Edited by Donald T Stuss, Gordon Winocur, and Ian H Robertson (Pp 385, £64.95). Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999. ISBN 0 521 58102 8

• Stuss DS
• Winocur G
• Robertson IH
• editors. Cognitive neurorehabilitation

As the French term “re-education” implies, learning is a key process in rehabilitation. Nothing might seem more challenging than to effect useful learning in people with cognitive impairments. Until recently, a cloud of pessimism hung over cognitive deficits, but the later sections of this useful book provide authoritative evidence that interventions can produce positive changes in people with impairments in memory, in attention, …