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| By: Hal Blumenfeld ISBN: 0878930604 Publisher: Sinauer Associates Release Date: 15 January, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 5287 | I've read (or attempted to read) many neuroanatomy books. I've tried pocket guides, ridiculously simple books, terribly boring textbooks, etc. NONE come close to this book.
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<br />You are introduced to a specific section of anatomy with EXCELLENT illustrations and explanations, and then immediately following, you are given a series of clinical cases. The cases are quite simply, stunning. Patient presentation, what clues from history and physical are IMPORTANT, and then correct diagnosis with treatment. Each case is packed with CLINICAL INFORMATION and CT's/MRI's for your review.
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<br />I loved the section on weakness. Illustrated and explained like I've never seen before. How to narrow down where the lesion can be found, why some areas are ruled out, common causes for the lesion, and a CLEAR ILLUSTRATION reinforcing the text. Brilliant.
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<br />This is easily the best neuroanatomy text and more than that, it's the best introduction to clinical NEUROLOGY.
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<br />If you are taking neuroanatomy, use this instead of your stupid text. Your peers will be amazed at your grasp of the info they are struggling with. If you are an intern before neuro residency, read this during your intern year. If you are a neuro resident, use this for reinforcing the underlying anatomy for the path you've seen during the day.
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<br />Thank you for writing this text. My only regret is that I found it after wasting so much time with other books! As a student studying clinical neuropsychology, I find myself frequently referring to this book for anatomy references. The pages are colorful, the text is robust, and it is easy to read. The clinical cases are also useful and stimulate thought. Well done. I love this book because it takes figures from some of the best atlases, like Neuroanatomy and Atlas and Text, which I also own. The book, however, takes a significant time commentment, but well worth it to develop a solid understanding of neuroanatomy and neurology. | |
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| By: Stephen Goldberg ISBN: 0940780577 Publisher: Medmaster Release Date: 01 January, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 4522 | This book really did make the lecture material SUPER manageable. I agree with other raters' comments: this book is not going to teach it all and is not something to just sit and read, BUT used in conjunction with a course, it may be the only supplement you need (it was for most of my class). It is full of hints on memorization and logic and is a must have. I am getting ready to start my neuro rotation and it is going to be reviewed before-hand and will come with me. A crucial tool for any clinician trying to understand the central nervous system. Simple, but not simplistic. This is not the first book you should turn to if you're just starting neuroanatomy. However, after learning the material, this book helped consolidate everything in a helpful way so I could visualize everything in my head. Otherwise, my brain would have just been full of random facts that didn't connect very well, which makes it harder to memorize too. His diagrams are simple, but exactly what you want to explain the concept. He gives you tons of fun stories to memorize material as well. I also liked the clinical questions at the end of each section to test if I understood what I learned. I am completely amazed that the main points are all summarized so well in this tiny little book. He even has a CD to help you further, which I found to be excellent as well. I can't say enough about how helpful this book is. I highly recommend it for a med student to go along with your normal neuroanatomy texts. | |
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| By: James D Fix ISBN: 0781758998 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 December, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 8879 | The USMLE has become increasingly focused on neuro over the past few years, and First Aid has become more and more inadequate with respect to neuro. This book is a great way to prepare for the neuro questions on Step 1. It's a slender book and is thus a very quick read --- heck, I'm a slow reader and finished it in 2.5 days. At the beginning of the book are several images of brain sections, with arrows pointing to the most important structures. The book also has radiologic images (MRA, MRI, CT) which were very helpful for me when I took Step 1 --- actually, I remember having 3 distinct questions with an accompanying MRA image. The book does a good job of explaining the basic function/organization of the different parts of the brain in a concise manner. There were a few sections that I thought were a little too detailed for Step 1 --- especially the cerebellum section. Overall, though, it's a wonderful book and it will help you to nail the neuro questions on the USMLE. Very good review book for Step 1 neuroanatomy section - since this is very high yield. Cover all you need to know to tackle this field on exam. Covers more than FA but is not as exhausting as Kaplan notes. Getting confused with studying anatomy of the brain? This is a book for you! It is far better than dozen of other neuroanatomy books! It gives you a lot of details and it's easy to read, too! I'm studying for the USMLE step 1 exam and I will keep it handy all the time! | |
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| By: Duane E Haines ISBN: 0781763282 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 June, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 6429 | Haines Atlas has some strong points and some weak points. If the option was given, I would have given it 3.5 stars because it probably is above the average when it comes to atlases and I have not used a different atlas to compare it to.
