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Previous Volume 330:1837 June 23, 1994 Number 25

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(Neurological Disease and Therapy. Vol. 18.) Edited by Matthew B. Stern and William C. Koller. 555 pp., illustrated. New York, Marcel Dekker, 1993. $195. ISBN 0-8247-8838-9.

The editors of this book (which I reviewed in collaboration with the faculty and residents of the Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine) identified an enthusiastic group of young neurologists, "a new breed of clinicians," to contribute chapters about movement disorders similar to Parkinson's disease that have their own features and pathophysiologic mechanisms. Despite some confusion in nomenclature caused by their use of the term "parkinsonian syndromes," the editors acknowledge that each of these syndromes must be differentiated from typical, idiopathic Parkinson's disease. This comprehensive book uses a classic clinical approach to distinguish and identify the various syndromes.

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