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Crash Course! is a revision series for students on system based and integrated courses. An illustrated outline format in bite-sized chunks makes the content easy to absorb. Hints and Tips and Comprehension Check boxes are built-in features designed to make the series student-friendly. A practice exam at the end enables students to assess their level of understanding.The Basic Science titles are written by medical students for medical students under faculty supervision, the content focuses in on what medical students really need to know.The Clinical titles are written by a senior consultant and a junior doctor who has recent experience of being a student - again making the books as relevant as possible for current medical students Features# Text in outline format makes information easy to access and take in.# Hints and Tips boxes give advice on how to remember key content.# Comprehension Check Boxes give questions throughout text to check understanding# Highly illustrated in 2 colour to help understanding and retention of information.Back to topWhat's New# Part I (symptom-based) to be more concise with differential diagnosis boxes for common diseases and disorders# Comprehension Check Boxes in Part III making books extra-efficient as both quick reference and revision tool# New junior authors from broader base makes series more responsive to differences in undergraduate clinical training# More self-assessment means more exam practiceBack to topContents Part I: The Patient Presents With: 1. Disorders of Higher Cerebral Function 2. Disturbances of Consciousness 3. Headache 4. Disorders of Smell 5. Visual Impairment 6. Disorders of the Pupils and Eye 7. Facial Sensory Loss and Weakness 8. Deafness, Tinnitus, Dizziness and Vertigo 9. Dysarthria, Dysphonia, and Dysphagia 10. Cerebellar Dysfunction 11. Movement Disorders 12. Limb Weakness 13. Limb Sensory Symptoms 14. Disorders of Gait Part II: Diseases and Disorders 15. Dementia 16. Epilepsy 17. Headache and Craniofacial Pain 18. ParkinsonÕs Disease, other Extrapyramidal Disorders and Myoclonus 19. Cranial Nerve 20. Diseases Affecting the Spinal Cord (Myelopathy) 21. Motor Neuron Disease 22. Radiculopathy and Plexopathy 23. Disorders of the Peripheral Nerves 24. Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction 25. Disorders of Skeletal Muscle 26. Vascular Diseases of the Nervous 27. Intracranial Tumours 28. Infections of the Nervous System 29. Multiple Sclerosis 30. Systemic Disease and the Nervous System 31. The Effects of Vitamin Deficiencies and Toxins on the Nervous System 32. Hereditary Conditions Affecting the Nervous System Part III: History, Examination and Common Investigations 33. Taking a History 34. The Neurological Examination 35. Sample Clerking 36. Further Investigations Part IV: Self-assessment Multiple-choice questions (MCQs), Short-answer questions (SAQs), Extended-matching questions (EMQs), Patient management problems (PMPs), Answers. Index