Stroke Syndromes

Caplan (neurology, Harvard Medical School) and Gijn (neurology, U. Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands) present 53 chapters contributed by neurologists, neuroscientists, and other clinicians from the US, Europe, Korea, and Argentina, who help clinicians in neurology assess and diagnose all types of neurological, neurophysiological, and other clinical dysfunctions due to stroke. They address clinical manifestations such as hemiparesis and other types of motor weakness, sensory abnormalities, cerebellar ataxia, cognitive and behavioral manifestations, headache, visual dysfunction and symptoms, vestibular syndromes and vertigo, auditory disorders, abnormal movements, seizures, sleep-wake disturbances, coma and abnormal consciousness, aphasia, agitation and delirium, memory loss, dementia, mood disorders, muscle and peripheral nerve manifestations, cardiac and autonomic manifestations, dysarthria, dysphagia and aspiration, and respiratory dysfunction, and various vascular topographic syndromes and their clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, imaging, complications, and other facets. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)