The second edition of Fundamentals of Neurology by Mattle and Mumenthaler is an excellent introductory neurology textbook that covers a broad range of topics related to how to approach patients with neurologic and muscular disorders. The initial chapters describe how to interview, examine, and order/interpret appropriate testing for such patients and then how to use the information to localize where in the nervous system the likely abnormality is. Subsequent chapters cover in detail a broad range of commonly encountered neurologic and muscular diseases. Major strengths of the book include the straightforward and easily understood presentation of the material, the excellent numerous figures and tables, and the comprehensive discussion of a wide range of neurologic and muscular disorders.
Fundamentals of Neurology is an appropriate introductory neurology textbook for medical students, trainees in a variety of medical disciplines, including neurology, and physicians in practice who need an easily accessible source of information about neurologic and muscular disorders. I highly recommend it to all of these physicians and physicians in training, and predict that it will be frequently used by them as they encounter patients with neurologic and muscular disorders.