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Edited by Charles E. Wells, MD. Price, $10.00. Pp 239. FA Davis Co, Philadelphia, 1971.

Arch Neurol. 1972;27(2):189.

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The chapters on symptoms, examination, and management are simple and qualitative, and directed to the novice. Clinical psychological testing is discussed by S. Horenstein in a summary that will be of use to many practicing neurologists whose knowledge of the psychometric techniques is lacking or rusty. The role of the electroencephalogram in differentiating between focal and diffuse dementing disorders, and the changes that occur with aging are concisely described. The section on neuroradiology seems banal and perfunctory.

By contrast with this low-key approach, R. M. Torack confines his discussion of pathology to electron microscopic studies referring the reader to McMenemy's chapter in Greenfield's Neuropathology for gross and light microscopic findings. Only subacute dementias (Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, subacute spongiform degeneration, and corticostriatal-cerebellar degeneration) and some rare chronic dementias are illustrated, even with electron micrographs. The author proposes a new classification of the primary dementias which, while interesting, is not followed elsewhere . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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