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Cognitive deficits in brain disorders

Edited by John E Harrison and Adrian M Owen (Pp 370, £39.95). Published by Martin Dunitz, London, 2002. ISBN 1-85317-921-3

Keywords: neuropsychology; cognitive deficits; autism

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Conceived by its editors over a beer in the Cambridge Arms pub, this multiauthored volume aims to be a definitive textbook on the cognitive correlates of neurological disease. The chapters cover the entire spectrum of neuropsychological symptoms, some themed according to anatomical loci, others concentrating on particular disorders. Some of the chapters are outstanding in their clarity and insight; the majority are solid, scholarly affairs, while even the poorer chapters give food for thought.

I have to admit that I found the editors’ opening contribution to fall into the last category. Harrison and Owen’s chapter comes across as overly pessimistic and lacking in enthusiasm towards the project of relating brain structure to function. After all, without attempts to relate symptoms to neurological damage, how can we be sure that the neuroimagers’ illuminated brains have any basis in reality?

The other contributions come from institutions as far afield as the United . . . [Full text of this article]