Common Pitfalls in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology: A Case-Based Approach

In cognitive and behavioral neurology, a small detail in the history or examination can change the diagnostic picture. Common Pitfalls in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology uses clinical cases to explore how diagnoses and management decisions can go astray—and what careful clinical reasoning can reveal instead.

Clinical cases, organized around diagnostic challenges

The book’s ten parts follow recurring sources of difficulty: missing a diagnosis, misidentifying the affected cognitive domain, overlooking clues in the history, and failing to recognize patterns. Later sections consider subtle findings, test interpretation, radiographic clues, and management misadventures.

Look closely at the evidence

Each case highlights the role of information gathered from the patient’s history and physical examination. Questions guide the reader through the clinical presentation, drawing attention to details that may clarify the diagnosis. The approach keeps the focus on how evidence fits together rather than treating individual test results in isolation.

For clinical learning and reflection

Written by Keith Josephs, Federico Rodríguez-Porcel, Rhonna Shatz, Daniel Weintraub, and Alberto Espay, this case-based work is suited to clinicians and learners in neurology and related fields who want to examine common diagnostic and management challenges through clinical examples.

A focused resource for thinking carefully about cognitive and behavioral neurological presentations—and about the clues that are easy to miss.