1. Development of Neurology and Neuropathology.- Early concepts of neurological structure and function.- Microscopy of the nervous system.- Development of clinical neurology.- Diagnosis and treatment of neurological disease.- Development of modern neuropathology.- 2. Functional Histology and Anatomy of the Central Nervous System.- Histology of the brain.- Neurons.- Oligodendrocytes.- Astrocytes.- Blood vessels of the brain, and the blood-brain barrier.- Microglia.- Ependyma.- Choroid plexus.- Anatomy of the human brain.- Anatomy of the spinal cord.- Basic neuroanatomy from the study of brain evolution.- Further reading.- 3. The Interpretation of Neurological Symptoms and Signs.- Clinical localisation of brain disorders.- Focal lesions.- Synopsis of regional functions in the cerebral hemispheres.- Disorders of the cerebellum and basal ganglia.- Clinical effects of lesions of the mid-brain, pons and medulla.- Interaction between focal and generalised effects of intracranial lesions.- Altered states of consciousness.- States of arousal.- Discrepancies between apparent state of arousal and content of consciousness.- Epilepsy.- Headache.- Raised intracranial pressure.- Spinal cord lesions.- Extrinsic lesions.- Intrinsic lesions.- Pain.- Radiology.- Peripheral nerve disease.- Symptoms.- Autonomic disturbances.- Distribution of symptoms and signs.- Investigation of peripheral neuropathy.- Correlation of clinical findings, electromyography and biopsy.- Conclusion.- Further reading.- 4. General Pathology of the Central Nervous System.- Reactions of brain cells to disease processes.- Neurons.- Astrocytes.- Microglia.- Reactions to brain tissue damage.- Inflammation and repair.- Breakdown of the blood-brain barrier, and cerebral oedema.- Breakdown of myelin.- Multiple sclerosis.- The secondary effects of intracranial space-occupying lesions and cerebral oedema.- Hydrocephalus.- Further reading.- 5. Cerebral Vascular Disease.- Stroke.- Clinical features.- Clinical classification.- Embolism and cerebral infarction.- Arterial occlusion.- Large and small vessel disease in cerebral infarction.- Risk factors.- Epidemiology.- Treatment.- Vascular territories and infarction.- Physiological aspects of the cerebral circulation.- Cerebral infarcts.- Sequence of histological changes after cerebral infarction.- Blood flow changes after cerebral infarction.- Lacunes.- Carotid artery territory infarction.- Vertebro-basilar territory infarction.- Boundary zone infarction.- Death due to hypotensive brain damage.- Hypoxic encephalopathy.- Spinal cord infarction.- Venous infarction.- Intracranial haemorrhage.- Hypertensive cerebral and cerebellar haemorrhage.- Subarachnoid haemorrhage.- Cerebral tumour and cerebral haemorrhage.- Further reading.- 6. Trauma to the Nervous System.- Head injuries.- Blunt head injuries.- Pathology of blunt head injuries.- Penetrating head injuries.- Spinal cord trauma.- Pathology of spinal cord injuries.- Prospectus.- Chronic and recurrent trauma to the nervous system.- Nerve root compression, and traumatic radiculopathies.- Root and cord lesions in spondylosis.- Spinal cord and nerve root compression by tumour or infection.- Radiation myelopathy and encephalopathy.- Further reading.- 7. Intracranial and Spinal Tumours.- Classification.- Incidence of intracranial and spinal tumours.- Clinical presentation of intracranial tumours.- Diagnosis of intracranial tumours.- Intracranial tumours of neuro-epithelial origin.- Astrocytomas.- Gioblastomas and anaplastic astrocytomas.- Oligodendrogliomas.- Ependymomas.- Medulloblastomas.- Choroid plexus papillomas.- Colloid cysts of the third ventricle.- Tumours of nerve sheath cells.- Schwannomas.- Neurofibromas.- Meningiomas.- Primary malignant lymphomas of the brain.- Tumours and malformations of blood vessel origin.- Haemangioblastomas.- Capillary telangiectases.- Cavernous angiomas.- Arteriovenous malformations.- Tumours of the pituitary.- Tumours of the pineal.- Metastatic intracranial tumours.- Spinal tumours.- Classification.- Clinical presentation, investigation and treatment.- Pathology.- Further reading.- 8. Pituitary Tumours.- Pituitary adenomas.- Clinical aspects.- Histopathology.- Craniopharyngiomas and suprasellar cysts.- Pathology.- Further reading.- 9. Virus Infections of the Nervous System.- Clinical aspects and pathology.- Viral meningitis.- Viral encephalitis.- Post-infectious encephalitis.- Reye’s syndrome.- Viruses with specific neurotropic characteristics.- Viruses and polyneuropathy.- Slow virus encephalitis.- Virology of nervous system infections.- Viral replication.- Defences against viral infection.- Viruses associated with CNS infections.- Virological investigations in CNS infections.- Meningitis and paralytic disease.- Herpes simplex meningitis.- Investigation of encephalitis.- Post-infectious encephalitis.- Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections.- Acute encephalitis.- Herpes simplex encephalitis.- Diagnosis of other viral encephalitides.- Slow virus encephalitis.- Further reading.- 10. Bacterial, Fungal and Parasitic Infections of the Central Nervous System.- Bacterial infections.- Bacterial meningitis.- Clinical features.- Chronic or subacute forms.- Late complications.- CSF examination.- Bacteriology of meningitis.- Pathology of bacterial meningitis.