'It has been my experience', writes Dr. Selling, 'that the best students have made systematic outlines for themselves because in neuropsychiatry such standardized aids were not at hand, and they found themselves overwhelmed by the detail of conventional medical textbooks.' This synopsis represents such a 'standardized aid' and falls naturally into the neurological part, 296 pages of outline information on the structure, function, and disease of the nervous system; and the psychiatric part, 177 pages on mental disorders. The neurological part is by all odds the most informative, since its subject matter is easier to outline: it conforms to an excellent standard of note-taking, but suffers from a lack of pictures, which so often explain at a glance the meaning of many pages of description. The psychiatric part bites off more than it can chew; it resembles the notes taken on a too compressed course, one which tries to cram the student with all there is to know