Edited by A K Asbury, G M McKhann, W I McDonald, et al. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, £250.00, II volumes. ISBN 0-521-79351-3

The third edition of this well known book is subtitled Clinical neuroscience and therapeutic principles. This signifies that it is not a textbook of clinical practice, but a reference book founded in pathophysiology. So how well does it succeed? With 221 authors writing 129 chapters some unevenness is inevitable. It is a tribute to the editors’ tight grip that the overall coverage of neurological disease is …