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Edited by Patrick R. Hof and Charles V. Mobbs. 960 pp., illustrated. San Diego, Calif., Academic Press, 2001. $169.95. ISBN 0-12-351830-X.

In the past half century, new genetic, biochemical, neuropathological, neurocognitive, and neuroimaging methods have led to a better understanding of brain disease and have allowed us to distinguish such disease from the aging of a healthy brain. Functional Neurobiology of Aging, a comprehensive, multiauthored book, critically examines the details and implications of these approaches. The book should be read by anyone interested in the structure and function of aging and diseased nervous systems, in humans and in animals. The book's 64 chapters are conveniently arranged in four integrated categories: memory and cognition, the senses (e.g., vision and hearing), movement and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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