This updated text comprehensively reviews all aspects of neuropathology that may
have forensic or medical-legal import. The book presents significant coverage of
the role of the neuropathologist in a legal setting before delving into specific
forensic aspects of neuropathology, providing extensive discussions of various
syndromes and conditions affecting adults and children. It discusses
intracranial equilibria and physical injury to the nervous system and contains
entire chapters devoted to neuropathology perspectives on child abuse, gunshot
and other penetrating wounds of the nervous system, as well as the forensic
aspects of complex neural functions.