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edited by Howard S. Kirshner, 532 pp, with illus, $175, New York, NY, Marcel Dekker Inc, 1995.

John V. Bowler, MBBS, Reviewer
London, Ontario

Arch Neurol. 1995;52(12):1140.

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The first five chapters of Neurologic Disease and Therapy: Handbook of Neurological Speech and Language Disorders cover terminology, give useful schemes for bedside examination, and discuss classic syndromes, apraxia of speech, and basic anatomy. Beyond these basic chapters, the book proceeds into increasing detail discussing a wide range of dysphasia either by the pattern of dysphasia, for example, conduction aphasia, or by etiology, for example, head injury. These chapters include, for example, sections on language and epilepsy, naming disorders, alexias, positron emission tomography, the right hemisphere, head injury, aphasia in old age and dementia, and pharmacotherapy. The order of the chapters is somewhat confused. Research techniques, psychological tests, syndromes, etiologies, and anatomic sites are mixed together. However, the chapters cover virtually all aspects of dysphasia and dysarthria and fortunately describe and illustrate the speech disorders discussed, in addition to the using aphasiologist's code, which is a boon to the nonexpert . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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