Neurology | A Queen Square Textbook

A fully updated and authoritative neurology resource

The Queen Square Textbook has established itself as a favourite companion to clinical neurosciences training and teaching around the world, whilst retaining its role as an invaluable reference guide for physicians and other healthcare professionals working in neurology, general medicine and related specialties.

The book continues to reflect the core values essential to the practice of clinical neurology in the 21st century. The third edition has been extensively revised and updated to take account of the rapid pace of progress in the neurosciences and patient care. Contemporary neurology has been changed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate emergency and the growing inequalities in healthcare resources. The new edition has been extensively revised to reflect these challenges and affords a greater emphasis on management and rehabilitation whilst continuing to reflect the coherence of a text produced from a single, closely-knit, centre of excellence.

Highlights of the new edition include:

• An updated approach to clinical examination, decision-making and diagnosis
• New developments in neuroimmunology, pathology and genetics
• Neuropalliative care
• Ethical and legal issues in clinical neurology
• The latest developments in the understanding and management of stroke, movement disorders, epilepsy, cognitive impairment, multiple sclerosis, infections, myelopathy, anterior horn cell disease, disorders of nerve and muscle, neuro-oncology, neurological disorders of hearing, balance and vision, and the neurological care of critical illness, sleep, neuropsychiatry, pain, autonomic and urological disorders.
• An emphasis on treatment and rehabilitation of the person with a neurological disease

The new edition marks a significant transition to reflect contemporary neurological practice during uncertain times. It mirrors the enormous changes in investigation, diagnosis and treatment that have occurred in recent years whilst maintaining the underlying principle that we do not treat diagnoses but, rather, we care for people affected by neurological disease.

Robin Howard PhD FRCP FFICM
Robin Howard trained in medicine in Cambridge and at the Middlesex Hospital. His neurology training was in Oxford, London, and at the National Hospital Queen Square. He undertook his PhD in the Sobell Department of Neurophysiology at the Institute of Neurology. He has been a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital, Queen Square, and St. Thomas' Hospital, honorary Associate professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, and honorary civilian adviser to the Royal Navy since 1992. He was head of service for a large general neurological practice at St. Thomas' Hospital and neurologist to three intensive care units. He was senior neurologist to specialist units for the care of patients with myasthenia gravis, motor neuron disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and post- polio syndrome at both Queen Square and St Thomas' hospitals and has written and lectured extensively on each of the subjects. He has been a senior editor and contributor to all three editions of Neurology: A Queen Square Textbook.

Dimitri Kullmann FRCP FMedSci FRS
Dimitri Kullmann trained in medicine in Oxford and London and completed a DPhil in Oxford. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California San Francisco, he trained in neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and established a laboratory focusing on synaptic transmission at the Institute of Neurology. He is now a professor of neurology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and honorary consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. His research interests include the fundamental mechanisms of synapse function, neurological channelopathies and gene therapy for epilepsy. He was the Editor of Brain from 2014 to 2020 and is on the Editorial Board of Neuron. He was made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001 and of the Royal Society in 2018.

David Werring PhD FRCP FESO
David Werring trained in medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School and in neurology in London. He was appointed as a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square in 2005. He is Professor of Clinical Neurology at the Stroke Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, and honorary consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He delivers acute and outpatient stroke care and leads a research programme focussed on intracerebral haemorrhage and cerebral small vessel disease. He is head of the Research Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, chair of the Association of British Neurologists Stroke Advisory Group, stroke specialty lead for the National Institute for Health Research North Thames Clinical Research Network, President- Elect of the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians, and editorial board member of the European Journal of Neurology, European Stroke Journal, International Journal of Stroke and Practical Neurology. David Werring chaired the UK Stroke Forum 2020-2022

Michael Zandi PhD FRCP
Michael Zandi trained in medicine in Cambridge, and completed neurology training in Cambridge, Norwich and London, and a PhD in Cambridge with time in the laboratory of Professor Angela Vincent at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford. He is a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Honorary Associate Professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. His research interests include the mechanisms, natural history and clinical treatments of autoimmune encephalitis, cerebral amyloid angiopathy related inflammation, neuroimmunology broadly, and the role of inflammation and autoimmunity in cognitive and psychiatric disorders. He has advised NHS England, the Royal College of Physicians and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.