Vinken and Bruyn's Handbook of Clinical Neurology (HCN) is best characterized as an encyclopedia. In this paper we describe the origin, production, and reception of HCN. Data were gathered from a literature search, by screening of HCN-volumes, interviewing key-role persons and a study of an HCN-archive. The initiative for HCN was taken by two Excerpta Medica staff members, the one a strategist with expertise in information systems, the other a gifted neurologist with an expert knowledge of who is who in the world of neurological literature. Within a period of 38 years, 2799 authors, 28 volume editors, the two initiators, and a third chief editor for the American continent described the whole of neurology in 1909 chapters on all together 46,025 pages (excluding index volumes). HCN was sold mainly to medical institutes in affluent countries. A digital version of the revised edition was proposed by the editors but refused by the publisher for commercial reasons. HCN was in general well received by book reviewers. The main criticisms concerned the price of the volumes, lack of editorial control, inadequacy of indexes, and lack of cross references. HCN offers unrivalled information on the state of the art of the clinical neurosciences in the second half of the twentieth century. In addition, it contains extensive reviews of the history of neurological diseases in the volumes of the original edition.
The Handbook of Clinical Neurology has been part of the mythology of clinical neurology for trainees for many years. A huge series, both in physical size and in coverage, it attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject within more than 70 tomes. Now its reincarnation in series 26 has had to accommodate the enormous advances made in neurology over the last decade, including reclassification of diseases, evidence-based medicine, diagnostic techniques, as well as the ever increasing contribution of neurogenetics. In Volumes 70 and 71, the editors C. G. Goetz and M. J. Aminoff in Systemic Diseases Part II and III , have covered with some style the interface of general medicine with clinical neurology. They have called on an impressive list of international contributors to the not-inconsiderable task and attempted to present their reviews with some homogeneity of format, which is creditable given the diversity of the subjects covered. One of the considerable difficulties in creating books such as these must be to rein in the enthusiasm of some of the authors reviewing their chosen subjects and allow appropriate representation according to clinical importance. …
6Book reviews patient, the presence of concomitant medical disease, season of the year, duration of hospitalization, seniority of the surgeon, and the type of suture material were not found to be significant factors.The author is less certain about the use of antibacterial agents, especially topical bacitricin, in preventing infection.Most of the infections occurred in patients undergoing lumbar disc protrusion surgery.Surprisingly the author recommends excision and packing, and healing by secondary intention as the optimum method of treatment in these cases.No details are given regarding the ventilation of their operating theatres, but reference is made to the use in other hospitals of 'laminar' ventilation (better named 'unidirectional flow ventilation'), which has superseded ordinary plenum systems.There is no mention of the order of the infected operation case in the operating list, or the day of the week, or the apparent source of the infection.Nor are we told if the infections appeared sporadically or as an 'epidemic'.There is scanty reference to bacteriological aspects and this is a notable fault of this otherwise valuable study, which includes a useful survey of the literature on the subject of post-operative wound infections in general, and in neurosurgery in particular.
This volume on the<i>Disorders of Speech, Perception and Symbolic Behaviour</i>is the fourth in a projected series which will constitute a complete handbook of<i>Clinical Neurology</i>. The subjects just mentioned have been separated, wisely, in the opinion of this reviewer, from the more general neuropsychological functions such as attention, orientation and intelligence. The latter subjects have been dealt with independently in volume 3 of the series. The contributors also have shown wisdom in adopting a relatively simple formulation for the disorders of speech. Rather than utilizing some of the multiple category schemes for speech disorder which have been proposed in the past, the authors have used agnosia, aphasia, and apraxia as basic subdivisions. Moreover, they have given ample attention to the recognition of the difficulties which are inherent in attempting to define these three areas. The discussion of tactile agnosia as it relates to disorders of tactile recognition is
Edited by Harvey B Sarnat, Paolo Curatolo. . Published by Elsevier BV Amsterdam, 2008, pp 645. ISBN 978 0 444 51896 5 The 87th volume of the Handbook of clinical neurology , edited by Harvey Sarnat and Paolo Curtaolo, on “Malformations of the nervous system” gives the reader an excellent overview of human brain development and its malformations. It is divided into four sections: I–IV. Section I has 20 chapters dealing with classification and individual malformations, and section II has five chapters on comparative manifestations of central nervous system malformations. Section III with four chapters is dedicated to diagnostics, namely neuroimaging, clinical neurophysiology, molecular genetic testing, genetic counselling and neuropathology. Section IV has four chapters on management of these central nervous system malformations. At the beginning of …
This 802-page book is the second in the 30-volume series entitled<i>Handbook of Clinical Neurology</i>. The editors of this monumental effort are Dutch, and it is not surprising to find that they have selected many European authors. For the most part, the non-American contributors have done an excellent job, and it is of interest to read the opinions of authorities whose writings are encountered relatively infrequently. The physician seeing a patient with neurologic disease must devote his initial efforts to locating the abnormal process. It is only after mastering this first step that he can proceed to making an etiologic diagnosis. The nonneurologist is often discouraged by this apparently complex anatomical exercise. Hopefully, his book will make the task some-what easier, although the massive amount of material contained within its pages might in itself prove a handicap. In addition, the neophyte unable to determine whether the disease is in the
This is the third book in the 30-volume<i>Handbook of Clinical Neurology</i>edited by Vinken and Bruyn. This ambitious and monumental series is to appear over the next eight years, and no doubt it will represent an important and (hopefully) enduring contribution to the neurological literature. Unfortunately, this series is very expensive; the volume reviewed herein is $35, and prices of the other six books currently appearing range from $36 to $77. Unfortunately, these high costs will make the handbook generally unavailable to students, house staff, and libraries with limited budgets. This particular volume covers disorders of higher nervous activity. Some of the topics are esoteric; in many instances speculation must, of necessity, exceed solid scientific facts. Each chapter has a different author, and the contributors, all authorities in their particular area, are European, for the most part, with three being Russian. Thus, the viewpoint is somewhat different from that
