Archive for the ‘Book Reviews’ Category

Vaccaro AR, Eck JC, eds. Controversies in Spine Surgery:  Best Evidence Recommendations. Thieme, New York, Stuttgart. 279 pages, $139.95. This an important book because it attempts to answer the most perplexing questions which face any [...]

Development of Normal Fetal Movements By Alessandra Piontelli Springer 2010, 250 pages, $129.00 Neuropsychiatric Disorders Koho Miyoshi, Yasushi Morimura, Kiyoshi Maeda (Editors) Springer 2010, 368 pages, 39 illustrations, $219.00

Schober O, Heindel W. PET-CT Hybrid Imaging. Thieme 2010 Stuttgart, New York. 296 pages, 623 illustrations. Nuclear medicine, once considered somewhat removed from the daily practice of Neuroradiology, has entered our lives, particularly (but not [...]

Chaudhuri KR, Ondo WG. Movement Disorders in Clinical Practice. Springer 2010, 100 pages, $39.95. This small 109-page soft cover monograph is mainly intended for clinicians who deal with movement disorders. It covers Parkinson’s Disease (25% [...]

Kahle W, Frotscher M, eds. Color Atlas of Human Anatomy, Vol. 3: Nervous System and Sensory Organs. 6th ed. Thieme 2011, 428 pages, 181 illustrations, $44.95. This pocket-sized, soft cover, 428-page color atlas is designed [...]

Blom JD. A Dictionary of Hallucinations. Springer 2010, 553 pages, 100 illustrations, $99.00. Although this clearly is not a neuroradiology textbook, it is nonetheless fascinating. The author of this 500-page hardcover book, Dr. Jan Dirk [...]

Moeller TB, Reif E, eds. Pocket Atlas of Radiographic Anatomy, 3rd Ed. Thieme 2010,400 pages,283 illustrations, $44.95. This Pocket Atlas of 400 pages is a reference for radiology technologists relative to basic anatomic structures on [...]

Rabinstein AA, Resnick SJ. Practical Neuroimaging in Stroke: A Case-Based Approach. SAUNDERS Elsevier 2009, 416 pages, $186.00. This 416-page hardcover book is a compilation of case material, basically called “case vignette” and comes with the [...]

Multiple Sclerosis 3 Blue Books of Neurology Series, Volume 35 By Claudia Lucchinetti, MD and Reinhard Hohlfeld, MD Saunders Elsevier 2010, 496 pages, $207.00 Restless Legs Syndrome By Wayne A. Hening, MD, PhD, Richard Allen, [...]

Dobbs MR, ed. Clinical Neurotoxicology: Syndromes, Substances, Environments. SAUNDERS Elsevier 2010, 720 pages, $186.00. In a very topical and important new 720-page text Clinical Neurotoxicology: Syndromes, Substances, Environments Michael R. Dobbs, the editor, and 65 [...]