A Textbook of Neuroanatomy

• Publisher:   Wiley-Blackwell
• Number Of Pages:   464
• Publication Date:   2006-05-22
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   140510340X
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9781405103404

This complete, yet concise text is designed to help students easily master the anatomy and basic physiology of the nervous system. Accessible and clear, the text highlights interrelationships between systems, structures, and the rest of the body as it moves through various regions of the brain. A comprehensive chapter on embryology furthers this end, showing students the major themes in the configuration of human anatomy. The organization navigates the student through the many details involved in neuroanatomy. The first nine chapters introduce the main principles and terms that play a role in neuroanatomy, and the remaining chapters then use this information to describe the anatomy and function of the various pathways and discrete systems.

The text emphasizes the clinical relevance of the material through clinical cases, questions, and follow-up discussions in each chapter, motivating students to learn the information. Clinical considerations in each chapter indicate medical conditions relevant to the chapter topics. In addition, synonym/eponym tables in most chapters organize the many different terms for the same vocabulary word, and summary tables assist students in learning and memorizing. An accompanying website includes the illustrations, along with animations of key processes.

Are you studying at the graduate and undergraduate level in the area of human neuroanatomy? If you are, this book is for you! Authors Leslie P. Gartner, Maria Patestas and M. A. Petestas, have written an outstanding book that is accessible and clear-- one that students would not have to wade through in order to discern key information of human neuroanatomy. Gartner, Patestas and Petestas, begin with an introduction to the nervous system. Then, they include a description of early embryology, the development of the pharyngeal arches, formation of the face, and some of the molecular events that appear to govern this entire process. The authors continue by presenting the morphology and physiology of electrical and chemical synapses. In addition, they also discuss the most common and significant of the neurotransmitter substances. The authors also discuss the brain's basic morphology and architecture. Then, the authors cover the vascular supply of the spinal cord. Finally, they describe the sensory receptors and the ascending sensory pathways from the body. This most excellent book is designed to help students easily master the anatomy and basic physiology of the nervous system. More importantly, this book emphasizes the clinical relevance of the material through clinical cases, questions, and follow-up discussions in each chapter, thus motivating students to learn the information.

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