J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1998;65:806 ( November )
Book review
The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurological
Disease. Second edition. Edited by ROGER N ROSENBERG,
STANLEY B PRUSINER, SALVATORE DI MAURO, AND ROBERT L BARCHI. (Pp
1430). Published by Heinemann, Oxford, 1997. ISBN 0-7506-9668-0.
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This book is well known to many neurologists and represents the
foremost book for this area of neurological practice. The latest
edition is dedicated to the life and accomplishments of the late
professor Anita Harding and serves as a very fitting tribute to this
remarkable neurologist.
The book is divided into 23 sections and contains nearly 1500 pages of
text in the form of 77 chapters. It is therefore impossible to do
justice to a book of this nature in a short book review, but for detail
and clarity, there are few books to compete with this tome. The book
opens with an account of some of the more general issues in genetics
which is especially helpful for the non-specialist as it helps explain
the approach in tackling neurological disorders from a genetic point of
view. Indeed, this is ultimately the problem with a book of this type,
in that the field moves . . . [Full text of this article]
