Key Environments: Galapagos Edited by Roger Perry Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1984, £14·95, $23·95

Neuroimaging Genetics Edited by Bigos et al. Oxford University Press

Over the last two decades, the association of genetic variation and brain function has received considerable attention. It is well established that most psychiatric and neurological diseases have a substantial genetic contribution. Therefore, investigating the influences of genotypes on brain structure and function should lead to a better understanding of the neurobiology of physiological brain...

Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, Edited by Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003)

Review of the Oxford handbook of philosophy of economics , edited by Harold Kincaid and Don Ross . New York : Oxford University

1 The Oxford handbook of philosophy of economics aims at bringing out what is new in the philosophy of economics—an aim that, I believe, has been successfully achieved. The introductory chapter by Don Ross and Harold Kincaid does a superb job of describing the current orientation of philosophy of economics, the result of developments in philosophy of science, in economics, and in the relationsh...

Imprinting: The Facts Ma'am, Just the Facts Genomic Imprinting Edited by Wolf Reik and Azim Surani Oxford: IRL Press (1997). 272 pp. $125.00

Historically, imprinting was identified in genetic crosses such complex disorders remains unknown. In this con-where different outcomes depended on whether the muta-text, a short discussion should have been incorporated tion was contributed by the mother or the father. The for an extremely active area of research on the genetics book presents many interesting human cases. For ex-of psychiatric ...

Book Review: Chronic Medical Disease & Cognitive Aging: Toward a Healthy Body and Brain, edited by Kristine Yaffe (New York Oxford University Press, 2013)

CANADIAN GERIATRICS JOURNAL, VOLUME 16, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2013 A large number of chronic medical conditions are now associated with late-life cognitive impairment. Much of this work has been brought together under the editorship of Kristine Yaffe at the University of California, San Francisco, in this collection. Chronic Medical Disease & Cognitive Aging: Toward a Healthy Body and Brain provid...