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Overview
Extensively rewritten and reorganized, the second edition of this renowned neuroanatomy textbook now includes MR and CT scans precisely correlated with both normal anatomy and clinical examples. The updated and expanded dissection guide, unique to this book, is now even more thoroughly integrated with the text. The second edition also features over 100 new illustrations; a new chapter on chemical neuroanatomy; greatly expanded chapters on neurohistology, neuroanatomic techniques, amygdaloid body and extended amygdala, and hippocampal formation; and a bibliography of references in neuroanatomy and related fields.
The book contains both black-and-white and color illustrations.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Robert W. Berry, PhD(Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)Description: This is the revised and updated second edition of a classic originally published in 1983. It is a concise textbook of functional neuroanatomy that is unique in including a detailed guide to brain dissection.
Purpose: The book aims to serve both as a dissection guide and as an illustrated description of functional neuroanatomy. It has been extensively revised to incorporate the dramatic increase in knowledge of the nervous system during the last decade.
Audience: A text for medical students, the book is sufficiently concise and comprehensive to be useful for residents in neurology and neurosurgery as well as their instructors.
Features: The dissection guide is a unique feature of this text and can be used to good effect even in the absence of anatomical material. The illustrations are important and appropriate and are a real plus for this text. Welcome revisions in the new edition include expanded clinical correlations for each chapter and an atlas of brain sections correlated with MR images.
Assessment: This needed update of a classic is characterized by a unique and effective organization and emphasis. Dr. Heimer writes especially clearly and concisely; he is a neuroanatomist who is not afraid to say "in front of." Although he is somewhat out of his depth in the discussion of neurotransmitters, the anatomy is superbly done. This book is a must have.
Robert W. Berry
This is the revised and updated second edition of a classic originally published in 1983. It is a concise textbook of functional neuroanatomy that is unique in including a detailed guide to brain dissection. The book aims to serve both as a dissection guide and as an illustrated description of functional neuroanatomy. It has been extensively revised to incorporate the dramatic increase in knowledge of the nervous system during the last decade. A text for medical students, the book is sufficiently concise and comprehensive to be useful for residents in neurology and neurosurgery as well as their instructors. The dissection guide is a unique feature of this text and can be used to good effect even in the absence of anatomical material. The illustrations are important and appropriate and are a real plus for this text. Welcome revisions in the new edition include expanded clinical correlations for each chapter and an atlas of brain sections correlated with MR images. This needed update of a classic is characterized by a unique and effective organization and emphasis. Dr. Heimer writes especially clearly and concisely; he is a neuroanatomist who is not afraid to say "in front of." Although he is somewhat out of his depth in the discussion of neurotransmitters, the anatomy is superbly done. This book is a must have.3 Stars from Doody