DESCRIPTION:
- Includes nearly 200 brief, but substantial survey articles on all the major disorders of the nervous system in both adults and children
- Includes relevant diagnoses and treatment from the perspective of cutting edge clinical and basic neurobiological research
- Each chapter is illustrated with detailed figures, supplemented with descriptive and diagnostic tables, and thoroughly referenced for further investigations
- Written by clinicians who are experts in their fields and active participants in clinical and basic research

CONTENTS:
SECTION I: Movement Disorders (Joel Perlmutter, Washington University)
SECTION II: Dementias (David Knopman, Mayo Clinic)
SECTION III: Motorneuron Diseases (Merit Cudkowicz, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University)
SECTION IV: Paroxysmal Disorders (Solomon Moshe, Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
SECTION V: Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Disorders (Tanjala Gipson and Deepa Menon, Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University)
SECTION VI: Neuroimmunological Diseases (Carlos Pardo-Villamizar, Johns Hopkins University)
SECTION VII: Cerebrovascular Diseases (Harold Adams, University of Iowa)
SECTION VIII: Peripheral and Autonomic Nervous System Disorders and Pain (Nicholas Maragakis, Johns Hopkins University)
SECTION IX: Neoplastic and Paraneoplastic Diseases
SECTION X: Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System (Karen Roos, Indiana University)
SECTION XI: Sleep Disturbances (Mark Dyken, University of Iowa)
SECTION XII: Substance Abuse and Toxicological Disorders (Barry Kosofsky, Weil-Cornell University Medical Centers)
SECTION XIII: Neurologic Manifestations of Medical Disorders (John Probasco, Johns Hopkins University)