- Tuberculous meningitis and tuberculomas.- Neurosyphilis.- Shunt-associated meningitis.- Fungal meningitis.- Other causes of meningitis.- Intracranial abscess.- Subdural abscess.- Brain abscess.- Mycotic aneurysms.- Protozoal infections.- Metazoal parasites.- Further reading.- 11. Developmental and Neonatal Neuropathology.- Epidemiology.- Antenatal factors.- Perinatal factors.- Postnatal developmental disability.- Pathogenetic considerations.- Development of the human brain.- Chromosomal abnormalities.- Down’s syndrome (mongolism).- Trisomy 17–18 (trisomy E; Edwards’ syndrome).- Trisomy 13–15 (trisomy D; Pateau’s syndrome).- Destructive lesions.- Infections.- Porencephaly and hydranencephaly.- Chemical agents and CNS malformations.- Radiation.- Dysraphic malformations.- Anencephaly.- Encephalocoeles.- Spina bifida dorsalis.- Arnold-Chiari malformation.- Dandy-Walker malformation.- Hydrocephalus.- Syringomyelia.- Perinatal brain injuries.- Birth trauma.- Cerebral trauma in neonates.- Hypoxia.- Kernicterus: bilirubin encephalopathy.- Neonatal infections.- The phakomatoses.- Neurofibromatosis.- Tuberose sclerosis.- Von Hippel-Lindau’s disease.- Sturge-Weber syndrome.- Ataxia-telangiectasia.- Other phakomatoses.- Pathology of metabolic disorders of the brain.- Pathology of inborn lysosomal storage disorders.- Neuronal storage disorders.- Leukodystrophies.- Mucolipidoses.- Further reading.- 12. Metabolic Disorders Affecting the Nervous System.- Neonatal hypothyroidism.- Phenylketonuria.- Disorders of the branched chain amino acids.- Maple syrup urine disease.- ?-Methylcrotonyl CoA carboxylase deficiency.- Disorders of sulphur metabolism.- Urea cycle disorders.- Carbohydrate disorders.- Galactosaemia.- Disorders of fructose metabolism.- Glycogen storage disorders.- Inherited disorders of trace metal metabolism.- Wilson’s disease.- Menkes’ disease.- Diagnosis of inherited disorders of sick infants.- References.- 13. Inborn Lysosomal Storage Disorders Affecting the Nervous System.- Lysosomes and lysosomal storage disorders.- Lysosomal disorders affecting the nervous system.- The mucopolysaccharidoses.- The lipidoses.- The gangliosidoses.- Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD).- Krabbe leukodystrophy.- Fabry disease (angiokeratoma corporis diffusum).- Gaucher disease.- Niemann-Pick disease.- Ophthalmoplegic lipidoses.- Farber’s lipogranulomatosis.- The mucolipidoses.- Austin sulphatidosis.- I-cell disease.- Mucolipidosis type IV.- Other lysosomal disorders affecting the nervous system.- Mannosidosis.- Fucosidosis.- Aspartyl-glycosaminuria.- Aids to diagnosis of lysosomal disorders.- Management of lysosomal disorders.- References.- 14. Hereditary and System Disorders of the Nervous System.- Clinical features.- Hereditary system degenerations.- Hereditary spastic paraplegia (Strümpell).- Hereditary posterior column ataxia (Biemond).- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (peroneal muscular atrophy).- Friedreich’s ataxia.- Spinocerebellar atrophies.- Cortical cerebellar atrophy.- Olivopontocerebellar atrophy.- Shy-Drager syndrome.- Basal ganglia disorders.- Acquired system degenerations.- Subacute combined degeneration of the cord.- Acquired cerebellar degenerations.- Acquired basal ganglia degenerations.- Striato-nigral degeneration.- Progressive supranuclear palsy.- Stiff man syndrome.- Further reading.- 15. Dementia.- Epidemiology.- Causes.- Alzheimer’s disease.- Multi-infarct dementia.- Coexistence of Alzheimer’s dementia and multi-infarct dementia.- Pick’s disease.- Progressive subcortical gliosis.- Huntington’s disease.- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (subacute spongiform encephalopathy).- The amnesic syndrome.- Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.- Intermittently raised pressure hydrocephalus (IRPH).- Further reading.- 16. Diseases of Peripheral Nerve.- Nerve biopsy.- Autopsy study of peripheral neuropathies.- Techniques for peripheral nerve histology.- Anatomy of peripheral nerves.- Histology of peripheral nerves.- Development and ageing of peripheral nerves.- General pathology of peripheral nerves.- Axon (wallerian) degeneration and regeneration.- Segmental demyelination.- Hypertrophic neuropathy.- Peripheral nerve diseases.- Destructive lesions of the spinal cord.- Diseases affecting motor neurons.- Diseases of sensory ganglia.- Traumatic and compressive nerve lesions.- Neuropathies due to vascular disease.- Toxic neuropathies.- Metabolic neuropathies.- Amyloid neuropathy.- Inflammatory disorders of peripheral nerves.- Peroneal muscular atrophy and hypertrophic neuropathy.- Disorders of lipid metabolism.- Neuropathies in malignant disease.- Autonomic neuropathies.- Further reading.- 17. Diseases of Muscle.- Muscle biopsy technique.- Histological features of neuromuscular disease.- Statistical methods.- Degenerative changes.- Regenerative changes.- Other features.- Classification of neuromuscular disorders.- Myopathic disorders.- Muscular dystrophies.- Congenital myopathies.- Myotonic syndromes.- Metabolic myopathies.- Endocrine myopathies.- End-plate disorders.- Inflammatory myopathies.- Neurogenic disorders.- Spinal muscular atrophies.- Motor neuron disease.- Other anterior horn cell disorders and other diseases causing denervation of muscle.- Further reading.