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This is a further nice example of a successful collection. The chapters are well written and have been well organized by the two editors. It is therefore a pity that the book title is rather misleading. Indeed ‘Degenerative Dementias’ would be more appropriate, since non-neurodegenerative diseases have been either omitted (dementia associated with systemic diseases) or superficially treated (vascular dementia). A few ‘new’ diseases are not mentioned, such as CADASIL (except in one table). Behavioural, cognitive and psychiatric features of dementia syndromes have also been omitted, as well as the psychosocial aspects. For these reasons, the book will be more useful to scientists, researchers and students looking for nosological updates than for clinicians dealing with day-to-day problems of demented patients. J. Bogousslavsky, Lausanne H. Duvernoy