This new title in the best-selling Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews series presents essential coverage of neuroscience, focusing on topics related to human health and disease. Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Neuroscience includes the popular features of the series: abundance of full-color, annotated illustrations chapter overviews expanded outline format chapter summaries and review questions that link basic science to real-life clinical situations. The book can be used as a text for a stand-alone neuroscience/neuroanatomy course in medical, health professions, and upper-level undergraduate programs or as a review for boards. A companion website features the fully searchable online text, an interactive Question Bank for students, animations, and an Image Bank for instructors to use to create PowerPoint presentations.
Salient Features * Enables rapid review and assimilation of large amounts of complex information through signature outline format * Includes online ancillaries such as the Faculty Image Bank For Students: online text, animations, and USMLE Question Bank * Distills core concepts through chapter-opening overviews and end-of-chapter summaries * Prepares students for the course and national exams with clinical vignettes and board-style review questions in each chapter * Follows the standard approach and expanded outline format of the Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews series * Visually explains concepts with full-color, annotated illustrations and color-coded tables * Highlights key words in boldface, while introducing new vocabulary and defining abbreviations
Table of Contents * Chapter 1: Introduction to the Nervous System and Basic Neurophysiology * Chapter 2: Overview the Central Nervous System * Chapter 3: Overview of the Peripheral Nervous System * Chapter 4: The Visceral Nervous System * Chapter 5: The Spinal Cord * Chapter 6: Overview and Organization of the Brainstem * Chapter 7: Overview of Ascending Sensory Tracts * Chapter 8: Overview of Descending Motor Tracts * Chapter 9: Control of Eye Movements * Chapter 10: Sensory and Motor Innervation of the Head and Neck * Chapter 11: Hearing and Balance * Chapter 12: Brainstem Systems and Review * Chapter 13: The Cerebral Cortex * Chapter 14: The Thalamus * Chapter 15: The Visual System * Chapter 16: Control of Movement: The Basal Ganglia * Chapter 17: Control of Movement: The Cerebellum * Chapter 18: The Integration of Motor Control * Chapter 19: Overview of the Hypothalamus * Chapter 20: Overview of the Limbic System * Chapter 21: Olfactory and Gustatory Systems * Chapter 22: Pain
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