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Brain, Vol. 125, No. 5, 1163-1164, May 2002
© 2002 Guarantors of Brain

Book Review

NEUROBIOLOGY OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, 2ND EDN

J. R. T. Greene

MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, Department of Anatomy, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

NEUROBIOLOGY OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, 2ND EDITION
Edited by David Dawbarn and Shelley J. Allen.
2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Price £35. pp. 426. ISBN 0-19-852459-5.

This is the second edition of a well-regarded book about Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It took 41 experts to write, so it is a tall order to expect just one person to review it. Fortunately, I can start with a simple emotional response by making it clear that I really enjoyed the job. It may not be Harry Potter, but it has a page turning quality that is usually absent from works of equivalent academic merit. Many of the authors have written or contributed to other books and I am sure that the readability of this volume owes something to that experience. There is another slightly unusual feature of the book that stems from the choice of authors, and to a certain extent the literature they have . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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