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<br />Strong points:
<br />-The real images are great (CTs and MRIs).
<br />-Cross sections and coronal sections are also well done.
<br />-USMLE style questions at the end of the book are great for medical students (such as myself) and helped me do very will on the NBME Neuroscience shelf exam.
<br />- Online version is a great tool
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<br />Weak points:
<br />- As a text, this atlas is VERY confusing.
<br />- Although the diagrams are decent, the color scheme is not explained very well and they use a lot of abbreviations that aren't intuitive, constantly need to be checked, and often times differ from one diagram to the other
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<br />This atlas would be best used with a different textbook (I personally recommend Basic Clinical Neuroscience by Young, Young, and Tolbert).
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<br />Also, if you are a medical student, combine the two books above with the Pre-test for Neurosciences by Allan Siegel for review of NBME shelf exam and USMLE step 1 exam. This book helped me out so much in my neurobiology class. I would definitely suggest it as a great reference for anyone taking an upper level neuro class who needs great pictures and drawings of the "tracts." This is a great book if you already have had teaching and review in neuroscience (usually 1st year of medical school). Use this book only for review and ongoing learning. If you don't have a basis in neuroscience, this text is a little thin on basic information | |
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| By: James D Fix ISBN: 0781772451 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 October, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 17459 | If you enjoy details and endless amounts of info, then this book is for you. It is also a good reference during neuro courses. If you're a medical student taking Neuro, get this book ASAP! At first, I thought it wouldn't be useful because it is so lengthy (400+ pages) compared to the other books in the series. However, it turned out to be an absolute lifesaver while I was taking the course. The neuroanatomy course at my school was very unorganized and poorly taught and our required textbook was way too verbose to be helpful. This book is very well organized and very thorough for a review book- you really don't even need a textbook, just a neuroanatomy atlas. Rather than getting bogged down in trivial minutiae, this book presents all the basics you need to know to pass neuro. It also has hundreds of review questions to test your knowledge as you go. I couldn't possibly have organized my study of neuroanatomy without this book- and thanks to Dr. Fix, I actually managed an A in Neuro!<br>The only disadvantage is that, due to its length, it's probably overkill for board review. I'd suggest purchasing High Yield Neuroanatomy by the same author for a quick-and-dirty review before the boards, then testing yourself via the questions in this book. Better than his lectures, you get the answers to many of the boards neuro questions. A quick, yet jam-packed review. Pay attention to the diagrams...they pay off in points on the USMLE. | |
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| By: John H. Martin ISBN: 007138183X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical Release Date: 27 March, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 219633 | everyone i spoke to says that neuro is one of those classes you have to teach yourself- couldn't have been more true at my school. this book saved me. it clearly presents the topics in as simple a way as possible, and has great summaries. First functional then regional anatomy, not a bad idea. Makes u hard to forget, good "real" diagrams. I really enjoyed the book and it was in great condition when it arrived | |
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| By: Michael Schuenke, Erik Schulte, Udo Schumacher, Lawrence Ross, Edward Lamperti, Markus M. Voll, Karl H. Wesker ISBN: 1588904415 Publisher: Thieme Medical Publishers Release Date: 12 March, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 210571 | I have taught human gross anatomy to medical students for 3 years now. Netters is a good atlas but the Thieme atlas of anatomy series is the best I have come across. The figures focus well on specific areas of the body and give a much more information rather than just structure. It is not a replacement for an anatomy textbook such as Moore's but is an essential supplement.
