Drug Action in the Central Nervous System

From our regular book review column.

One has to admire an author who sets out on the lone journey to master the vast territory of the central nervous system. Most would take the safer, well-traveled road of editing a textbook with multiple contributors. There are risks to both formats— the first format has the potential to produce factual errors because of the enormity of the knowledge base; the second format can lead to a choppy, uneven, unreadable textbook.