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edited by Kenneth M. Heilman and Edward Valenstein, 644 pp, $19.50, New York, Oxford University Press, 1979.

Freda Newcombe, PhD, Reviewer
Neuropsychology Unit Department of Neurology The Churchill Hospital Headington Oxford 0X3 7LJ England

Arch Neurol. 1980;37(11):739.

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Until recently, there were few, if any, good textbooks on neuropsychology to recommend to colleagues and students in the neurosciences. Suddenly, one or two strong candidates appeared to fill the gap. The present volume has much in its favor. Above all, it is a clinician's handbook. It gives a clear picture of current knowledge in the traditional fields of the neurologist.

Aphasic disorders are discussed briskly by Benson in terms of the now widely used Bostonian taxonomy. The student is not exposed to the jargon of psycholinguistics; deep structures are fascinating, but they do not yet contribute to the practical demands of a busy hospital ward. Similarly Marcie and Hécaen's chapter on agraphia and Levin's on acalculia describe these disorders in terms of their classification and presumptive neuroanatomical substrate; theoretical speculation does not intrude.

Chapters on apraxia by Heilman and on body-schema disturbances and visuospatial deficits by Benton give a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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