How to Examine the Nervous System

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ross, R. T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2006.
• Edition: Fourth Edition.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Now reissued by popular demand, this acclaimed and seminal textbook by one of North America's most respected neurologists simplifies the apparent complexity of the neurological examination to make it completely understandable and satisfying to perform. With simple prose and numerous helpful ill...

Table of Contents:

• The Ophthalmoscope, the Fundus Oculi, and Central and Peripheral Vision
• Loss of Vision
• The Abnormal Retina
• Eye Movements, Diplopia, and Cranial Nerves 3,4, and 6
• Ptosis and the Pupils: Myasthenia Gravis and Other Diseases of the Eye and Eyelid Muscles
• Nystagmus
• Conjugate Gaze Palsies and Forced Conjugate Deviation
• Cranial Nerves 1,5, and 7
• Cranial Nerves 8–12
• The Upper Limb
• The Lower Limb
• Stance, Gait, and Balance
• Reflexes
• Sensation
• The Cerebellum
• The Corticospinal System
• Higher Cortical Functions: Intelligence and Memory
• Disorders of Speech.