Essentials of Clinical Neurology

Program Evaluation:A Different Function for Logbook

Introduction: Various studies show that Log book can be also used in evaluation of medical course curriculum in clinical level in addition to evaluation of students’ achievement and their level of competencies. This article was to investigate the applicability of this new usage of Log book . Methods: Logbooks were designed by faculty members through various sessions in clinical departments in...

The bare essentials: coma.

Essentials of Clinical Neurology: Neurologic Complications Of Systemic Diseases

Systemic medical conditions may cause central and peripheral nervous system dysfunction. It is important to recognize that the function of all organ systems is to keep the brain alive. If treatment is initiated for systemic organ failure (i.e., medication, transplantation, surgery), these may be associated with other types of neurological disorders. Rather than memorizing lists of neurological ...

The bare essentials: hyperkinetic movement disorders: shakes, jumps and jolts.

2010;10:114–123. doi:10.1136/ jnnp.2010.206078 114 INTRODUCTION Movement disorders involve either too much or too little movement. One of the most common and important is Parkinson’s disease where there is a mixture of too little (bradykinesia) and too much movement (tremor and drug induced dyskinesia); this is the subject for a future Bare Essentials article and will not be considered here. Hy...

The bare essentials: Functional symptoms in neurology.

Correspondence to: Dr J Stone, Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK; [email protected] IS IT YOUR JOB AS A NEUROLOGIST TO DEAL WITH THIS PROBLEM? If you find people with ‘‘neurological symptoms but no disease’’ tiresome and not really what you came in to the specialty for, then yo...

Nerve conduction studies: essentials and pitfalls in practice.

Correspondence to: Dr Arup Mallik, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK; [email protected]. uk _________________________ A neurologist has sent a patient for nerve conduction studies (NCS) and has received the report, but what does it mean? We hope to remove some of the mysteries that may surround NCS. ...