Evidence-based Neurology: Management of Neurological Disorders

Part 1 Introduction

1 Evidence-based medicine: its contributions in the way we search, appraise and apply scientific information to patient care

2 What to do when there is no evidence

3 Outcome and adverse effect measures in neurology

4 Systematic reviews of diagnostic research

Part 2 Neurological symptoms/problems

5 Acute migraine attacks

6 Back and neck pain

7 Neuropathic pain

8 Vertigo and dizziness: treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, vestibular neuritis and Menière's disease

9 Sleep disorders

10 Cognitive rehabilitation of non-progressive neuropsychological disorders

11 Management and pharmaceutical treatment of central and spinal spasticity

12 Background to neurorehabilitation

Part 3 Neurological diseases

13 Acute stroke management and prevention of recurrences

14 Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage

15 Acute traumatic brain injury

16 Corticosteroids in central nervous system infections

17 Brain tumours

18 Epilepsy

19 Dementia treatment: let the evidence lead us

20 Parkinson's disease

21 Multiple sclerosis: critical review of the evidence for each question

22 Motor neurone disorders

23 Peripheral nerve disorders

24 Muscle disorders

Index

Livia Candelise, Cochrane Neurological Network, Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.

Richard Hughes, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, King's College London School of Medicine at Guy's, King's College and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, UK.

Alessandro Liberati. Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Azienda Ospedaliera Policlinico, Ferrara, Italy.

Bernard Uitdehaag, Department of Neurology and Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Charles Warlow, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.