Crash Course Neurology and Ophthalmology
For UKMLA and Medical Exams
- 6th Edition - March 9, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Rubika Balendra, Lakhan Ajmeria
- Editors: Umesh Vivekananda, Philip Xiu, Jonathan Yu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 5 5 6 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 5 8 4 - 4
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A winning formula now for over 25 years, having sold over 1 million copies and translated in over 8 languages, each series volume has been fine-tuned and fully updated with a full-colour layout tailored to make your life easier. Especially written by senior students or junior doctors – those who understand what is essential for exam success – with all information thoroughly checked and quality assured by expert Faculty Advisers, the result is books that exactly meet your needs and you know you can trust.
Each chapter guides you succinctly through the full range of curriculum topics in the UKMLA syllabus, integrating clinical considerations with the relevant basic science and avoiding unnecessary or confusing detail. A range of text boxes help you get to the hints, tips and key points you need fast! A fully revised self-assessment section matching the latest exam formats is included to check your understanding and aid exam preparation. The accompanying enhanced, downloadable eBook completes this invaluable learning package.
Series volumes have been honed to meet the requirements of today’s medical students, although the range of other health students and professionals who need rapid access to the essentials of neurology and ophthalmology will also love the unique approach of Crash Course. Whether you need to get out of a fix or aim for a distinction Crash Course is for you!
Crash Course Neurology and Ophthalmology: For UKMLA and Medical Exams, Sixth Edition integrates ophthalmology into the popular neurology title, combining two interconnecting fields in one thorough overview. It serves as an invaluable revision resource for medical finals. Additionally, this new edition includes essential chapters on neurological emergencies and functional neurological disorders, along with the latest updates on neurology guidelines.
- Fully aligned to UKMLA requirements, with key ‘conditions’ and ‘presentations’ highlighted in handy checklists - save valuable revision time and be confident you have the syllabus covered
- Written by senior students and recent graduates - those closest to what is essential for exam success
- Quality assured by leading Faculty Advisors - ensures complete accuracy of information
- Features the ever popular 'Hints and Tips' boxes and other useful aide-mémoires - distilled wisdom from those in the know
- Updated self-assessment section matching the latest exam formats – confirm your understanding and improve exam technique fast
- Instructions for online access
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- How to use
- Copyright
- Series editor’s foreword
- Prefaces
- Acknowledgements
- Series editor’s acknowledgement
- Rapid UKMLA Index
- Section 1. History, Examination and Common investigations
- 1. Taking a history
- The neurological history
- Structure of the history
- The Ophthalmic history
- 2. The examination
- The Neurological examination
- Mental state and higher cerebral functions
- Speech
- Gait
- Cranial nerves
- The motor system
- The sensory system
- General examination
- 3. Further investigations
- Routine investigations
- Neurophysiological investigations
- Imaging of the nervous system
- Lumbar puncture
- Section 2. The Patient Presents With
- 4. Neurological emergencies
- Acute ischaemic stroke
- Spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage
- Neuromuscular bulbar/respiratory crisis
- 5. Disturbances of consciousness
- Transient loss of consciousness
- Coma
- Brainstem death
- 6. Disorders of higher cerebral function
- Frontal lobe
- Parietal lobe
- Temporal lobe
- Occipital lobe
- 7. Headache
- Incidence
- History
- Examination
- Migraine
- Management
- Cluster headache
- Other neurological causes of headache and craniofacial pain
- Nonneurological
- 8. Disorders of smell and taste
- Differential diagnosis
- Examination
- Investigations
- 9. Facial sensory loss and weakness
- The trigeminal nerve
- Differential diagnosis of facial sensory loss
- Facial nerve
- 10. Deafness, tinnitus, dizziness and vertigo
- Deafness and tinnitus
- The auditory system
- Differential diagnosis of deafness
- The vestibular system
- 11. Dysarthria, dysphonia and dysphagia
- Definitions
- Dysarthria
- Dysphagia
- Dysphonia
- 12. Cerebellar dysfunction
- Blood supply
- Clinical features of cerebellar dysfunction
- Localization of a cerebellar lesion
- 13. Movement disorders
- Anatomical basis and classification of movement disorders
- The hyperkinetic movement disorders: tremor and dystonia
- Hyperkinetic movement disorders: chorea, tics and myoclonus
- 14. Limb weakness
- Neuroanatomy
- Upper motor neurone weakness
- Upper motor neurone syndromes
- Lower motor neurone weakness
- Lower motor neurone syndromes
- Disorders of the neuromuscular junction
- Myopathy
- 15. Limb sensory symptoms
- Dorsal (posterior) column pathway
