1. Human nutrition and dietetics;Davidson, S.; Passmore, R.; Brock, J.F.; Truswell, A.S.,1975
2. Nutrition in the clinical management of disease;Dickerson, J.W.T.; Lee, H.A.,1978
3. Specialised neurological study Organic Brain Syndromes: an Introduction to Neurobehavioral Disorders. Richard L Strub and F William Black. (Pp 423; approx £15.) F A Davis,1981
4. system examinations in medicine the examination of mental status is the hardest to teach and to perform. Although the formal neurological examination is intricate, it is nevertheless based on tangible anatomy and indicates pathophysiology; but who has seen the mind ? And what is the localising value of a failure to interpret proverbs? Are neurobehavioural signs neurological, psychiatric, or sociological in any one instance? The authors of this book published a paperback in 1977 called The Mental Statuls Examination in Neuirology, in which a system for examining levels of consciousness, attention, behaviour, language, memory, constructional ability, and higher cognitive processes was well described in full detail. That book in condensed form with some limbic and reticular anatomy (including a discussion of "fibrous pathways";Of all the,(sic)
5. deals with major clinical organic brain syndromes such as acute confusional states; Alzheimer's disease; other dementias, both treatable and untreatable; and syndromes associated with focal brain lesions. These are covered well, with succinct case histories and full documentation, but I do not understand why they use 1975 computed tomography scans in a book published in 1981. Certain specific syndromes associated with vascular, infective, toxic, and traumatic brain disease and with epilepsy are described in section III, again with much use of case histories but with appropriate clinical discussions of differential diagnosis, investigation, and management. In the final section such borderland syndromes as sleep disorders and periodic psychoses and schizophrenia and depressive illnesses are briefly discussed from a neurological standpoint;Section, II