Brain, Vol. 125, No. 10, 2367-2370,
October 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press
Book Review |
THE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES
Department of Neurology, The Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK
THE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES
Edited by Alan E. H. Emery
2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Price £69.50. pp. 328. ISBN 0192632914.
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This book is timely. Although there have of course been substantial developments in all areas of genetic disease, there can be few areas in which progress has been so rapid and has led to such fundamental shifts in practice, with respect to diagnostic strategy, and opinion with respect to the understanding of basic molecular mechanisms, than the muscular dystrophies. The clinically naive may note that these developments have not yet led to specific therapy and therefore doubt their importance, but their naivety blinds them to the enormous benefits of precise diagnosis.
The book’s editor, Alan Emery, is well known to all involved in the field of neuromuscular disease. He is one of those remarkable people who seem to have achieved as much in retirement as they did in their formal career. Following retirement, he set up the European Neuromuscular Centre and became its Research Director. The centre has now run