Evidence-based Neurology: Management of Neurological Disorders -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part 1: Introduction -- 1. Evidence-based medicine: its contributions in the way we search, appraise and apply scientific information to patient care -- 2. What to do when there is no evidence -- 3. Outcome and adverse effect measures in neurology -- 4. Systematic reviews of diagnostic research -- Part 2: Neurological symptoms/problems -- 5. Acute migraine attacks -- 6. Back and neck pain -- 7. Neuropathic pain -- 8. Vertigo and dizziness: treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, vestibular neuritis and Menière's disease -- 9. Sleep disorders -- 10. Cognitive rehabilitation of non-progressive neuropsychological disorders -- 11. Management and pharmaceutical treatment of central and spinal spasticity -- 12. Background to neurorehabilitation -- Part 3: Neurological diseases -- 13. Acute stroke management and prevention of recurrences -- 14. Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage -- 15. Acute traumatic brain injury -- 16. Corticosteroids in central nervous system infections -- 17. Brain tumours -- 18. Epilepsy -- 19. Dementia treatment: let the evidence lead us -- 20. Parkinson's disease -- 21. Multiple sclerosis: critical review of the evidence for each question -- 22. Motor neurone disorders -- 23. Peripheral nerve disorders -- 24. Muscle disorders -- Index.

In Evidence-based Neurology: Management of Neurological Disorders a carefully selected group of clinically experienced collaborators use the best available evidence to answer more than 100 clinical questions about the treatment and management of neurological disorders. Divided into three sections and 24 chapters, this book fills the gap between guidelines and primary studies as well as between primary and secondary scientific medical literature summarizes the most recent and important findings on treatments for neurological patients measures the benefit and, when applicable, the risk of harm inherent in specific neurological interventions. This unique, evidence-based text, edited by members of the Cochrane Neurological Network will be an essential resource for all general neurologists, from the novice to the most experienced, in their everyday clinical practice.

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