edited by Margaret M. Esiri, FRCPath, Virginia M. Lee, PhD, and John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD, 578 pp, with illus, $375, ISBN 0-521-81915-6, Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
The extensively updated second edition of this book is composed of 24 chapters covering the neuropathology of diseases associated with dementia. Clinical, neuroimaging, and genetic features of the diseases are discussed as well. Three of the chapters are devoted to research methods. Each chapter is essentially an independent review article written by some of the best known experts on the subject. Most of the authors are from the United States and the United Kingdom.