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Neurology: A Queen Square Textbook
3rd Edition (Published April 2024)
Edited by Robin Howard, Dimitri Kullmann, David Werring and Michael Zandi
ISBN 978-1-119-71553-5
Price £232
Before I go any further, I should declare that I had a close relative treated superbly well at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCL at Queen Square Institute of Neurology (the home of this textbook) in Central London. So I have a good impression of this centre of excellence.
Putting that aside, this up-to-date textbook exudes excellence and is clearly aimed at a neurology specialist, either in training or an established neurologist. Established neurologists are likely to have a subspeciality interest. They need to keep up to date, and this superb book will help them keep abreast of developments in other areas of their speciality beyond their area of specialisation.
This well-built hardback book contains 1253 pages packed full of information and data, making it an ideal one-stop reference source and a book to dip into and read a specific section. All the contributors, as do the editors, seem to be associated with The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCL at Queen Square Institute of Neurology.
An impressive array of academic talent has contributed to this book, and I guess that the fact that they work in the same institution and are colleagues hopefully helps to produce a good book.
Although this is a text-heavy, detailed textbook, it is not dull—far from it. There are plenty of tables, images, and figures. It is no great surprise that this scholarly book is an impressive and detailed review of clinical neurology. It is well written, and from its background, it is a book I am sure you can trust.
I would imagine for a front-line neurologist, this could be a high-quality go-to text for most issues and then consulting the medical literature for rare and unusual problems (though a lot of this is covered in this book).
I decided to look up the rare and unusual condition, Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder. On Page 645, there was an excellent, detailed, but highly readable description of the condition. Accompanying the text was a box with diagnostic criteria for adults (Page 648) and an excellent figure (Page 649) containing a treatment algorithm.
This is a superb book that I am sure will interest many neurologists worldwide. Admittedly, it is expensive, but this is a high-quality premium product, and premium products often come at premium prices.
