Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Approach to the patient with neurologic problem: key steps in neurological diagnosis and treatment -- Neurologic examination -- Common neurologic tests -- Disorders of muscle -- Disorders of the neuromuscular junction -- Disorders of peripheral nerves -- Disorders of the spinal cord and vertebral bodies -- Disorders of the brainstem and cerebellum -- Disorders of the cerebrovascular system -- Disorders of myelin -- Disorders of higher cortical function -- Disorders of the extrapyramidal system -- Infections of the Nervous System -- Brain tumors -- Seizures and status epilepticus -- Cardiac arrest, coma and cerebral death -- Disorders of the developing nervous system -- Traumatic brain injury and subdural hematoma -- Neurologic complications of alcohol and B12 deficiency -- Disorders of pain and headache -- Disorders of the vestibular system -- Sleep.