Brain, Vol. 124, No. 2, 447-448,
February 2001
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MEDICAL NEUROSCIENCES. AN APPROACH TO ANATOMY, PATHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY BY SYSTEMS AND LEVELS.
Fourth edition. By Eduardo Benarroch, Barbara Westmoreland, Jasper Daube, Thomas Reagan and Burton Sandok. 1999. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Price $39.95. Pp. 631. ISBN 0-78-171426-5.
Institute of Neurological Sciences, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK
For one long since cast adrift on the sea of clinical neurology, a text that offers to review and update knowledge of basic neuroscience as a framework for the evaluation of clinical problems is most welcome. The fourth edition of Medical Neurosciences is, like its predecessors, the product of academic neurologists based at the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation. The authors in the introduction outline the importance of integrated neuroscience for the clinician, emphasizing that the prerequisite for diagnosis and management is an understanding of the anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of disease states. To this end