Salient Features * Presents a comprehensive yet lucid and friendly coverage of neuroanatomy * Explains the concepts in a simple and easy-to-understand language * Presents numerous well-labelled and easy-to-reproduce diagrams to illustrate the concepts * Highlights the clinical aspects of neuroanatomy * Also includes a chapter on imaging with the relevant X-rays, CT scans and MRIs * Enables quick and thorough subject review through Key notes within the chapters Relevant tables and flowcharts Chapter-end summaries Multiple choice questions (MCQs) with answers An Ideal text for medical for medical as well as physiotherapy students
Table Of Contents * Introduction to the Nervous System * Nervous Tissue * Peripheral Nerves * Synapses and Neurotransmitters * Sensory Receptors and Neuromuscular Junction * Overview of the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems * Spinal Cord * Spinal Nerves * Ascending and Descending Tracts of the Spinal Cord * Brainstem: Medulla Oblongata * Brainstem: Pons * Brainstem: Midbrain * Cerebellum * Reticular Formation * Cranial Nerves: Nuclei and Functional Aspects * Diencephalon-I: Thalamus, Metathalamus and Epithalamus * Diencephalon-II: Subthalamus and Hypothalamus * Cerebral Hemispheres * Histology of Cerebrum * Functional Areas of Cerebral Cortex * White Matter of Cerebrum * Basal Nuclei * Olfactory System * Limbic System * Visual System * Auditory and Vestibular Systems * Autonomic Nervous System * Sympathetic Ganglia and Autonomic Nerve Plexuses * Autonomic Innervation of Important Organs * Ventricles of the Brain * Meninges and Cerebrospinal Fluid * Blood Supply of the Brain and Spinal Cord * Imaging of the Central Nervous System * Development of the Nervous System