Brain, Vol. 123, No. 9, 1972-1973,
September 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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AUTONOMIC FAILURE: A TEXTBOOK OF CLINICAL DISORDERS OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM.
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Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
The last decade has seen an increasing interest in the study of disorders of the autonomic nervous system. For too long, the autonomic nervous system has been regarded by neurologists as a field which might well be worth more interest, but which at the same time was so complicated that no one dared go into it. This situation is now changing; as the editors state in the preface, autonomic units are now to be found in many major hospitals. The knowledge gained in such centres is slowly diffusing into
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