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Music and the Brain Studies in the Neurology of Music

Clinical Neurosurgery Volume 23 Editor-in-chief E. B. Keener. (Pp. 562; illustrated; £19.95, $28.50.) Williams and Wilkins: Atlanta, Georgia. 1976. This volume is probably the most useful contribution which North America makes to the world literature on this subject. The year's delay in reporting the meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons is no longer than that commonly imposed by prestige journals; moreover the resulting papers are fresher than many 'originals' which often bear the marks of over-rigid editing. Conference proceedings are often denigrated as belated, unedited accounts of large numbers of brief papers, many of which were not interesting even when read. Clinical Neurosurgery is different because the Congress is different. Each year two or three topics are chosen, and surgeons known to have something to say and to be capable communicators are asked to speak. As specialisation grows even within superspecialities, review articles of this kind, which are both up-to-date and authoritative, become more and more important. Another nice touch is to invite a senior neurosurgeon as guest of honour, for someone to review the guest's contribution and then ask him to sing for his supper. In this volume William Sweet does so harmoniously, with diversity and elegance. As expected he reviews his great experience with painrelieving procedures (cordotomy, facial pain, and peripheral stimulation); but he also deals with craniopharyngioma, and his final paper is advice for the neurosurgeon faced with a malpractice suit. There are three other chapters on aspects of malpractice, a topic which also attracted the attention of a recent Ger-