Abstract
Elan D. Louis, Stephan A. Mayer, and Lewis P. Rowland Wolters Kluwer, Philadelphia, PA, 2015 1402 pages; $179.99 Merritt’s Neurology has been a trusted and comprehensive clinical neurology text for over sixty years, and this latest edition provides many improvements over the 2009 edition. The most noticeable changes are in the opening chapters, which are a quick reference guide for the diagnostic approach to common neurological symptoms. The thirteenth edition opens with a new epidemiological discussion of the burden of neurological disease, which frames the importance of the chapters ahead. The following chapter, “Approach to the Neurologic Patient”, now includes detailed instructions for testing all aspects of neurological function. Included in this chapter are tests for malingering, a particular concern in the neurology patient population. The following section, “Common Problems in Neurology”, has been significantly … jnen{at}pathology.wisc.edu
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