Edited by D P Moore (Pp 747, £69.50). Arnold, London, 2001. ISBN 0340806249

There is a certain logic to the system Moore uses in his textbook of clinical neuropsychiatry. The first half of the book essentially consists of numerous lists of causes of different symptoms, signs, and syndromes. For example lists are provided for causes of dementia lacking distinctive features, dementia associated with strokes, and dementia with frontal lobe syndrome or with parkinsonism. Confronted with a patient with dementia plus parkinsonism the reader has quick access to conditions that need to be considered. Or if the reader is looking for a list of …