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Edited by Manuchair Ebadi and Ronald F. Pfeiffer. 1050 pp., illustrated. Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, 2005. $199.95. ISBN 0-8493-1590-5.

Two hundred fifty years after the birth of James Parkinson and 188 years since he wrote his seminal treatise on the "shaking palsy," the field of Parkinson's disease is expanding in exponential fashion. Recent insights into the genetic causes of familial Parkinson's disease, genetic risk factors in the general population, environmental influences, and the pathology, evolution, and management of this disorder continue to dominate the field of neurodegeneration. Given this rapid rate of progression, the reader might well ask where a major textbook on Parkinson's disease would fit. The answer in this case is that the book belongs on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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