Neurodegeneration: The Molecular Pathology of Dementia and Movement Disorders

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Neurodegeneration: The Molecular Pathology of Dementia and Movement Disorders.Volume editor: Dennis Dickson. Chapter editors: Catherine Bergeron, Jean-Jacques Hauw, Kurt A. Jellinger, Peter L. Lantos, Hidehiro Mizusawa. ISN Neuropath Press, Basel Switzerland. ©2003. 414 pp, $85.00. This volume is a comprehensive review of neurodegenerative diseases describing clinical pathological findings and incorporating progress made in the past decade in the protein chemistry and genetics of these diseases. Dr. Dickson is to be commended for organizing the book based upon biochemical and molecular advances, when possible, rather than the traditional clinical and pathological classification. The book contains nine chapters, and, after an introductory chapter, covers the …