Book Review: The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory Animals

in different publications. This process merely blurs the flow of scientific information. A typical example is this book, which reviews the possible role of enzymes in alcohol addiction, action of hallucinogens, inborn errors of metabolism, ageing, dreaming,.,mental defect, memory and schizophrenia, with a final chapter entitled 'Building Better Brains'. Some papers present useful reviews of their subject matter. Others are some 5-8 pages long, followed by a list of hundreds of references. The resulting book is hardly readable in the ordinary sense. However, the reader with an interest in biochemical factors in psychiatry will find certain chapters rewarding in bringing new facts and ideas to his notice, in particular in the range of references given. Of particular value are the chapters on narcotic addiction, dreaming and inborn errors ofmetabolism.