Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Third Series; Part I: Nuclei of the Human Hypothalamus; Part II: Neuropathology of the Human Hypothalamus and Adjacent Structures

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Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Third Series; Part I: Nuclei of the Human Hypothalamus; Part II: Neuropathology of the Human Hypothalamus and Adjacent Structures by D.F. Swaab , Part I, 502 pp., Elsevier, 2003, $195; Part II, 632 pp., Elsevier, 2003, $215 To many neurologists and other clinicians, the human hypothalamus may be nothing more than a few cubic centimeters of neuroendocrine tissue, all too often excluded from standard neuropathologic examinations or brain maps. Dick Swaab may change that perception permanently with the first two volumes of the third series of the Handbook of Clinical Neurology . He has compiled and reviewed simply everything there is to know about this structure in a 1,000-page …