Title page; Preface; Contents; Vascular Disease; Ischemic Stroke; Venous Strokes; Medical Causes of Stroke; Cerebral Emboli; Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy; Chronic Small Vessel Disease; Hemorrhagic Vascular Disease; Epilepsy; Introduction; Generalized Seizures; Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy; Partial Seizures; Status Epilepticus; Pseudoseizure; Genetic Aspects of Seizures; Unusual Seizures and Concomitant Medical Conditions; Differential Diagnosis of Seizure Disorder vs Syncope; Anterior Horn Cell Disease that Affects Adult Patients
Summary
The essence of 'differential diagnosis' is 'splitting' rather than 'lumping'. It requires bringing knowledge to the table and then adding experience. Based on the author's daily morning reports with neurology residents, this book is meant to be a skeleton that gives the clinician a general background with regard to the disease at hand
