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Volume 336:813-814 March 13, 1997 Number 11
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Neurological Disorders: Course and treatment

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Edited by Thomas Brandt, Louis R. Caplan, Johannes Dichgans, H. Christoph Diener, and Christopher Kennard. 1150 pp., illustrated. San Diego, Calif., Academic Press, 1996. $139.95. ISBN 0-12-125830-0.

This book, the combined effort of 136 authors in 95 chapters, covers a broad spectrum of neurologic disorders. After I read it, the days seemed distant when neurology was considered a specialty with an intricate nosology, an abundance of clinical names, and a notorious lack of remedies. Neurological Disorders: Course and Treatment is a fine effort that brings together not only a wealth of treatments for neurologic disorders, but also data of enormous value for decision making. It even provides elements for discussion between the clinician and the patient on the important issue of cost and benefit.

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