‘The people of this country have had enough of experts…’ This extraordinary quotation is from a British politician who most definitely is not a neurologist, and certainly not a reader of Practical Neurology . Readers of this journal love experts, and particularly those who think critically about what they do, and can distil their knowledge so that we, the jobbing neurologists, can make this expertise available to our patients. Experts are sometimes characterised (unfairly) as knowing a lot about a little, about those rare diseases that we rarely see in the clinic. Dementia is very common and all too often the diagnosis is relatively straightforward, particularly for more established disease. But having made the diagnosis what should we do next? Tony Bayer shares his expertise in the management of patients with dementia and highlights a range of simple and low-tech interventions that can help both the patient with dementia and their family (page 296). Stroke …

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“这个国家的人民已经有足够的专家……”这句话引人注意的是一位英国政客，他绝对不是神经学家，也不是实用神经病学的读者。该杂志的读者喜欢专家，尤其是那些认真考虑自己所从事的工作的专家，他们可以散布他们的知识，以便我们作为工作的神经科医生，可以为我们的患者提供这种专业知识。专家有时被（不公平地）描述为对一些我们很少在诊所看到的罕见疾病了解很多。痴呆症非常普遍，诊断通常相对简单，尤其是对于较为确定的疾病。但是做出诊断后，我们下一步该怎么做？托尼·拜耳分享了他在痴呆症患者管理方面的专业知识，并着重介绍了一系列简单且技术含量低的干预措施，它们可以帮助痴呆症患者及其家人（第296页）。中风 …