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AN INSIDER'S GUIDE Hundreds of high-yield facts help you pass the boards and in-service exams Covers must-know neurology and psychiatry topics in one volume Includes tips and advice from physicians who passed This page intentionally left blank NEUROLOGY BOARDS Michael 5. Rafii. MD. PhD Series Editor: Director, Memory Disorders dinic Tao Le. MD. MHS A'!isistant Professor of Neurosciences Attending Neurologist, Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Assistant Oinical Professor of Medicine and Disease Research Center Pediatric; University of California-San Diego Chief, Section of Allergy and Immunology La Jolla, california Department of Medicine University of Louisville Thomas I. Cochrane. MD. PhD Louisville, Kentucky Assistant Professor of Neurology Division of Neuromuscular Disease Department of Neurology Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts II Medical New York I Chicago I San Francisco I Lisbon I London I Madrid I Mexico City Milan I New Delhi I San Juan I Seoul/ Singapore I Sydney I Toronto Thr McGrow·H/11 Compamrs Copyright Cl 2010 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-07-174288-7 MIDD: 0-07-174288-3 The material in this eBook also appelll'S in the print version oft his title: ISBN: 978-0-07-149622-3, MIDD: 0-{17-149622-X. All t:rademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. 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CONTENTS Contributing Authors vii Reviewers ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii How to Contribute XV Chapter 1 Guide to the ABPN Examination SECTION 1: NEUIOLOGY TOPICS 7 Chapter 2 Neuroanatomy 9 Chapter 3 Neuropharmacology 85 Chapter 4 Neuroimmunology 113 Chapter 5 Neurodegenerative Disorders 125 Chapter 6 Headache and Pain 155 Chapter 7 Neuro-oncology 167 Chapter 8 Neuro-ophthalmology and Neuro-otology 191 Chapter 9 Stroke and Neurocritical Care 217 Chapter 10 Neurological Infections 253 Chapter 11 Neuromuscular Disease 291 Chapter 12 Pediatric Neurology and Neurogenetics 347 Chapter 13 Seizures, Epilepsy, and Sleep Disorders 395 SECTION II: PSYCHIATIY TOPICS 417 Chapter 14 Substance Abuse and Dependence 419 Chapter 15 Delirium 433 Chapter 16 Anxiety Disorders 439 Chapter 17 Somatoform Disorders 451 v Chapter 18 Bipolar Disorder 461 Chapter 19 Major Depressive Disorder 471 Chapter 20 Primary Psychotic Disorders 475 Color Plates follows page 416 Index 481 vi CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS BRIAN S. APPLEBY, MD MARIA K. HOLJn::HENS, MD, MMSCI Assistant Professor Staff Neurologist Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Partners Multiple Sclerosis Center DMsion of Geriatric PsychiatJy and Neuropsychiatry Brigham and Women's Hospital Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Harvard Medical School Baltimore, Maryland Boston, Massachusetts AMIN AZZAM, MD, MA LORI C. JORDAN, MD, PhD Assistant Clinical Professor Assistant Professor Neurology and Pediatrics Department of Psychiatry Associate Director, Pediatric Neurology Residency Program University of california-San Francisco Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Assistant Clinical Professor Baltimore, Maryland School of Public Health, University of california-Berkeley San Frandsco, california EDWARD KAFTARIAN, MD Psychiatry Residency BEAU B. BRUCE. MD Johns Hopkins University Hospital Assistant Professor Baltimore, Maryland Departments of Ophthalmology and Neurology Forensic PsychiatJy Fellowship Emory University School of Medicine University of california-Davis Atlanta, Georgia Davis, california DAVID W. CHEN, MD DAVID KAN, MD, MRO Instructor Associate Clinical Professor Department of Neurology Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School University of california-San Francisco Massachusetts General Hospital San Frandsco Veterans Affair Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts San Frandsco, California RON COHN, MD, PhD MAnHEW A. KOENIG, MD Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology Departments of Neurology, Neurological Surgery, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medidne and Anesthesiology-Critical care Medicine Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Hypotonia The Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore, Maryland S. SHANE KONRAD, MD JAN DRAPPATZ, MD Oinicallnstructor Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry Departments of Neurology and Oncology New York University Langone Medical Center Dana-Farber cancer lnstiMe Bellevue Hospital Forensics DMsion Harvard Medical School New York, New York Boston, Massachusetts CHARLES C. LEE, MD ADAM FLEISHER. MD, MAS Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Center Assodate Director of Brain Imaging Comprehensice HIV Center Banner Alzheimer's Institute New York City, New York Phoenix. Arizona TRACEY A. MILLIGAN, MD, MS RYAN HALL. MD Instructor of Neurology Affiliated Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School University of South Florida College of Medidne Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Psychiatry Boston, Massachusetts Tampa, Florida Assistant Professor University of Central Florida College of Medicine Orlando, Florida vii NEERAJ NAVAL. MD JEFFREY A. RUMBAUGH. MD, PhD Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Neurology Department of Neurology Division of Neuroimmunology and Neuro-infectious Diseases Associate Director & Fellowship Director Department of Neurology Neurosciences G'itical Care Program The Johns Hopkins University Oregon Health & Sciences University Baltimore, Maryland Portland, Oregon TANYA THERIAULT, DO KATHERINE B. PETERS, MD, PhD Fellow Medical Instructor, Neuro-oncology Child and Adolescent Psychiatry The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke Children's Medical Center Duke University University of Texas-Southwestem Medical Center Durham, North Carolina Dallas, Texas IRFAN QURESHI, MD JASON YANOFSKI, MD Instructor Psychiatry Residency The Saul R Korey Department of Neurology Johns Hopkins University Hospital Albert Einstein College of Medicine Child Psychiatry Fellowship Bronx, New York University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship DEMIAN ROSE. MD, PhD Yale University New Haven, Connecticut Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Psychiatry University of California-San Francisco San Frandsco, California viii REVIEWERS VALERIE BIOUSSE, MD DORIS A. TRAUNER. MD Cyrus H. Stoner Professor of Opthalmology Professor of Pediatric Neurology and Neurosciences Emory University University of california Atlanta, Georgia San Diego School of Medicine San Diego, california WILLIAM S. DAVID, MD, PhD HOWARD WEINER. MD Director, Neuromuscular Diagnostic Center Massachusetts General Hospital Robert K. Kroc Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School Director, Partners MS Center Boston, Massachusetts Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School ARGYE BETH HILLIS, MD, MA Boston, Massachusetts Professor of Neurology PATRICK WEN, MD Co-Director, Cerebrovascular Division The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Professor of Neurology Baltimore, Maryland Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School STEVEN H. HOROWJTZ.. MD Boston, Massachusetts Assistant in Neurology, Nerve Injury Unit Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts RICHARD T. JOHNSON, MD Eisenhower Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience and Molecular Microbiology The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland JONG WOO LEE, MD, PhD Division of EEG, Epilepsy, and Sleep Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts ix

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