BookStanley Jacobson, Elliott M. Marcus, Stanley Pugsley.
Summary: "This updated edition provides clinicians from various backgrounds and levels of training the information needed to optimally diagnose and manage neurologic complications of the nervous system. Organized into seven sections, this comprehensive volume begins with an overview of diagnostic studies for neurologic complications involving the nervous system. That is followed by sections on metastatic and non-metastatic complications of cancer involving the nervous system, and the interpretation, diagnosis, and management of common neuro-oncologic symptoms. The next section reviews the neurologic complications of cancer therapy, including corticosteroids, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, targeted molecular therapies, immunotherapies, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and infections involving the nervous system. The final section focuses on the most important neurologic complications in cancers arising from specific organs. In addition to capturing the latest advancements in the rapidly evolving fields of oncology and cancer neurology, the goal of this resource is to lead clinicians toward prompt diagnosis and intervention in order to improve patient quality of life"--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Introduction to the central nervous system
Neurocytology: cells of the CNS
Nueroembryology and congenital malformations
Spinal cord
Brain stem: gross anatomy
Brain stem functional localization
The cranial nerves
Diencephalon
Hypothalamus, neuroendrocrine system, and autonomic nervous system
Cerebral cortex functional localization
Motor system, movement, and motor pathways
Motor system II: basal ganglia
Motor systems III: the cerebellum movement and major fiber pathways of the cerebellum
Somatosensory functions and the parietal lobe
Visual system and occipital lobe
The limbic system, temporal lobe, and prefrontal cortex
Higher cortical functions
Cerebral vascular disease
Neuropathology, nonvascular: trauma, neoplasms, and communicable diseases
Non-nervous elements in the CNS
Case history problem solving
Movies on the brain
Descriptive atlas
Myelin-stained.