Includes bibliographical references and index.

Degenerative diseases of the nervous system: Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative dementias -- Disorders of the basal ganglia -- Motor neurone disease -- Management of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy and myelopathy -- Inflammatory diseases: Multiple sclerosis -- Inflammatory peripheral nerve disease -- Disorders of the neuromuscular junction -- Inflammatory muscle disease -- Neurological involvement in systemic autoimmune and inflammatory diseases -- Neurological infections -- Acquired and inherited metabolic disease: Diabetic peripheral nerve disease -- Inherited metabolic storage diseases -- Muscular dystrophies -- Mitochondrial diseases -- Vascular diseases of the central nervous system: Stroke prevention -- Acute stroke treatments -- Episodic neurological disease: The treatment of epilepsy -- Headache -- The genetic neurological channelopathies.