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By Arthur L Benton, PhD. Price, $10. Pp 260. Harper & Row Publishers Inc, 49 E 33rd St, New York 10016, 1970.

MARTHA BRIDGE DENCKLA, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1971;25(2):189.

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The edited proceedings of a workshop on a topic of great practical and theoretical importance can be recommended reading for two reasons: either one is interested in upto-date reviews of the subject matter of the workshop, or one is interested in a prospective overview of issues, problems, and controversies as dramatized by the exchange among experts.

This volume succeeds as a review for "outsiders" in only a few of its presentations: those by A. B. Baker and Manfred J. Meier in the section on "Anatomical Determinants of Behavioral Change," by Norman Geschwind on "Language Disturbances in Cerebrovascular Disease," and by Frederic L. Darley on "Language Rehabilitation." These three can be singled out as useful for teaching purposes, as they are not too lengthy or detailed, yet are sources of wellorganized facts and references. For these sections alone, this book deserves a place in neurological departmental libraries.

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