The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurological Disease.

The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurological Disease. Second edition. Edited by roger n rosenberg, stanley b prusiner, salvatore di mauro, and robert l barchi. (Pp 1430). Published by Heinemann, Oxford, 1997. ISBN 0-7506-9668-0. This book is well known to many neurologists and represents the foremost book for this area of neurological practice. The latest edition is dedicated to the life and accomplishments of the late professor Anita Harding and serves as a very fitting tribute to this remarkable neurologist. The book is divided into 23 sections and contains nearly 1500 pages of text in the form of 77 chapters. It is therefore impossible to do justice to a book of this nature in a short book review, but …