Treating the Brain: What the Best Doctors Know

by Walter Bradley

Overview

Even in this information age, people dealing with often-serious neurological problems face the daunting task of finding accurate, credible and understandable information—the essential medical fact. Using case histories as examples, Walter G. Bradley, one of the world’s leading neurologists, explains the neurological examinations, tests, clinical features, causes and treatments available for Alzheimer’s disease, migraines, stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson’s and other frequently diagnosed neurological disorders.

Known by medical students and physicians across the globe as the editor of the leading neurology textbook, Neurology in Clinical Practice, Bradley now provides a definitive resource for patients, caregivers and other health practitioners. Treating the Brain is for anyone who has ever had a neurological symptom, from a headache to tingling hands, and for anyone with a personal interest in how the brain works in health and disease.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014144926
Publisher:	Dana Foundation
Publication date:	03/12/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

In more than four decades as a working neurologist, Walter G. Bradley has seen it all. Not only is he a renowned expert on the gamut of diseases that affect the brain and nerves, he’s also edited the premiere textbook Neurology in Clinical Practice, taught hundreds of medical students and served as editor of several prominent research journals.

Now Bradley, emeritus chairman of neurology at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, has translated his expertise into print for the general public. In Treating the Brain: What the Best Doctors Know (Dana Press), Bradley clearly and concisely explains how the brain works and what happens when things go wrong, combining practical advice about diagnosis and treatment with stories of patients and families.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly Review of Treating the Brain: What the Best Doctors Know by Walter G. Bradley
Here's a man in a white coat who gets right to the point, makes it clearly—and has a good story to tell along the way. Chairman emeritus of the neurology department at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, Bradley is the patient-friendly doc for the rest of us, providing an easy-to-read roadmap through the research, anatomy and science of the convoluted highway and byways of

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