Clinical Neuropsychology. Fourth Edition. Kenneth M. Heilman and Edward Valenstein (Eds.). 2003. New York: Oxford University Press. 744 pp., $78.00 (HB).

As a 1st-year graduate student and new convert to clinical neuropsychology, the second book I purchased in this exciting area was the first edition of Heilman and Valenstein's “Clinical Neuropsychology” published in 1979. It will come as no surprise to most readers that the first book I purchased was Lezak's first edition of “Neuropsychological Assessment,” published 3 years earlier, and of course a required text for our graduate course. As a teacher of that very same course over the past 18 years, I have recommended the various editions of both these texts to my students as the “standard” texts, a practice I imagine is shared world-wide. Thus, at one level it seems almost unnecessary to write a review of such a classic text, and at the same time to do it justice is a humbling task which I have no hope of fulfilling. All I can do is give a small taste of this latest offering edited by two of the great neurologists (and neuropsychologists) of modern times.