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Brain, Vol. 122, No. 4, 788-789, April 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

Book Reviews

THE NEUROSCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES OF SWALLOWING AND DYSPHAGIA.

By Arthur J. Miller (Series Editor J. C. Rosenbeck). 1999. Pp. 284. San Diego and London: Singular Publishing Group Inc. Price £49.50. ISBN 1-56593-859-3..

C. M. Wiles

University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK

The Singular Publishing Group (http://www.singpub.com) are currently on a roll which celebrates the arrival of dysphagia as a matter of clinical and scientific interest; they have seven books (of which this is one) published in 1998–9 covering dysphagia assessment, treatment, management, cancer, neurogenic dysphagia and the neuroscientific principles to prove it. For a neurologist ten years ago it was difficult to find any mention of the topic in a standard textbook index, so why has this change in interest occurred? It was always appreciated that patients with neurological diseases often died of pneumonia and most clinicians had an intuitive idea of the importance of swallowing and its . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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