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(Clinical Practice. No. 31.) Edited by Brian A. Lawlor. 272 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1995. $35. ISBN 0-88048-477-2.

This ambitious book covers a diverse set of topics ranging from the biochemical correlates of behavioral aberrations in Alzheimer's disease to psychosocial interventions and long-term care in end-stage dementia. Let me begin by acknowledging that my bias as a geriatric psychiatrist is that the cognitive and "behavioral" complications of Alzheimer's disease are inextricably linked; they are merely different clinical manifestations of the same biologic process. I am therefore skeptical of any attempt to treat the behavioral manifestations of this disorder as distinct from the more widely recognized cognitive features. My bias notwithstanding, this book is a very readable, cohesive account . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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