Field of medicine: Geriatrics.

Format: Hardcover book.

Audience: Geriatricians, internists, and neurologists.

Purpose: To give health professionals current details on many aspects of Alzheimer disease.

Content: A multiauthor, international description of current work in and the state of knowledge about Alzheimer disease.

Highlights: This book gives a broad look at Alzheimer disease, touching on everything from molecular biology to staging the illness to treatment issues. It features pertinent references and is well illustrated. Useful tables summarizing main points are dispersed throughout the chapters.

Limitations: Some of the writing is choppy; some is in the style of a bibliographic essay.

Context: The book is at its best when discussing the heterogeneity of Alzheimer disease and the approaches to the management and treatment of this condition.

Reviewer: David O. Staats, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.