Insights into Clinical Neurology

Robert Laureno is Professor of Neurology at the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington DC. He has been Chair of Neurology at the Medstar Washington Hospital Center for forty years. Dr Laureno is an expert on the neurology of systemic disease and is author of Foundations for Clinical Neurology (2017) and Raymond Adams: A Life of Mind and Muscle (2009). He has received numerous teaching awards.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The amnesic syndrome; 2. Aphasia, apraxia and agnosia; 3. Spurious symptoms and behaviors; 4. Hallucinations; 5. Grasping and the grasp reflex; 6. Asterixis; 7. Discussion of the upper motor neuron syndrome; 8. Some aspects of the lower motor neuron syndrome; 9. The limbic 'system'; 10. Vibration sensation, the posterior columns and related topics; 11. Trans neuronal effects; 12. Spinal nerve roots; 13. Ischemic-Hypoxic encephalopathy; 14. The liver-brain relationship in Wilson disease; 15. Wernicke disease; 16. Delayed neurologic disorders after a toxic or metabolic insult; 17. Transolfactory spread in the pathogenesis of meningoencephalitis; 18. Neurologic disorders in endocarditis; 19. Secondary abscess formation in primary brain lesions; 20. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: the early years; Index.