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Brain, Vol. 126, No. 2, 510-511, February 2003
© 2003 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awg025

Book Review

DISORDERED MIND AND BRAIN

P. C. Fletcher

Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK

DISORDERED MIND AND BRAIN
By Peter F. Liddle
2001. London: Gaskell Publications Dept
Price £40. pp. 320. ISBN 190124265X.

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The brain is of growing interest to psychiatrists and clinical psychologists. The new fascination invites a challenge: a need to describe high level, complex behavioural impairments in terms of underlying neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry. This is most difficult but there are, perhaps, grounds for optimism. The introduction and refinement of, for example, the functional neuroimaging techniques has reinvigorated the exploration of the neuronal bases for normal behaviour and emotion. We are promised insights to the location and nature of the brain disruptions that produce sundry mental symptoms. These developments, together with improvements in structural imaging and breathtakingly rapid advances in a number of neuroscientific fields, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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