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Age and Ageing 2007 36(4):478; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm062
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society.

The Behavioural and Cognitive Neurology of Stroke

Edited by Olivier Godefroy and Julien Bogousslavsky

Olivier Godefroy and Julien Bogousslavsky The Behavioural and Cognitive Neurology of Stroke Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 0521842611. £85

This book achieves its aim of filling the gap between clinical and cognitive neurosciences with a comprehensive review of the main brain functions and the disorders observed in stroke patients.

Its 32 chapters, with multiple authors, range through motor disorders, aphasia and arthric disorders, neglect syndromes, agnosias, dysexecutive syndromes, behavioural and mood disorders, and vascular dementia.

The format is user friendly with a subject overview identifying the clinical relevance in stroke from acute presentation through to rehabilitation. There is a framework for bedside examination using simple assessment tools. The importance of early identification of these deficits is stressed, commonly being predictors of poor final outcome. Strategies for treatment and key points are given.

The role of newer imaging modalities in untangling the clinical–anatomical correlates in the early post-acute stroke and rehabilitation periods is demonstrated, although the quality of the pictures and illustrations is variable.

I would recommend this book to a colleague who wished to have a deeper understanding of the complex disorders which may be the only residual consequences of stroke, but which may also be quite dehumanising.

Diane E. Ames

Email: diane.ames{at}st-marys.nhs.uk


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