[Book Description]

This book presents the reader with a simple and direct method of learning the essentials of neuroanatomy. It illustrates the brain and spinal cord in easy-to-understand three-dimensional drawings. It allows the reader to learn the pathways and parts of the brain and spinal cord by reading about them and coloring and labeling them at the same time.


[Contents]

1. CNS: Brain and spinal cord
2. Some basic terms
3. Ascending pathways
4. Descending pathways
5. Neuron, neuroglia, and types of synapses
6. Etymological cartoon: Tigroid bodies
7. Nerve and its connective tissue sheaths
8. Inferior view of the brain
9. Medial view of right half of brain
10. Head and neck, midsagittal view
11. Interior of the skull
12. Cranial dural venous sinuses
13. Superior sagittal sinus
14. The cranial nerves
15. Interior of the skull with cranial nerve exits

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116. Sympathetic fibers to the heart and cardiac pain fibers
117. Thalamus: Internal medullary lamina
118. Thalamus: Major nuclei (Part 1)
119. Thalamus: Major nuclei (Part 2)
120. Thalamus: Reticular nucleus
121. Etymological cartoon: Somesthesia (Greek, body feeling)
122. Third ventricle and related structures
123. Some connections of the limbic system: The circuit of Papez
124. Hypothalamic control of pituitary hormones
125. Olfactory pathways
126. The cerebral cortex
127. The cerebral cortex: The localization of function
128. Etymological cartoon: Thalamus means bedroom
129. The strange case of Phineas P. Gage
130. Dostoyevsky's epilepsy