This textbook takes as a premise that, in order to make intelligent diagnosis and provide a rational treatment in disorders of the nervous system, it is necessary to develop the capacity to answer the basic questions of clinical neurology:

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Section I:Introduction to Basic Neurobiology.- 1. Overview of the nervous system.- 2. Overview of localization of function and neurological diagnosis.- 3. Neurocytology.- 4. Neuroembryology.- 5.Basic Physiology.- Section II: Regional Approach to Neuroanatomy and Localization.- 6. Skeletal Muscle and Nerve-Muscle Junction.- 7. Spinal Cord: Structure and Physiology.- 8. Disease of Peripheral Nerve and Nerve Root.- 9. Clinical Considerations of the Spinal Cord.- 10. Case History Problem Solving Part I: Spinal Cord, Nerve Root.- 11. Functional Anatomy of the Brain Stem.- 12. Cranial Nerves.- 13. Brain Stem: Clinical Considerations.- 14. Case History Problem Solving Part II: Brain Stem and Cranial Nerves.- 15. Diencephlaon.- Section III: Major Systems.- 16. Hypothalamus, Neuroendocrine and Autonomic systems.- 17. Cerebral cortex, Cytoarchitecture, Functional localization.- 18. Motor System I: Reflex Activity and Cortical Motor Function.- 19. Motor System III: Basal Ganglia and Movement Disorders.- 20. Motor System III: Cerebellum and Movement.- 21. Somatosensory Function and the Parietal Lobe.- 22. Limbic System.- 23. Visual system.- 24. Speech, Language, Cerebral Dominance and the Aphasias.- 25. Case History Problem Solving III: Cortical Localization.- 26. Disease of the Cerebral Hemispheres: I: Vascular Syndromes.- 27. Disease of the Cerebral Hemispheres: II. Non Vascular.- 28. Case History Problem Solving IV: Cerebral Hemispheres.- Section IV: Complex Functions.- 29. Alterations in Consciousness: Seizures, Coma, and Sleep.- 30. Learning, Memory, Amnesia, Dementias.- 31. Case History Problem Solving: V: Part I General Case Histories.- 31 A. Case History Problem Solving V: Part II General Case Histories.