How to Think Like a Neurologist: A Case-Based Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Neurology

How to Think Like a Neurologist flips  the neurology educational narrative on its head and attempts to lift the  veil of neurophobia to show how neurologists use critical thinking and  clinical reasoning to diagnose neurologic diseases.

This book aims to provide a practical  representation of the modern-day practice of medicine, where the good  clinical neurologist is no longer seen as somebody who somehow carries  encyclopedic knowledge of every medical condition. Rather, they  appropriately recognize and categorize findings, and then, having  narrowed the possibilities, they do the necessary additional research in  order to appropriately diagnose and treat the patient.

This case-based volume focuses not on  the diseases themselves, but rather on the clinical methods used to  identify neurologic diseases, and the method is disarmingly simple. The  cases in this book are a fascinating collection of oddities and  rarities, but the diseases themselves in this book are merely the vessel  through which clinical reasoning is taught. By the end of the book,  readers are empowered with a foundation they can apply in their own  clinical practice.