
15. Encephalophathy, coma, herniation, and brain death
16. Neurological eponyms

Section 2. Diagnostic Testing
1. Lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid evaluation
2. EMG and NCV
3. Electroencephalography
4. Evoked Potentials
5. Nerve and muscle biopsy
6. Autonomic testing
7. MRI
8. CT
9. MRA and cerebral angiography
10. Molecular genetic testing
11. Neuropsychological testing

Section 3. Neurovascular disorders
1. Localization in neurovascular disease
2. Transient ischemic attacks
3. Stroke
4. Primary intracerebral hemorrhage
5. Subarachnoid hemorrhage and saccular aneurysms
6. Arterovenous malformations
7. Spinal cord stroke
8. Stroke in younger adults
9. Cerebral venous thrombosis
10. Stroke in pregnancy (including pre-eclampsia and eclampsia)
11. Neurorehabilitation

Section 4. Dementia and amnestic disorders
1. Overview of dementia (epidemiology, differential diagnosis,
diagnostic testing)
2. Alzheimer's disease
3. Multi-infarct dementias
4. Subcortical dementias
5. Other causes of dementia (NPH, etc)
6. Transient global amnesia and other amnestic disorders

Section 5. Movement disorders
1. Parkinson's disease
2. Parkinson's plus syndromes
3. Hyperkinetic movement disorders
4. Dystonia
5. Tourette's syndrome
6. Non-resting tremors
7. Wilson's disease
8. Ataxias
9. Essential myoclonus

Section 6. Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases
1. Multiple sclerosis
2. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis

Section 7. Epilepsy
1. Etiology and manifestations
2. Childhood disorders (include febrile)
3. Adult seizure disorders
4. Medical treatment
5. Status epilepticus
6. Surgical treatment
7. Epilepsy and pregnancy
8. Starting and stopping medications
9. Driving and other restrictions

Sections 8. Neuro-oncology
1. Epidemiology and pathophysiology
2. Clinical presentations (altered ms, HA, szs, hydrocephalus,
focal findings)
3. Gliomas
4. Meningiomas
5. Congenital tumors (Rahke's cleft, others)
6. Skull base tumors
7. Other tumors (hemangioblastoma, glomus jugulare, carotid
body)
8. Spinal cord tumors
9. Metastatic tumors
10. Meningeal and spinal metastases
11. Paraneoplastic neurologic disorders
12. Complications of radiotherapy and chemotherapy
13. Cancer pain

Section 9. Neuro-otology and other cranial neuropathies
1. Diagnostic testing
2. Hearing loss
3. Tinnitus
4. Vertigo (peripheral vs central)
5. Benign positional vertigo
6. Bell's palsy and other VII (hemifacial spasm, benign eyelid
myokymia)
7. Disorders of smell and taste
8. Facial numbness (supranuclear, brainstem, preganglionic,
ganglion, periph, mental)
9. Disorders of cranial nerve IX and X
10. Disorders of cranial nerves XI and XII
11. Auditory hallucinations

Section 10. Neuro-ophthalmology
1. Optic neuritis
2. Optic neuropathy
3. Pupillary disorders
4. Ptosis, lid lag, and lid retraction
5. Ocular motor palsies
6. Nystagmus
7. Orbital disorders
8. Papilledema and pseudotumor cerebri
9. Visual illusions and hallucinations

Section 11. Headaches
1. Migraine
2. Tension - type, chronic daily headache, and drug - induced
headache
3. Medication rebound
4. Cluster headache
5. Brief head and facial pains
6. First or worst headaches
7. Headaches during childhood and adolescence
8. Headaches in women
9. Headaches in patients over the age of 50
10. Other headaches

Section 12. Sleep Disorders
1. Approach to sleep disorders and sleep stud