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Volume 348:1297-1298 March 27, 2003 Number 13
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Clinical Neurology of the Older Adult

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Edited by Joseph I. Sirven and Barbara L. Malamut. 558 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002. $65. ISBN 0-7817-2789-8.

Neurologic diseases in the geriatric population have become a major health problem, both because of our success in treating nonneurologic diseases and because of the advancing wave of aging baby boomers. In addition, neurons are postmitotic, which makes the brain less able than other organs to compensate after injury. Given the increased incidence and prevalence of geriatric neurologic problems, it behooves physicians to become knowledgeable in differentiating normal aging from disease states and to develop skills in the diagnosis and management of age-associated disorders. Clinical Neurology of the Older Adult is a comprehensive book geared toward geriatricians, primary care physicians, . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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