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edited by Didier Leys, Florence Pasquier, and Philip Scheltens, 225 pp, ISBN 90-5560-061-9, The Hague, the Netherlands, Holland Academic Graphics, 1998.

Arch Neurol. 2000;57:756.

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I was struck at the outset by the incongruous title of this textbook and prior to reading it at any depth scanned its contents and index for information and themes that would reconcile focus on the disparate topics of stroke and Alzheimer disease in the same discussion. It seems to me a much more logical and appealing title would be Stroke and Dementia, particularly given the controversy and evolution of thought about the association of stroke and dementia in the past decade. Early and later chapters of the textbook do indeed attend to these broader topics.

However, sandwiched between these chapters are speculations on epidemiologic associations between stroke and Alzheimer disease and speculations, in particular, about the role of cerebral amyloid in producing ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. Unfortunately, this suggests to the reader that Alzheimer disease and dementia can be considered interchangeable concepts. To obfuscate matters further, the text . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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