How I Examine My Patient: The Art of Neurological Examination for Parkinson's Disease

is proud toannounce an exciting new section entitled “How IExamine My Patient”, dedicated to the art of theneurological examination. The critical basis for clin-ical reasoning and decision-making is a properlyperformed, detailed physical examination combinedwith careful history taking. In this regard, good clin-ical skills are important for any medical profession,but particularly for clinical neurology, not least thesubspecialty of movement disorders. Showing videosof patients with involuntary movements consistentlyprovokesintensivedebateamongdelegatesintheaudi-ence. Importantly, such debates concentrate not onlyon the nature of the observed abnormalities, but oftenalso about the techniques used to elicit particular neu-rological symptoms (using clever questions) or signs(using specic tests or tricks). Anyone who has everattended a Grand Rounds session in clinic or perhapsat a medical conference must have been struck by thevariability in techniques and methods across differentclinicians, and by the different outcomes that are pro-duced as a result. And performing a clinical exam the