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Title: Comprehensive Neurology by Roger N. Rosenberg, David E. Pleasure ISBN: 0-471-16958-7 Publisher: Wiley-Liss Pub. Date: 17 April, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $282.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Information for those Ready for It
Comment: I am not myself a neurologist or M.D., but merely a lowly graduate student in psychophysiology. However, I found this book to most informative. To understand much of what it says does require a good working knowledge of biology, anatomy, and physiology, and familiarity with neuroanatomy and general neurosicence could be quite useful aswell, as is a reasonable medical vocabulary. (If you are not an M.D. or very experienced nurse you may want to keep a medical dictionary nearby, just in case -- and be warned that it may not contain term used!) Like most medical texts, and many other high-level books, each chapter has it own set of expert authors. This book does not beat around the bushes with basic information or trivial points, but delivers huge amounts of technical information on neurological disease, with an emphasis on the brain. This is wonderful! -- as long as you are ready for it. If you lack the back ground, however, you may find yourself overwhelmed -- and no-one should be so naive as to think you will remember everything it says, though you will learn a lot no where to get details in the future. One possible weekness of this book is it emphasis on the brain -- chapters on periferal neurology are included, but they are few compared to the numerous chapters on the brain. Also, this is a neurology text, and has only a short chapter on psychiatric conditions -- which is as it should be -- if you are interested in psychiatry, go to a psychiatry or neuropscyhiatry text, or on specifically on behavioral neurology.

Generally, I enjoyed this book, but I'm wierd, and suspect many would find it "dry" or to fast paced. Also, I read it straight through, and I am not sure that is how it was intended to be read -- it does work well as both a textbook and a refference, however, and I would recommend it highly for those with the background to understand and who find the price worth it.

How good it is as a text for actual medical students or physicians I can't say for sure, since I am researcher not one of the above. However, I suspect it would be excellent for them, too, as this is clearly the audience it was written for, and it spends a lot of time on practical issue in treating patients.