Blackwell’s Neurology and Psychiatry Access Series: Adult Neurology is a methodical yet succinct book that details neurological disease specifically affecting adults. This book is aimed at neurologists and primary care physicians, but medical students, residents and physician’s assistants would also find this book useful.

The book is organized into three main sections: Section 1 offers an organized discussion of the adult neurological evaluation including the history and examination, electrophysiological studies and neuroradiology; Section 2 covers common clinical problems in neurology and ways of evaluating, managing, and treating them; Section 3 illustrates the spectrum of specific neurologic diseases and disorders.

Blackwell’s Neurology and Psychiatry Access Series has been designed to teach the art of diagnosis and treatment of neurologic and mental disease, applying both deductive and inductive reasoning to arrive at a diagnosis and formulate a plan for treatment.

The format of this book is unique in the way it presents information, using ‘boxes’ designed to provide the reader with additional information and ‘wisdom’ from experienced contributors rather than just clinical knowledge.

This approach introduces an inductive nosologic approach to diagnosis, employing discriminating, consistent, and variable features. Other boxes include:

• Pearls and Perils
  
• Consider Consultation When…
  
• Key Clinical Questions and What They Unlock (new in this Edition)

These boxes of information and questions prompt the clinician with time-saving questions that “cut to the chase.” This is a clinically relevant, multifunction text.