Neuroanatomy E-Book: An Illustrated Colour TextThis is a short highly illustrated textbook of neuroanatomy that throughout makes clear the relevance of the anatomy to clinical neurology. It avoids overburdening the reader with topographical detail that is unnecessary for the medical student. Minimum assumptions are made of existing knowledge of the subject. |
Contents
1 Introduction and overview | 1 |
2 Cells of the nervous system | 32 |
3 Peripheral nervous system | 36 |
4 Autonomic nervous system | 46 |
5 Coverings of the central nervous system | 50 |
6 Ventricular system | 56 |
7 Vasculature of the central nervous system | 61 |
8 Spinal cord | 69 |
12 Thalamus | 124 |
13 Cerebral hemisphere and cerebral cortex | 131 |
14 Basal ganglia | 146 |
15 Visual system | 155 |
16 Hypothalamus limbic system and olfactory system | 160 |
17 Problemsolving | 171 |
Glossary | 179 |
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Common terms and phrases
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