摘要: How much of this rapidly expanding field can you cover in 452 pages (including references and index)? To their credit, the editor and authors of this text have included all the inherited neurological diseases which are likely to be of major interest to clinical neur-ologists and clinical geneticists. In addition, judging by the number oftimes this reviewer's copy was borrowed, molecular geneticists working with these diseases will also find the chapters enlightening. The chapters are all well written, comprehensible, and, in addition to providing excellent reviews of their subjects, provide an insight into the issues of genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity as they relate to the specific disease groups. The chapters on hereditary ataxias (Banfi and Zoghbi) and