A generation ago, anyone writing a neurological paper began his search of the literature with the Bumke-Foerster Handbuch der Neurologie . That modest compendium filled 18 volumes, and each chapter was a comprehensive monograph. The unmanageable growth of medical literature in the interim has affected neurology as it has all other specialties. A distinguished and international group of neurological leaders apparently decided in 1964 that a new handbook was needed to provide appropriate summaries of basic and clinical knowledge. We now have the first volume. This one differs from its predecessor in several respects. There are more chapters and more authors. The number of volumes will be greater, at least 30. Many continental neurologists contribute, but all the monographs are published in English and the translations seem quite good. The bibliographies are extensive but can not now be all-inclusive. These features are among the virtues of volume 1, and there are
Russell Meyers has defined the extrapyramidal system as that part of the motor system that is not pyramidal. And if that doesn't help, look at the area anatomically and call it the basal ganglia. But how many nuclei should be included is also not clear; nor are the 35 contributors to the 33 chapters clear on it either. But we can accept a fluidity of boundaries these days in every aspect of life, so it really doesn't matter. This elegant book, which no neurologic library can afford to be without (and which no neurologist can afford), is an excellent gathering of information on clinical aspects of various diseases of the structures, including Parkinson's disease, Wilson's disease, Huntington's and other choreas, and various dystonic diseases. The contributors are eminent in their fields, including such familiar names as Mettler, Raymond Adams, Denny-Brown, Schwab, and Purdon Martin. Function is covered generally and not
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Now in its tenth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine has been fully revised, with five new authors on the writing team bringing content fresh from the bedside. Space has been breathed into the design, with more core material at your fingertips in quick-reference lists and flow diagrams, and key references have been honed to the most up-to-date and relevant. Each page has been updated to reflect the latest changes in practice and best management, and the chapters on gastroenterology, history and examination, infectious disease, neurology, and radiology have been extensively revised. Unique among medical texts, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine is a complete and concise guide to the core areas of medicine that also encourages thinking about the world from the patient's perspective, offering a holistic, patient-centred approach. Loved and trusted by millions for over three decades, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine continues to be a truly indispensable companion for the practice of modern medicine.
OBJECTIVE: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder characterised by a large number of motor and non-motor features that can impact on function to a variable degree. This review describes the clinical characteristics of PD with emphasis on those features that differentiate the disease from other parkinsonian disorders. METHODS: A MedLine search was performed to identify studies that assess the clinical characteristics of PD. Search terms included "Parkinson's disease", "diagnosis" and "signs and symptoms". RESULTS: Because there is no definitive test for the diagnosis of PD, the disease must be diagnosed based on clinical criteria. Rest tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity and loss of postural reflexes are generally considered the cardinal signs of PD. The presence and specific presentation of these features are used to differentiate PD from related parkinsonian disorders. Other clinical features include secondary motor symptoms (eg, hypomimia, dysarthria, dysphagia, sialorrhoea, micrographia, shuffling gait, festination, freezing, dystonia, glabellar reflexes), non-motor symptoms (eg, autonomic dysfunction, cognitive/neurobehavioral abnormalities, sleep disorders and sensory abnormalities such as anosmia, paresthesias and pain). Absence of rest tremor, early occurrence of gait difficulty, postural instability, dementia, hallucinations, and the presence of dysautonomia, ophthalmoparesis, ataxia and other atypical features, coupled with poor or no response to levodopa, suggest diagnoses other than PD. CONCLUSIONS: A thorough understanding of the broad spectrum of clinical manifestations of PD is essential to the proper diagnosis of the disease. Genetic mutations or variants, neuroimaging abnormalities and other tests are potential biomarkers that may improve diagnosis and allow the identification of persons at risk.
INTERFACES OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY WITH MEDICINE AND PSYCHOLOGY: Clinical Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology: Similarities and Differences Interfaces between Neuropsychology and Health Psychology ASSESSMENT: The Psychometric Foundation of Clinical Neuropsychology Neurological Diagnostic Tests Nontraditional and Threshold Considerations in Neuropsychological Assessment An Approach to the Neuropsychological Assessment of the Preschool Child with Developmental Deficits The Assessment of Language after Brain Damage Effects of Sex and Handedness on Neuropsychological Testing Disease Process, Onset, and Course and their Relationship to Neuropsychological Performance DISORDERS: Neuropsychology and Medical Disorders Psychopathology and Other Behavioral Considerations for the Clinical Neuropsychologist Affective Disturbances Associated with Brain Damage Index.
Abstract Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) is a form of music therapy developed for people suffering from cognitive, sensory, or motor dysfunctions arising from neurological diseases of the nervous system. People who can benefit from this therapy include sufferers from stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, cerebral palsy, Alzheimer's disease, autism, and other neurological diseases affecting cognition, movement, and communication (e.g. muscular sclerosis, muscular dystrophy). The Handbook of Neurologic Music Therapy is a comprehensive landmark text presenting a new and revolutionary model of music in rehabilitation, therapy, and medicine that is scientifically validated and clinically tested. It represents a field that is practised by over 4,000 NMT=-certified clinicians in over 70 countries. In this second edition, the book is fully updated and revised with new research updates in the field, and it extends the original clinical chapter content.