Merritt's Neurology Handbook

Book excerpt: Designed for portability and quick reference on the wards and in other clinical settings, this handbook presents the essentials of Merritt's Neurology, Eleventh Edition. The handbook follows the text chapter by chapter, presenting key information on signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, and neurologic disorders in an easy-to-scan numbered-list format. This pocket-sized reference is perfect for students, residents, and practitioners who need the clinical information from Merritt's in a format that is practical for on-the-spot consultation. This edition features new chapters on endovascular surgical neuroradiology and on psychiatric conditions—schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety, and somatoform disorders. Other new chapters cover disorders of DNA translation, pachymeningitis, and Hashimoto encephalopathy.