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A succinct, symptom orientated pocket guide to the diagnosis, treatment, and management of common neurologic disorders.Each chapter opens with a clinical case study and proceeds to classification of symptoms, history, physical examination, laboratory tests, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, treatment, and management.The book also includes a chapter on differential diagnoses of less common conditions as well as an appendix of drug tables. Also featured are major revisions of chapters on localisation, muscle weakness, central nervous system infections, AIDS, pain treatment, increased intracranial pressure, and traumatic brain injury.