This neurology textbook contains 153 chapters by neurologists and other specialists mainly from the US, who cover the approach to the patient, diagnostic tests, cerebrovascular diseases, neurotrauma, dementia, headache and pain syndromes, epilepsy and paroxysmal disorders, central nervous system infections, demyelinating and inflammatory diseases, movement disorders, neuromuscular diseases,
neurooncology, hydrocephalus and cerebral edema, spinal cord disorders, autonomic and sleep disturbances, systemic organ function and the brain, neurologic toxidromes, pediatric neurology, psychiatry and neurology, and recovery and end-of-life care.
Geoffrey Pilkington, Professor of Cellular and Molecular
Neurooncology at the University of Portsmouth, who directs work funded by the charity Brain Tumour Research, says: "There are in excess of 120 different types of brain tumour and there are three major types.
