Interest in and recognition of equine neurologic disease have advanced in recent years to the point that it is a common part of clinical practice. In this practical and comprehensive clinical reference, clinicians will find the up-to-date resources needed to effectively and confidently recognize, diagnose, and treat neurologic diseases and disorders in equine patients. The editors and authors have used their collective experience to produce a volume that integrates the necessary fundamental concepts into a clinical approach to the numerous afflictions of the nervous system of the horse.
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Organized into three complementary sections mirroring the problem-based approach necessary to treat disease
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A working tool and reference for clinicians, veterinary students, residents, and specialty clinicians
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Heavily referenced throughout allowing for further in-depth study
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**Reviewer:**Jonathan Hale Foreman, DVM, MS(University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine)
**Description:**This comprehensive reference on equine neurology has sections covering neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, clinical neurology based on lesion localization, and specific disease syndromes. The latter is the major portion of the book, comprising 18 of the 30 chapters, detailing specific diseases affecting the nervous system of the horse.
**Purpose:**The editors' stated intent was to produce a more integrated approach to equine neurology by bringing all the various topics together in a single source rather than including them mixed in among other body systems in larger texts on equine or large animal internal medicine. The editors have accomplished their goal by admirably coalescing information normally found in sometimes widely disparate sources into a single reference.
**Audience:**According to the preface, "the book is intended as a working tool and reference for clinicians and veterinary students, as well as advanced students of equine neurology such as residents and specialty clinicians." The editors have succeeded in providing "a text that was encyclopedic in nature and well referenced.
**Features:**This is the first comprehensive collection to be dedicated strictly to the topic of equine neurology. The third section on specific diseases is quite detailed and up to date. Because of the contemporary detail in the third section, and because of their tendency sometimes to jump to the punch line, veterinary students may overlook the incredible value of the middle section of the book dedicated to excellent discussions of differential diagnoses and diagnostic plans for specific neurological signs such as spinal ataxia or cranial nerve abnormalities. One potential shortcoming is one editor's dominant participation in the authorship of 18 of the 30 chapters, making the book potentially less broad-based than initially advertised.
**Assessment:**This book is an original; there is no other like it. Veterinary students, practitioners, and postgraduate trainees and specialists will all find value in various portions. It is very reasonably priced in today's medical textbook marketplace, likely owing to its strict use of only black-and-white illustrations and photographs.