Fronto-Temporal Lobar Degeneration: Fronto-Temporal Dementia, Progressive Aphasia, Semantic Dementia.

Abstract

Fronto-Temporal Lobar Degeneration: Fronto-Temporal Dementia, Progressive Aphasia, Semantic Dementia. Edited by: j s snowden, david neary, and d m mann. (Pp 227; £55.00). Published by Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh 1996. ISBN 0443047650. The three editors of this book have played a central part in the renaissance of interest in the clinical, neuropsychological, and neuropathological aspects of non-Alzheimer dementias. This book is based on their truly remarkable experience of some 200 patients with lobar atrophy studied over the past decade, 40 of whom have reached postmortem. It represents, therefore, an unequalled source of information and is essential reading for all …