Fundamentals of Veterinary Clinical Neurology offers a comprehensive yet practical overview of clinical neurology, providing clinicians and students with the unabridged knowledge they need to examine, diagnose, and treat disorders and diseases of the nervous system.

Fundamentals of Veterinary Clinical Neurology covers all of the important considerations necessary for clinical evaluation of small animals with neurologic disease. Coverage includes:

• basic concepts of nervous system functioning
• clinical examination and problem identification associated with nervous system disease
• neuroanatomical diagnosis
• differential diagnosis (diseases of the nervous system)
• diagnostic testing, therapy, and clinical management of common and important neurologic conditions

Contents

Part I: Fundamentals of Clinical Evaluation

1. Neuroanatomy
2. Pathophysiology
3. Clinical Neurologic examination
4. Neuroanatomical Diagnosis
5. Diseases of the Intracranial Nervous system
6. Diseases of the Spinal cord
7. Diseases of the Peripheral nervous system, Neuromuscular junction, and Muscle
8. Formulation of the Differential diagnosis
9. Basics of diagnostic testing
10. Diagnosis of Intracranial Disease
11. Diagnosis of Spinal Cord Disease
12. Diagnosis of Peripheral nervous system, Neuromuscular junction, and Muscle
13. Treatment of Intracranial disease
14. Treatment of Spinal Disease
15. Treatment of Peripheral nervous system, Neuromuscular junction, and Muscle

Part II Common Clinical Problems

16. Alterations of Consciousness
17. Seizures
18. Vestibular Disease
19. Abnormalities of vision and pupils
20. Neurotrauma
21. Assessment of animals with gait abnormalities
22. Assessment of Painful animals
23. Neurotrauma

Appendices

• Brain MR atlas
• Breed-associated neurologic disease
• Anticonvulsants
• Vision and pupil cases
• Practice clinical cases

Index

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