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Parkinson's Disease: The Treatment Options
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Parkinson's Disease: The Treatment Options. Edited by peter lewittand wolfgang oertel. (Pp 272, £65.00). Published by Martin Dunitz, London. ISBN 1-85317-379-7.
This book is one of many that are emerging on the market which consider the issues of the best approaches to the evaluation and treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease. This is a complex area that is constantly changing—the move away from levodopa to dopamine agonists and deep brain stimulation as opposed to pallidotomy being two modern examples. However, this book tries to present a balanced account of the various options and to my mind gives a clear account of the issues and the advantages and disadvantages of these various options.
The book is divided into 16 chapters, of which half deal with the therapeutic options and the others concentrate on aetiology, pathology, differential diagnosis, and …