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Book Reviews may be disappointed to find that research in this field is not apparently being directed much towards the study of aetiology and prevention, but simply to the analysis of the established disease. RECENT ADVANCES IN NEUROLOGY AND NEUROPSYCHIATRY 8th edn. Edited by the late Lord Brain and Marcia Wilkinson. (Pp. viii + 252; illustrated. 60s.) Churchill: London. 1969. The appearance of the 8th edition of this regular series is a reminder of the debt all readers owe to the late Lord Brain. The book has been seen through the press by his son and by Dr. Marcia Wilkinson, and has valuable chapters by invited contributors, but it contains some of Lord Brain's last writings on disorders of memory, otoneurology, disorders of cerebral circulation, and the carcinomatous neuromyopathies. It forms a welcome statement of some of the advances made since the last edition in 1962, but one is surprised to find only passing reference to low pressure hydrocephalus, no information on sub-acute panencephalitis or infection with slow viruses, and no recognition of the considerable advances made in the field of peripheral neuropathy. Carbamazepine, 1-dopa, and the wide range of neurotropic drugs have never been discussed in this series. All neurologists, will, nevertheless, want to have this useful volume, but perhaps the time has come to give psychiatry its own volume in the series. J. A. SIMPSON THERAPIE DER NERV'ENKRANKHEITEN (TREATMENT OF NERVOUS DISORDERS). Edited by K. Hartmann-v. Monakow. (Pp. xiv + 778; illustrated. 370s.) Karger: Basle (Academic Press: London). 1969. (In English and German.) This ambitious volume includes pages from nearly 50 contributors, but most of these consist merely of a collection of reported methods with little of the critical assessment one expects of an expert.