Independent neurology press · by Dr. Mohamed Najm

Neurology, written to be remembered.

Free books and study tools for the doctors who meet the brain at the bedside — in the emergency department, the ICU and the neurology clinic.

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Why “Tract”

A word with two meanings.

tractNEUROANATOMY

A bundle of nerve fibres carrying a signal from one part of the brain to another. The corticospinal tract. The optic tract.

tractLITERATURE

A short written work that argues one thing clearly. Something you read once and keep.

Both are ways information travels. The books here try to be both: anatomically exact, and written well enough that you remember them at three in the morning.

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The books · free PDF

Clinical books.

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Definitive Edition · 2026

The Book of Seizures

From the Babylonian diagnostic tablets to SCN1A antisense trials: semiology, EEG, the syndromes, twenty-seven drugs in full, status epilepticus, and twenty pitfalls written the wrong way round.

90 pages189 questions inside700+ downloads in two days
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First Edition · 2026 · New

Neurocritical Guide

The patient in intensive care who will not wake up: what is broken, where it is, and what to do in the next five minutes. Coma, brainstem, raised ICP, seizures, prognosis and brain death.

72 pages9 chapters30+ original figures
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For the European Board of Neurology.

Written by a Fellow of the European Board of Neurology, corrected against the guidelines and trials current in 2026.

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2026 Edition · Board review

The Neurology Tract

Eighteen chapters of high-yield neurology for the closed- and open-book components: current criteria, landmark trials and pattern-recognition tables.

74 pages18 chapters30 corrections listed
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FEBN 2026 · Closed book

Reference Papers Digest

All 23 FEBN 2026 reference papers — each guideline's recommendations, the trials that followed, and the angles examiners ask.

59 pages23 papers94 exam angles
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Tools & assistants

Apps for the bedside.

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Epilepsy · Bedside

Seizure Compass

Navigate. Differentiate. Localize.

Estimates how likely an event is to be an epileptic seizure, a functional (psychogenic non-epileptic) seizure, syncope or another mimic, and helps localise seizure onset from semiology — built on published semiology data.

  • Seizure vs functional seizure vs syncope
  • Semiology-based localisation
  • Installs on iPhone and Android
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Critical care · Calculator

Najm ICUCalc

Your essential ICU companion.

A bedside ICU calculator: infusion and antibiotic dosing, haemodynamics, ventilator settings, blood gases, electrolytes, renal and fluids, scores, antidotes, RSI and a neuroprotective-strategy panel.

  • 12 sections incl. ABG and electrolytes
  • Neuroprotection and RSI panels
  • Works offline as a web app
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The author

Dr. Mohamed Najm

MBBS · FEBN · PGDip EM · MRCEM (Secondary) · MSc Neurology, Buckingham (in progress)

Neurologist specialising in neurocritical care and neurological emergencies, Fellow of the European Board of Neurology. He also writes fiction in Arabic — which may be why readers keep saying the same thing about his first medical book: that it reads like a novelist wrote a neurology text.

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