Neurology Board Review. Questions and Answers

Description

• This is a board review book to prepare for the ABPN;
• Easy and user friendly guide;
• Contains many helpful references, illustrations, and tables

This is an easy to read question and answer book that was created to prepare the reader for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) certification and recertification exams. It was specifically designed to cover the topics listed in the ABPN content outline including basic neuroscience, behavioral neurology, psychiatry, and clinical neurology. It includes questions about recent practice parameters published by the American Academy of Neurology. This book utilizes a multitude of question formating, including case-based and multiple choice questions.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Autonomic Nervous System
Chapter 2 Behavioral Neurology
Chapter 3 Cerebrovascular Disease
Chapter 4 Congenital Disorders Including Neurocutaneous Disorders
Chapter 5 Critical Care and Trauma
Chapter 6 Dementia
Chapter 7 Demyelinating Diseases and Neuroimmunology
Chapter 8 Epilepsy
Chapter 9 Metabolic Disorders
Chapter 10 Movement Disorders
Chapter 11 Neuroanatomy
Chapter 12 Neurochemistry
Chapter 13 Neurogenetics
Chapter 14 Neuroinfectious Disease
Chapter 15 Neurologic Complications of Systemic Diseases
Chapter 16 Neuromuscular Disease
Chapter 17 Neuro-oncology
Chapter 18 Neuro-ophthalmology
Chapter 19 Neuro-otology
Chapter 20 Neuropathology
Chapter 21 Neuropharmacology
Chapter 22 Neurophysiology
Chapter 23 Neurotoxicology
Chapter 24 Pain and Headache
Chapter 25 Pediatric Neurology
Chapter 26 Psychiatry
Chapter 27 Sleep Disorders
Chapter 28 Substance Abuse
Chapter 29 Vitamin Deficiency and Excess

Author

Amy McGregor, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA 

Dr. Amy McGregor was born in St. Louis, Mo. She attended college at Haverford College in Philadelphia. She went to medical school at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis. She did my pediatric residency, pediatric neurology residency, and clinical neurophysiology fellowship at University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. She is currently a pediatric epileptologist in Memphis, TN at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital.