By David Greenberg, Michael Aminof, and Roger Simon (Pp 390 $39.95). McGraw-Hill Professional, New York, 2002. ISBN 0-07-137543-0

• teaching
• clinical neurology

Reviewing an undergraduate text is always quite a difficult task in that one has to approach one's speciality again through fresh and innocent eyes asking the simple question, would I recommend this? The book, in its fifth edition, claims to present a “problem oriented approach” that has been founded on the authors' experience in teaching both undergraduate students and junior medical staff at the University of California (San Francisco). The …