Inflammatory Diseases of the Brain (Medical Radiology/Diagnostic Imaging). S. Hähnel, ed. Springer; 2009, 240 pages, 352 illustrations, $109.00. Inflammatory and infectious diseases are often part of the differential diagnosis of brain pathology, particularly in immunocompromised individuals. Neuroimaging, specifically advanced techniques
Neurovascular Neuropsychology. J.R. Festa and R.M. Lazar, eds. Springer; 2009, 315 pages, 46 illustrations, $149.00. What determines human cognition and behavior has been a topic of intense speculation and investigation for centuries. In the days of Broca and Alzheimer, the
Balloon Kyphoplasty. S. Becker and M. Ogon, eds. New York: Springer Wien; 2008, 165 pages, 80 illustrations, $139.00. Balloon Kyphoplasty is 165 pages long and has numerous and appropriate illustrations. It covers the technique for balloon-assisted vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty well
Arthritis in Color: Advanced Imaging of Arthritis. M.A. Bruno, T.J. Mosher, and G.E. Gold, eds. Saunders Elsevier; 2009, 240 pages, 220 illustrations, $99.00. One of the burgeoning topics in medicine today is the treatment and imaging of arthritis and cartilage
Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of the Brain. T. Moritani, S. Ekholm, and P.-L. Westesson, eds. Springer; 2009, 402 pages, 700 illustrations, $189.00. In an expanded second edition of their clinically important book Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of the Brain, Drs. Moritani, Ekholm,
Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery, Vol. 34. J.D. Pickard, N. Akalan, C. Di Rocco, V.V. Dolenc, J. Lobo Antunes, J.J.A. Mooij, J. Schramm, and M. Sindou, eds. New York: Springer Wien; 2009, 206 pages, 55 figures, $209.00. This series
HIV and the Brain: New Challenges in the Modern Era (Current Clinical Neurology). R.H. Paul, N.C. Sacktor, V. Valcour, and K.T. Tashima, eds. Totowa, New Jersey: Humana Press; 2009, 400 pages, 10 illustrations, $139.00. This enjoyable and fascinating 400-page book,
EXPERT ddx Brain and Spine. A. Osborn, J. Ross, K. Salzman, J. Crim, B. Borg, K. Moore, L. Shah, M. Jhaveri, B. Hamilton, S. Blaser, and G. Katzman., eds. Amirsys; 2009, 1000 pages, 3300 illustrations, $329.00. In a completion of
Ischemia and Loss of Vascular Autoregulation in Ocular and Cerebral Disease: A New Perspective. M.E. Langham. Springer; 2009, 192 pages, 94 illustrations, $99.00. Maurice E. Langham’s Ischemia and Loss of Vascular Autoregulation in Ocular and Cerebral Diseases: A New Perspective
The Neurological Manifestations of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiency Syndromes. L.L. Barton and N.R. Friedman, eds. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2008, 421 pages, 21 illustrations, $139.00. Although not a book with wide appeal for neuroradiologists, this broad but somewhat superficial
