RECOMMENDATIONS
There are endless brilliant resources out there for anybody learning neurology, but here are things I've found helpful.
YouTube
YouTube Channels
Neuro-ophthalmology with Dr. Andrew Lee - a YouTube channel with many short tutorials on all things neuro-ophthalmology. If you struggle to understand skew deviation, internuclear ophthalmoplegia and the ocular tilt reaction - Dr. Lee has you covered.
Dr Marty Samuels - Video Atlas of the Detailed Neurological Examination. Dr Samuels, sadly no longer with us, was a fantastic educator, and this is a worthy series to watch.
Dr Peter Johns' channel on vertigo and how to assess it. Dr Johns is an emergency physician who has great videos on the assessment of acute vertigo, including the proper use of HINTS testing, with examples of the signs.
Radiology Tutorials. Masses of useful content - for example CT brain changes in acute ischaemic stroke.
The Neurophile. Lots of useful neuroradiology content.
Relevant to radiology and key anatomy, for those who want it:
A few accounts I follow are worth checking out. Short formats but lots of great micro-pearls, and also a great way to find out about Podcasts and Webinars.
Books
Stroke Syndromes - Caplan & van Gijn. This is a brilliant resource - with encyclopaedic information on clinical neuroanatomy in relation to strokes, including important anatomical variations.
Oxford Textbook of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia. Excellent content if you want to get better at this difficult area.
Neurological Differential Diagnosis - John Patten. A resource that is as artistically beautiful as it is clinically useful. It has aged well - the last edition was written in 1995 but the clinical anatomy is forever, as are Patten's insights.
Netter's Atlas of Anatomy. Great and beautiful neuroanatomy content, and Netter illustrated much more - including many clinical images relevant to neurology.
Neuroanatomy: an Illustrated Colour Text - Crossman & Neary. An essential book.
Basic Clinical Neuroanatomy - Paul A. Young & Paul H Young. A father-and-son duo who wrote a classic, with lots of clinical tips, and a fantastic localisation chapter at the back with short cases.
Clinically Oriented Anatomy - Moore. A great book. I find the best way to learn anatomy is with clinically meaningful examples for context - and the best way to learn clinical is to link it back to the anatomy. They are one thing, and if we unified them better, people would be less 'neurophobic'.
McLeod's Clinical Examination. The neurology chapter is concise and provides an excellent and practical approach.
Neurological Clinical Examination - Morris & Jankovic. A great book. Rather than describing the examination as one single sequence, the authors work in chapters aimed at specific problems - for example ptosis, the wasted hand or tremor - and provide a logical approach to problem-focused neurological assessment. The book is small, yet it's packed with diagrams and QR code links to video examples. Strongly recommend.
Journals - series and articles
Specific series
The New England Journal of Medicine: Case Records of the Massachussetts General Hospital. Find all the neurological ones and work through them - you'll see how the masters break down complex cases and form a differential diagnosis.
Neurology: Resident & Fellow section. There are so many great cases which are broken down, including focusing on clinical reasoning and localisation. There are also lots of great mini features, such as videos of clinical signs, or educational snippets.
Practical Neurology: Mimics & Chameleons. This is a running series of articles on specific diseases and how to diagnose them, including their many clinical manifestations - such as when they masquerade like other disorders ('chameleons') - and how to recognise other diseases that resemble them ('mimics'). There are articles on stroke/TIA, encephalitis, optic neuritis, motor neuron disease, functional neurological disorder, brain tumours - just about anything you could want. Every neurology resident should read the entire collection of these.
Practical Neurology: Clinicopathological conferences (CPCs). Annual conferences feature a 'mystery case' presented by an expert who did not meet the patient and does not know the final diagnosis. Their job is to work through the history, examination and results, and try to come up with a diagnosis. The end result is then given. Practical Neurology publishes the reports of these. If you want to see top-class neurological reasoning, look no further.
Specific articlesFirstly, Practical Neurology has so many great articles relevant to neurological diagnosis that it deserves its own list:
The below are articles from other journals which are also worth reading. Confusingly, some are from another journal called Practical Neurology, based in the US - and also extremely useful!
Websites
The Movement Disorder Society website - this is free for trainees/residents but you have to register. It has endless online content about Movement Disorders including recorded lectures and interactive tutorials.
Stroke Manual. A great, free resource with a lot of useful content, including on neuroanatomy and clinical features of different strokes, for example brainstem.
Eye Wiki. I'm not an ophthalmologist so much of this isn't for me - but the neuro-ophthalmology content is excellent.
European Academy of Neurology - eCampus (subscriber). Huge trove of content included pre-recorded lectures, podcasts and clinical cases.
neuroangio.org. Probably beyond the needs of most, including me - but if you want a reference for neurovascular anatomy this is an amazing resource.
Podcasts
Practical Neurology - case podcasts. Great, interactive discussions about cases, hosted by Professor Martin Turner and his specialist resident colleagues.
The Neurophobia podcast. This is a podcast some colleagues make, aimed at doctors early in their training (before neurology specialty training). The aim is to make neurology less 'scary' by talking through real cases for learning. I've featured a couple of times.
Other lesion cases
If you're into this sort of thing, there are endless other good lesion cases in the literature. I've compiled many here.
Bogousslavsky & Regli. Capsular genu syndrome. Neurology 1990
Mathew et al. Supplementary motor area stroke mimicking functional disorder. Stroke 2018 Adamovich et al. Teaching NeuroImages: Amnesia due to fornix infarction. Neurology 2009 Lopez-Blanco et al. Sudden bilateral ptosis as stroke onset. Practical Neurology 2021 Qi-Huang et al. Acute amnesia caused by left fornix infarction: A case report of an unusual entity. Radiology Case Reports 2022Herath et al. Tapia's syndrome in a patient with COVID-19. Practical Neurology 2023
de Beer & Post. Teaching NeuroImages: Villaret syndrome. Neurology 2010
Mirian et al. Teaching NeuroImage: Occipital Condyle Syndrome. Neurology 2024
Multiple cranial neuropathiesShaji et al. Benign thyroid swelling presenting as Horner’s syndrome. BMJ Case Reports 2020