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Acknowledgements
I am indebted to Professor Nick Fox, Professor Steve
Gentleman, Dr Andrew MacKinnon, Dr Gemma
Northam, Dr Gil Rabinovici, Professor László Seress and
Professor Roy Weller for kindly providing various scans,
micrographs and other images (in some cases more
than one).
Thank you also to the following expert reviewers for
their invaluable comments and suggestions on the stroke,
epilepsy, dementia and Parkinson’s disease chapters:
Dr John Bamford, Professor Paul Bolam, Dr Peter Garrard,
Professor Steve Gentleman, Professor David Mann, Dr Barry
Moynihan, Dr Andrew Nicolson, Dr Dominic Paviour,
Dr Maria Thom, Professor Michael Trimble and Professor
Matthew Walker. I would also like to thank Dr James
Thomas for the many hours of discussion, feedback and
encouragement, particularly during the earlier stages of
the project.
I am grateful to numerous individuals at Elsevier who
have helped in various ways to bring this project to fruition,
including Jeremy Bowes, Fiona Conn, Uma Natarajan and
Andrew Riley. I would particularly like to thank Timothy
Horne, who gave me the opportunity to write the book in
the first place – and Graeme Chambers, who has managed
to convert my many pages of hand-drawn pictures and
scribbled explanatory notes into a superb collection of
illustrations and diagrams.
Finally, I would like to thank Gemma (whose brain features
in Figs 3.6c and A.5-7!), not only for helping me in many
different ways with the book, but also for continuing to put
up with all of my many faults – and most of all, for agreeing
to be my wife.
Paul Johns
London, 2014