- Spinothalamic pathway
- Trophic skin changes and ulcers
- Sensory syndromes
- 16. Disorders of gait
- Practical approach to the assessment of gait
- Differential diagnosis of gait disorders
- 17. The red, painful eye
- Differential Diagnosis
- History
- Duration of symptoms
- Associated symptoms
- 18. Gradual change in vision
- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
- HISTORY
- EXAMINATION
- INVESTIGATIONS
- 19. Sudden change in vision
- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
- EXAMINATION
- INVESTIGATIONS
- 20. Eyelid problems and the bulging eye
- EYELID MALPOSITION
- Ptosis
- EYELID LUMPS AND BUMPS
- EYELID SWELLING
- PROPTOSIS
- Section 3. Diseases and Disorders
- 21. Dementia
- Definition
- Differential diagnoses
- Epidemiology
- General clinical features
- Examination
- Investigations
- Management
- Primary neurodegenerative dementias
- 22. Epilepsy
- Definitions
- Epidemiology
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- History and investigations to aid diagnosis
- Differential diagnoses
- Drug treatment
- Status epilepticus
- Neurosurgical treatment of epilepsy
- Mortality of epilepsy
- Driving and epilepsy
- 23. Parkinson’s disease and other extrapyramidal disorders
- Akinetic–rigid syndromes
- Neuroleptic-induced movement disorders
- Restless leg syndrome
- 24. Diseases affecting the spinal cord (myelopathy)
- Anatomy
- The clinical syndromes of spinal cord disease
- Causes of spinal cord disease
- Infective lesions
- Epidural haemorrhage and haematoma
- Vascular cord lesions
- Inflammatory lesions and transverse myelitis
- Metabolic and toxic cord disease
- Intrinsic cord lesions
- 25. Motor neurone disease
- Types and clinical features of motor neurone disease
- Pathogenesis
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- 26. Radiculopathy and plexopathy
- Anatomy
- Radiculopathy (spinal nerve root lesions)
- Plexopathies
- 27. Disorders of the peripheral nerves
- Anatomy
- Definitions of neuropathies
- Neuropathy symptoms
- Investigation of peripheral neuropathy
- Specific neuropathies
- 28. Disorders of the neuromuscular junction
- Myasthenia gravis
- Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome
- Other myasthenic syndromes
- Botulinum toxin
- 29. Disorders of skeletal muscle
- Anatomy
- Clinical features of muscle disease (myopathy)
- Investigation of muscle disease
- Specific diseases
- 30. Vascular diseases of the nervous system
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Cerebrovascular involvement in vasculitis
- Intracranial haemorrhage
- Cerebral venous thrombosis
- Dissection
- Vascular disease of the spinal cord
- 31. Neuro-oncology
- Types of intracranial tumour
- Clinical features of intracranial tumours
- Investigations
- Treatment
- Prognosis
- Neurological complications of cancer
- 32. Infections of the nervous system
- General conditions
- Specific organisms and their associated diseases
- 33. Multiple sclerosis
- Epidemiology
- Pathogenesis
- Pathology
- Clinical features
- Differential diagnosis
- Investigations
- Diagnosis
- Management
- Other central demyelinating diseases
- 34. The effects of vitamin deficiencies and toxins on the nervous system
- Vitamin deficiencies
- Toxins
- 35. Autoimmune conditions affecting the nervous system
- Introduction
- Antibody-mediated encephalitis
- Antibodies targeting the peripheral nervous system
- Antibodies targeting muscle
- 36. Hereditary conditions affecting the nervous system
- The neurocutaneous syndromes
- Hereditary ataxias
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- 37. Functional neurological disorders
- Dissociative/nonepileptic attacks/seizures
- Functional weakness
- Functional tremor
- Assessment and management of functional neurological disorders
- 38. Adnexal (eyelids, lacrimal system and orbit)
- EYELID
- Benign tumours
- Malignant tumours
- Eyelid malpositions
- LACRIMAL SYSTEM
- ORBITAL DISEASE
- 39. Anterior segment (cornea and cataract)
- CORNEA
- Trauma
- CATARACT
- Systemic disease
- 40. Glaucoma
- INTRODUCTION
- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
- GLAUCOMA EXAMINATION
- PRIMARY GLAUCOMAS
- TREATMENT
- 41. Retina
- INTRODUCTION
- RETINAL VASCULAR DISEASE
- Treatment
- AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION
- POSTERIOR VITREOUS DETACHMENT
- RETINAL DETACHMENT
- 42. Medical ophthalmology and uveitis
- CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES
- VASCULITIDES
- UVEITIS
- HIV
- 43. Neuro-ophthalmology
- INTRODUCTION
- ANATOMY
- PUPILLARY DISORDERS
- MOTILITY DISORDERS
- OPTIC NERVE DISEASE
- OPTIC DISC SWELLING
- CHIASMAL DISEASE
- Self-Assessment
- UKMLA High Yield Association Table
- UKMLA Single Best Answer (SBA) questions
- UKMLA SBA answers
- OSCEs and Short Clinical Cases
- Glossary
- Index
- Edition: 6
- Published: March 9, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443115561
- eBook ISBN: 9780443115844
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Umesh Vivekananda
Affiliations and expertise
Specialist Registrar in Neurology, St. George's Hospital, London, UKPX
Philip Xiu
Philip Xiu a GP Registrar, Yorkshire Deanery, Leeds, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
GP Registrar, Yorkshire Deanery, Leeds, UK