Neurology

Martin A. Samuels, MD, FAAN, MACP, FRCP, DSci (hon.), was a renowned neurologist and the founding Chairman of the Neurology Department at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. He held the Miriam Sydney Joseph Distinguished Chair for Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and was a recipient of the National Clinical Excellence Award from Johns Hopkins University, the Bicentennial Medal from Williams College, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, among many others. Dr. Samuels was board certified in both Internal Medicine and Neurology and was a Master of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, and a member of The American Neurological Association, and the Royal College of Physicians, London. He created the Manual of Neurologic Therapeutics and was incredibly influential to the development of the field of neurological medicine in the interface between internal medicine and neurology.

• PrefaceSection 01: Cerbrovascular DiseasesCase 1: Convexity Hemorrhage and RCVS: <"Did She Fall or Was She Pushed?> "Case 2: Left Pontine Infarct (Not a Lacune) After a Diagnosis of FNDCase 3: Radiation Vascular Disease Causing Pontine Strokes: The Gift That Keeps on GivingCase 4: Dental Numbness and the Quintothalamic TractCase 5: Multiple Saccular AneurysmsCase 6: Budd-Chiari and Cortical Vein ThrombosisCase 7: Vermal Arteriovenous MalformationCase 8: Orthostatic ShakingSection 02: Cognitive and Behavioral DisordersCase 9: Aphasia and the InsulaCase 10: Transient Global AmnesiaCase 11: Anton-Babinski in Reverse and Denial of SeeingCase 12: Confusional StateSection 03: Movement DisordersCase 13: Multiple-System Atrophy, Parkinsonian Subtype (Shy-Drager Syndrome)Case14: Parkinsonism Perioperative DeliriumCase 15: Chorea Gravidarum and AcanthocytosisCase 16: Psychogenic OverlaySection 04: Seizure DisordersCase 17: ALL Treatment and Epilepsia Partialis ContinuaCase 18: First Seizure and a Right Parietal Lesion in a 65-Year-Old PilotCase19: Cursive Seizures and Epileptic PersonalitySection 05: Neoplastic DisordersCase 20: Glioblastoma Producing Transcortical Motor AphasiaCase 21: Lymphomatoid GranulomatosisCase 22: Hydrocephalus from Pineal Region GliomaCase 23: HerniationCase 24: Subacute Encephalopathy in a Woman with <"Gastric Cancer> "Cas 25: Cauda Equina Syndrome in an Immunocompromised PatientCase 26: Pituitary ApoplexyCase 27: Charles Bell X 2: Facial Palsy and Mental NumbnessCase 28: I Missed a GliomaCase 29: LymphomaSection 06: Headache and PainCase 30: CREST Neurology and Convexity Subarachnoid HemorrhageCase 31: Complicated Migraine with Cerebral Venous ThrombosisCase 32: Migrainous White SpotsCase 33: Acute Eye PainCase 34: Migraine in the ElderlyCase 35: Migraine: The Neurologist's FriendSection 07: Peripheral Nervous System DisordersCase 36: Amyloid NeuropathyCase 37: Weak in the ICU: Neurocritical Care NeuromyopathyCase 38: Microvascular Oculomotor PalsyCase 39: Nemaline MyopathyCase 40: Duchenne Dystrophy and Chronic HypoxiaCase 41: Necrotizing Statin MyopathySection 08: Metabolic and Toxic DisordersCase 42: Metabolic Encephalopathy from Osmotic ShiftsSection 09: Psychogenic DisordersCase 43: Psychogenic Weakness on the Left SideCase 44: MELAS + StressCase 45: A Dissociative StateCase 46: The Perils of FNDCase 47: The DTs ReturnCase 48: Psychogenic ParaplegiaSection 10: Spinal Fluid DisordersCase 49: The Froin-Nonne SignCase 50: <"A Thick Chart Means It's Either Psychogenic or a Syrinx> " H. Houston MerrettSection 11: Medical NeurologyCase 51: Neurocardiac LesionCase 52: Trousseau's DiseaseCase 53: Cobalamin DeficiencyCase 54: Trousseau's Syndrome with Pancreatic CancerCase 55: Cardiac Surgery-Related StrokeCase 56: ECMO and MigraineCase 57: Myeloproliferative Disorders, Hyperviscosity and Pseudo-dissectionSection 12: Infectious DiseasesCase 58: Orbital Cellulitis With Superior Ophthalmic Vein ThrombophlebitisCase 59: Antibiotic NeurotoxicityCase 60: Leptomeningitis and Ventriculitis in a Patient on SteroidsCase 61: Neutrophilic MeningoencephalitisCase 62: Infective EndocarditisCase 63: Lightning PainsCase 64: Hodgkin Disease, Stem Cell Transplant and Recurrent EncephalitisSection 13: Immune and Inflammatory DisordersCase 65: MS Acute Treatment and Disease Modifying Therapies (DMTs)Case 66: A Fatal Demyelinating DiseaseCase 67: One-and-a-Half SyndromeCase 68: Autoimmune EncephalitisSection 14: DizzinessCase 69: Chronic Dizziness and the Syndrome of Multiple Sensory DeficitsSection 15: Spinal Cord DisordersCase 70: Cervical MyelopathyCase 71: Myelopathy After Minor AccidentCase 72: Cervical Spondylosis in an 81-Year-Old Woman