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Neurology Update

Department of Neurology, Inselspital, 3010 Bern, Switzerland; heinrich.mattle@insel.ch

Neurology Update. Edited by Huw Morris. 45.00/$85.00 (paperback). Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford, 2005. ISBN 1 85775 722 X

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This book contains, in 330 pages, a collection of articles devoted to neurology which have been reprinted from the Postgraduate Medical Journal. There are contributions from geriatricians, rheumatologists, psychiatrists, and neurologists, reflecting the range of doctors who take care of patients with neurological disorders in the United Kingdom. Nonetheless, Neurology Update is aimed at an international readership. Therefore, the selection of articles is very wise, spanning epilepsy and syncope, infectious and para-infectious disease, neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation, and stroke. Most articles are comprehensive, outstanding, interesting, and relevant to the daily routine of most doctors. Only a few chapters are forlorn and will not be of much interest to the average reader. An example of an outstanding overview is the one on encephalitis. An example of a forlorn chapter—although interesting from the scientific point of view—is the 20 pages devoted to subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. There are many CT and MR figures but . . . [Full text of this article]