Synopses & Reviews
This classic, succinct, well-illustrated textbook simplifies neuroscience content to focus coverage on the essentials and helps students learn important neuroanatomical facts and definitions. Descriptions and illustrations of the regional anatomy of the central nervous system are followed by accounts of the functional pathways. The level of treatment is suited to increasingly shorter neuroanatomy courses for medical and allied health students. The Ninth edition features new and improved artwork, updates in current trends and terminology, and additions/updates to the Cranial Nerves chapter and Cells of the Nervous System chapter. A companion Website offers online text, more than 450 interactive multiple-choice review questions, case studies, glossary, eponyms, abbreviations, an expanded version of selected chapters, and images from the book. NOTE: International Edition available for sales outside North America and Caribbean (
Synopsis
This classic, succinct, well-illustrated textbook simplifies neuroscience content to focus coverage on the essentials and helps students learn important neuroanatomical facts and definitions. Descriptions and illustrations of the regional anatomy of the central nervous system are followed by accounts of the functional pathways. The level of treatment is suited to increasingly shorter neuroanatomy courses for medical and allied health students.
The Ninth Edition features new and improved artwork, updates in current trends and terminology, and additions/updates to the Cranial Nerves chapter and Cells of the Nervous System chapter.
A companion Website offers online text, more than 450 interactive multiple-choice review questions, case studies, glossary, eponyms, abbreviations, an expanded version of selected chapters, and images from the book.
Synopsis
For over thirty years The Human Nervous System has offered a concise, well-written text on neuroanatomy for both medical and allied health students. This successful title is organized into four major parts: cellular aspects of the nervous system, regional anatomy of the brain and spinal cord, sensory and motor systems, and blood supply. The Eighth Edition has been simplified to enhance coverage of the essentials and help students learn important facts and definitions. A FREE CD-ROM packaged with the book contains more than 400 interactive self-testing multiple-choice review questions, as well as expanded versions of selected chapters.
Synopsis
This classic well-illustrated textbook simplifies neuroscience content to focus coverage on the essentials and helps students learn important neuroanatomical facts and definitions. Among its many distinctions are its organization by region and then pathways into and out of the nervous system, which permits students an integrated view of the anatomy and physiology; level of treatment suited to increasingly shorter neuroanatomy course hours for medical and allied health students; and the author's succinct writing style.
Table of Contents
PART I Introduction and Neurohistology
1 Development, Composition, and Evolution of the Nervous System
2 Cells of the Nervous System
3 Peripheral Nervous System
4 Imaging Techniques and Neuroanatomical Research Methods
PART II Regional Anatomy of the Central Nervous System
5 Spinal Cord
6 Brain Stem: External Anatomy
7 Brain Stem: Nuclei and Tracts
8 Cranial Nerves
9 Reticular Formation
10 Cerebellum
11 Diencephalon
12 Corpus Striatum
13 Topography of the Cerebral Hemispheres
14 Histology of the Cerebral Cortex
15 Functional Localization in the Cerebral Cortex
16 Cerebral White Matter and Lateral Ventricles
17 Olfactory System
18 Limbic System: The Hippocampus and the Amygdala
PART III Review of the Major Systems
19 General Sensory Systems
20 Visual System
21 Auditory System
22 Vestibular System
23 Motor Systems
24 Visceral Innervation
PART IV Blood Supply and the Meninges
25 Blood Supply of the Central Nervous System
26 Meninges and Cerebrospinal Fluid
Glossary of Neuroanatomical and Related Terms
Index