Brain, Vol. 122, No. 6, 1202-1204,
June 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
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Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK
This is a recent addition to the `Blue Books of Practical Neurology' series, and, like its sister volumes, is intended for physicians who have to manage people with neurological disorders in the context of their normal daily routine. Although I suspect that the majority of the target audience is probably neurologists, whether trained or in training, the series is clearly also meant to help colleagues in related disciplines, and in this case I imagine specifically psychiatry, geriatrics and internal medicine. The subject matter clearly fulfils the selection criteria used by the series editors, namely that the subject of each monograph has to be an area of medicine in which there has been a significant advance in knowledge, and also that such advances have been, or are being, translated into new ways of managing patients. There can be very few areas of medicine that fulfil these principles more than the field
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