Updated, revised and organized, the new Second Editions in the Clinical Sciences Series reflect the format of the USMLE Step 2. Each volume systematically presents the core information of a single segment of the medical curriculum, from Family Medicine to Psychiatry. You will also learn time-honored tricks of the trade,as well as the latest advances in clinical medicine: new diagnostic tools, new therapeutic interventions, and new pharmacologic options.

Contents: Neurologic Exam and Neurodiagnostic Tests.- Stroke.- Epilepsy and Seizures.- Headache and Craniofacial Pain.- Toxic, Metabolic, and Nutritional Diseases.- Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases.- Coma and Impaired Consciousness.- Central Nervous System Trauma.- Peripheral Nervous System Disorders.- Dizziness and Vertigo.- Central Nervous System Neoplasms.- Movement Disorders.- Central Nervous Systems Infections.- Spinal Column Disease.- Sleep Disorders.- Multiple Sclerosis and Demyelination.- Developmental Disorders.- Selected additional reading; Self-assessment examination; Answers to self-assessment examinations.

The United States Congress has designated the 1990s as the "Decade of the Brain" in recognition of the major importance of neurology and the other neurosciences in the health and well-being of Americans. It has been suggested that as many as 20% of all patients seeking medical treatment have neurologic problems, either as the presenting complaint or as an associated condition complicating the primary illness. Thus, it is fitting that Springer-Verlag should acknowledge the prominence of this medical specialty area by devoting an entire volume of the Oklahoma Notes series to neurology and clinical neuroscience. Of course, this text is an outline overview and does not attempt to provide ency clopedic coverage of neurology (the student desiring a comprehensive review of the field may wish to seek in the library the 60 + volumes in the series Handbook of Clinical Neurology edited by Pierre J. Vinken and George W. Bruyn). However, the information selected for inclusion in this volume of the Oklahoma Notes series remains true to the goal of the whole series-only materials vital in both the general clinical practice of medicine and to answer questions on the all-important United States Medical Licensing Examination have been incorporated in the text. Roger A. Brumback, M.D.