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Book review
Cognitive deficits in brain disorders
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Edited by John E Harrison and Adrian M Owen (Pp 370, £39.95). Published by Martin Dunitz, London, 2002. ISBN 1-85317-921-3
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 …