Preface

With this 11th edition, Clinical Neurology enters its fourth decade of publication. Its goal remains to provide students, residents, and practitioners with an introduction to neurology that is clear, informative, and current. To this end, the approach is problem-oriented, and the text has been updated to reflect new aspects of pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment.

Recent advances covered in this edition include new developments in neurogenetics, pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders, and treatment of neurologic infections, migraine, cluster headache, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and stroke.

We are indebted to Andrew Moyer, Christie Naglieri, Sheryl Krato, and the staff at McGraw-Hill, to Martha Johnson for copyediting, to Parag Mittal at Cenveo Publisher Services, and to the following colleagues who provided materials or suggestions for this edition: Peter Anderson, Jose Biller, Allitia Dibernardo, William P. Dillon, Alisa Gean, Maeve Burns Greenberg, Jason Handwerker, Rock Heyman, Annie Hiniker, Chris Jungreis, Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, Kanar Karim, Robert Laureno, Nancy Newman, Howard Rowley, Shahriar Salamat, Seth Wright, and Howard Yonas.