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Edited by C. Edward Coffey and Roger A. Brumback. 1566 pp., illustrated. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1998. $150. ISBN 0-88048-766-6.

Alexander Pope said, "The proper study of mankind is man." Surely, studying the development of the human brain, mind, and personality — and their disorders — is one of the great scientific tasks of the coming century. In past generations, humans studied humans by observation and contemplation, a process systematized to great advantage by psychologists. And as always in medicine, disease provides not only the practical spur, but also the indispensable key to such investigation.

The editors of the Textbook of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry define neuropsychiatry as the discipline devoted to understanding the neurobiologic basis of human behavior. This massive book . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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