<br /> This Thieme series has opened a new era! By far, this is the best atlas series available and as a medical student, I would recommend the three atlases to anyone who studies in the field of anatomy. Trust me, this is THE book you keep for life! <br /> <br /> I just love the amazing pictures in this book. Although it is an atlas is also has some really interesting written details that you don't often get in the other atlases. I would recommend all the Thieme Atlases of Anatomy, they are truly worthwhile books to have | |
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| By: Sid Gilman, Sarah Winans Newman, John Tinkham Manter, Arthur John Gatz ISBN: 0803607725 Publisher: F. A. Davis Company Release Date: 15 July, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 14720 | I picked up this book as a recommendation and was pleased with that fact that its easy to understand. Its no Harry Potter but it really simplifies Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology. In many US medical schools, the didactic years are marked by an institution known as the Note Pool. Inasmuch as the prevailing motto is "Cooperate and Graduate," classes of medical students will join forces to systematically attack the task of assimilating the vast amount of factual information under which they're routinely buried. Because almost all lectures are taken in common (i.e., the first two years of med school jam everybody into the same classroom), it's possible for everyone to make use of the same notes. <p>Enter the Note Pool. Like the doctors they'll become, medical students approach their work with different aptitudes, interests, and educational backgrounds -- and they *specialize*. If there are five lectures in biochemistry every week, the average class of med students is bound to have at least five members with a background (often at postgraduate level) in biochemistry, and there will be a volunteer for each lecture who will accept responsibility for concentrating attention on a particular day's presentation, bashing the material into cogency, and submitting it for photocopying and distribution to the entire class. <p>Back in the days when we ran off our notes on a mimeograph machine, I was a sort of "utility infielder" for our Note Pool, filling in when people couldn't make it to class, handling the extra lectures that got shuffled into our schedules, and generally shouldering the extra work that came along. (Needless to say, I became a general practitioner.) Neuroanatomy was one of those one-trimester courses that "came along." I got stuck with both of the weekly lectures, and that leads us to a discussion of *Manter and Gatz's Essentials of Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology*. <p>Bearing a double burden of lectures to cover (while also running the Note Pool's mimeograph machine), I had desperate need of a "cheat sheet" to help me get at the essentials of this subject, and I found it in a much earlier edition of this book. Lucid, economically written, and perpetually on-point, *Manter and Gatz* enabled me not only to educate myself in the essentials of human neuroanatomy but also to put the material in order for the rest of my med school class. The present edition (reviewed here) is BETTER than the book that saved our collective butt back in the days before Mangled Care, and I would recommend it not only to medical students and the FMGs striving to break into the bleak present practice environment but also to medical writers in need of an inexpensive, reliable, and accessible source of information on this extremely important subject. <p>As the present electoral hoo-haw amply demonstrates, the vast majority of the population certainly doesn't make any effective *USE* of what they're carrying between their ears. This notwithstanding, the silly boogers do have central nervous systems, and it behooves those of us responsible for the medical care of these damned fools to know how those neurons and their supporting structures are organized. *Manter and Gatz* provides that much and more. ...The present edition (reviewed here) is BETTER than the book that saved our collective butt back in the days before Mangled Care, and I would recommend it not only to medical students and the FMGs striving to break into the bleak present practice environment but also to medical writers in need of an inexpensive, reliable, and accessible source of information on this extremely important subject...*Manter and Gatz* provides that much and more. | |
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| By: Jeffrey T. Joseph, David L. Cardozo ISBN: 0471444375 Publisher: Wiley-Liss Release Date: 04 February, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 344564 | My Professor Dr. Cardozo wrote this book, and Dr. Cardozo is a really funny and awesome guy. You can definitely hear his voice when you read the book, which is written in a very humorous and amusing way. It just flows, like a conversation! While it is fun to read, some of the concepts are not well illustrated in the book with appropriate diagrams or pictures. Especially not in black and white!!! I definitely took advtange of my lab instructor and lab sessions to better understand the images in the book, which fortunately we had available in color online. In summary, I would get it for a lab class where you will have the support to turn to. | |
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| By: Michael Rubin, Joseph E. Safdieh ISBN: 1933247223 Publisher: Saunders Release Date: 23 February, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 84529 | I have found Netter's Concise Neuroanatomy to be incredibly helpful in my Neuroanatomy of Speech and Hearing Mechanisms class. I consider myself to be an auditory visual learner. This is the best supplement to notes and lecture. For individuals who need to see the connection of arteries,CN innervation or any other aspect of neuroanatomy, Netter's guide is functional and highly informative. | |
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