Edited by C. Edward Coffey and Jeffrey L. Cummings, with Mark R. Lovell and Godfrey D. Pearlson. 720 pp., illustrated. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1994. $94.50. ISBN 0-88048-391-1.
As the world's population ages, the interdisciplinary fieldof geriatric medicine has begun to expand. With the recognitionthat aging brings with it changes in neurobiologic, psychosocial,and physical functioning, geriatric psychiatry has become animportant subspecialty of psychiatry, with its own society,textbooks, and subspecialty boards. Several excellent textbookson geriatric psychiatry and geriatric psychopharmacology areavailable. To this list must now be added the Textbook of GeriatricNeuropsychiatry, an outstanding multiauthored work that focuseson the neurobiologic basis of mood, behavior, and cognitionin later life. This new book represents an attempt to integrate,in the editors' words, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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