Table of Contents

1: Ruth Dobson and Gavin Giovannoni: Becoming blind in one eye: Neuromyelitis optica
2: Anish N. Shah and Paul Riordan-Eva: Seeing double: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
3: Natalie S. Ryan and Martin N. Rossor: Recipes no longer a piece of cake: Posterior cortical atrophy
4: Diego Kaski and Adolfo M. Bronstein: Getting your head out of a spin: Vestibular neuritis
5: Benedict Daniel Michael, David Joel Stoeter, and Hadi Manji: A delayed diagnosis in delirium: HSV encephalitis
6: Anna Sadnicka, Mark J. Edwards, and Kailash P. Bhatia: Writer's cramp: Dystonia
7: Jonathan D. Virgo, Sui Wong, and Gordon T. Plant: Being moved to tears: Carotid-cavernous fistula
8: William M. Stern and Jalesh Panicker: An urgent and frequent symptom: Neurogenic bladder
9: Dipa Raja Rayan and Chris Turner: Not moving a muscle: Myotonic dystrophy
10: Vino Siva, Marios C. Papadopoulos, and Daniel C. Walsh: A painful oculomotor nerve palsy: Subarachnoid haemorrhage
11: Joel S. Winston and Sofia H. Eriksson: A complex sleep disorder: Disorders of sleep
12: David Paling and Declan Chard: Symptoms come and go but the lesions get bigger: An unusual form of multiple sclerosis
13: Krishna Chinthapalli and Graham Warner: Symptoms falling on deaf ears: Mitochondrial disorders
14: Jennifer Spillane and Dimitri M. Kullmann: Difficulty breathing and moving: Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
15: Ross W. Paterson and Laszlo K. Sztriha: Paroxysmal sensory and motor events: Cerebral amyloid angiopathy
16: Ignacio Rubio-Agusti and Robin Lachmann: Picking out an inherited disease: Adult onset Niemann-Pick type C
17: Umesh Vivekananda and Dimitri M. Kullmann: A worsening acute psychosis: Antibody-mediated encephalitis
18: Fiona Kennedy and Martin M. Brown: An unusual case of basilar stroke: Posterior circulation infarct
19: Sara Ajina and Angela Gall: Will I walk again, doctor?: Spinal cord injury rehabilitation
20: Karen M. Doherty and Henry Houlden: Parkinsonism with little response to levodopa: Multiple system atrophy
21: Jan Novy, Krishna Chinthapalli, and Marco Mula: Non-convulsive status epilepticus
22: Suchitra Chinthapalli and Edel O'Toole: A life-threatening drug reaction: Antiepileptic drug rashes

About the Author

Krishna Chinthapalli is a Clinical Research Associate for the Epilepsy department at the Institute of Neurology, UCL, UK. From 2009 to 2012, he was Honorary Clinical Fellow at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), and from 2010 until 2014, he was Neurology Specialty Question Group examiner for the Royal College of Physicians. He has published numerous articles in medical and scientific journals. His research currently focuses on 'Recruiting
patients and families with epilepsy for genome wide association studies and facial morphometry' at UCL. Nadia Konstantina Magdalinou is a Clinical Research Associate at the Institute of Neurology, UCL,
working with Professor A Lees. From 2010 to 2011, she was a Sub-investigator in a DONIPAD study (testing efficacy of Donepezil in Posterior Cortical Atrophy) and a CONCERT study (trial of Dimebon added to Donepezil in patients with Alzheimer's disease). She has published several articles in scientific journals. Nicholas Wood is Professor of Neurology and Head of the Department of Molecular Neuroscience, and Galton Professor of Genetics at UCL Institute of Neurology. He has been awarded grants
from Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council for his research, and has published numerous articles for medical and scientific journals. In 1999 he received the Linacre Medal from the Royal
College of Physicians, London. He sits on several journal editorial boards, as well as the medical advisory panels of various charities and has been elected to the BRAIN Board of Management.

Reviews

This is the first time I have come across this series, never mind this particular book, and it is a most refreshing way of learning more about a speciality. . . Each topic is well written and makes interesting reading, and without doubt offers a rich learning experience.
*Dr Harry Brown, Glycosmedia*