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Basic neuroanatomy /

This book is intended for students of medicine, dentistry and allied health professions. The continual, unremitting explosion of information in the biomedical fields in recent years has rendered the curriculum ever more compact and onerous in the various disciplines of studies required of the studen...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yew, D. T. W. (David T. W.)
Otros Autores: Kwong, W. H., Yu, M. C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction. 1.1. The nature of the study of neuroanatomy. 1.2. Students' common problems. 1.3. Some tips for study. 1.4. The basic subdivisions of the brain. 1.5. Interaction of the systems
  • ch. 2. Spinal cord. 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. Comparison of spinal segments and vertebral bodies. 2.3. Meninges. 2.4. General arrangement. 2.5. Different levels of the spinal cord. 2.6. Rexed's laminae. 2.7. Nuclei in gray matter. 2.8. Tracts in white matter. 2.9. Reflexes. 2.10. Dermatomes and myotomes. 2.11. Representative lesions of the spinal cord
  • ch. 3. Brainstem and reticular formation. 3.1. Brainstem. 3.2. External morphology. 3.3. Internal morphology. 3.4. The basics
  • ch. 4. Diencephalon. 4.1. Physical make-up. 4.2. Thalamus. 4.3. Hypothalamus. 4.4. Subthalamus. 4.5. Epithalamus. 4.6. Metathalamus
  • ch. 5. Cerebral cortex. 5.1. General remarks. 5.2. Motor and sensory areas. 5.3. Parietal area. 5.4. Other areas. 5.5. Cytoarchitecture of the cortex. 5.6. The intrinsic circuitry of neurons of the cortex
  • ch. 6. Cerebellum. 6.1. External morphology. 6.2. Internal structure. 6.3. Connections. 6.4. Laterality of cerebellar projections. 6.5. Functions. 6.6. Cerebellar disorders
  • ch. 7. Basal ganglia. 7.1. Terminology. 7.2. Anatomical relationships. 7.3. Connections. 7.4. Closed loops of the basal ganglia. 7.5. Basal ganglia disorders ("extrapyramidal diseases")
  • ch. 8. Limbic system. 8.1. Introduction. 8.2. Terminology. 8.3. Anatomical relations. 8.4. Components of the limbic system
  • ch. 9. General sensory system. 9.1. Sensory pathways. 9.2. Proprioception and stereognosis. 9.3. Pain and temperature. 9.4. Trigeminal alternating analgesia. 9.5. Simple touch
  • ch. 10. Specific sensory systems. 10.1. Vision. 10.2. Visual pathway. 10.3. Auditory and vestibular systems. 10.4. Olfaction
  • ch. 11. Motor system. 11.1. Components of the motor system. 11.2. Lower motor neurons. 11.3. Upper motor neurons. 11.4. Basal ganglia and cerebellum. 11.5. Disturbance of motor functions
  • ch. 12. Autonomic nervous system. 12.1. General properties. 12.2. Sympathetic and parasympathetic systems
  • ch. 13. Meninges and vascular supply of the central nervous system. 13.1. Meninges. 13.2. Vascular supplies of the cerebrum and cerebellum. 13.3. Vascular supplies of the brainstem. 13.4. Vascular supplies of the spinal cord. 13.5. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
  • ch. 14. Review of specific lesions of the central nervous system. 14.1. Some representative lesions of the spinal cord, brain stem and cerebral cortex.