Scientific Foundations of Neurology

The editors have been successful in gathering a and Related Disorders provides standardized test distinguished team of contributors and many of the material and a method of scoring the results.It is chapters contain the authoritative views of a disimprobable that this would make it easier for the tinguished worker in a particular field.There is, novice to reach a diagnosis but it would enable however, considerable variation in style between the comparisons to be made on different test occasions different chapters, some of which are high level review and it would allow a speech profile to be constructed.articles whereas others deal with the material at a This might form a basis for a programme of treat-more elementary level in a relatively didactic style, ment and its assessment.and in future editions the editors might aim to Like other test material its application requires achieve a more uniform level of presentation.The skill but in experienced hands it should prove to be book as a whole contains a vast amount of informa-invaluLable.tion, much of it not readily accessible elsewhere, and I. T. DRAPER some of the chapters provide unusually interesting reading.This is a major contribution and likely to become one of the classics of neurology.The produc-