neuroanatomy books

	Clinical Neuroanatomy (Clinical Neuroanatomy for Medical Students (Snell))
	By: Richard S Snell ISBN: 0781759935 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 July, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 47813	Comprehension of neuroanatomy and neurobiology are the most difficult tasks I had to face. The complex structures of the brain and spinal cord, their tracts and pathways are an enormous ammount of knowledge that have to be presented to a student withought the unnecessary complexity other books present. This book has really made it simpler for me and gave me the understanding I needed to excell this subject. <br />Although the embryology part wasn't enough for my course, the rest of the book was exceptional! <br />I want to thank the author for this book and for the great work he had put in it.. It is worth at least 5 stars ! <br /> The diagrams and text seem disjointed. I grew weary after having to turn several pages before finding the diagrams referred to in the text. And after all of that flipping around for the diagrams, the diagrams themselves leave lots to be desired. This title is the required text for my neuroanatomy class, so I'm keeping it, but will look into others to supplement my studies. I'm in the middle of MS-II neuro and the 5th Ed, NOT the 4th, compares favorably with the popular Blumenfled text. I like Snell better because the images are a little simpler and it is more condensed. Clinical correlations at the end of each chapter are good and the questions are great. See what you think at the library first. Enjoi
	Sidman's Neuroanatomy: A Programmed Learning Tool (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins))
	By: Douglas J Gould, Jennifer K Brueckner ISBN: 0781765684 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 November, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 136176	Unfortunately, the title doesn't live up to it's billing. The work is written not as a text, but as a review for exams, on account of which material is not presented directly, but only in response to a series of quizes. Perhaps it works well if you're in the middle of a neuroanatomy course and studying for an exam. I wasn't and returned the book.
	Neuroanatomy: 3D-Stereoscopic Atlas of the Human Brain (With CD-ROM)
	By: Martin C. Hirsch, Thomas Kramer, C. Zinecker, B. Harder, T. Hagemann, C. Krasowski, C. Schäfer, M. Turtiainen, M. Gauer ISBN: 3540659986 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 23 November, 1999 Bioscience book rank: 406925	The images in this book help present 3 dimensionally, parts of the brain described in neuroanatomy textbooks. I am glad I chose this book. you know brain is very complicate but this atlas will give you the 3dimensional view over it .I suggest every medical student should buy it. I bought this book with great expectations. The idea of turning an twisting 3D neuroanatomic pictures around on the computer to gain a better spatial understanding of the structures was the reason I bought it.<p>1) The names of the 3D structures you're actually looking at, either on the computer or in the book, are not written. Therefore you'll have to glance on the opposite page in the book all the time. It would have helped if the name of the structure fx appeared when you scrolled the mouse cursor over it.<p>2) The pictures are nice, but I miss pictures of functional pathways. Not just anatomical structures. Fx pain-pathways. This would, I guess it would make the book much more expensive.<p>3) Theres is no pictures of the spinal cord. I know it's just a small thing but then it wouldn't have taken much effort to include it. I guess. There not many pictures of the brainstem either.<p>BUT BUT BUT....The book is worth the money, and helped me understand many spatial details fx around the hypothalamus. I'm looking for a second edition....with the small improvements that makes this the perfect book for students to gain a good spatial overview of the CNS.
	Basic Clinical Neuroanatomy (Periodicals)
	By: Paul H. Young ISBN: 0683093517 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: June, 1997 Bioscience book rank: 280646	While Neuroscience, especially Neuroanatomy, can be complicated, this book does a great job of clearing up many convoluted topics. Clinical correlations help firm up key concepts and are especially helpful to medical students, such as myself. The illustrations do a great job, although an atlas would be needed for any true images (such as MRIs or CTs). The final chapter on localizing lesions is especially helpful. I have used the original syllabus by Dr. Young many years ago. This text derives from the course syllabus at Saint Louis University Medical school. This book will provide you with deep and lasting understanding of clinical neuroanatomy. Excellent source for Neuroanatomy courses and the USMLE.
	Neuroanatomy: An Illustrated Colour Text with STUDENT CONSULT Access (Illustrated Colour Text)
	By: A. R. Crossman, David Neary ISBN: 0443100365 Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Release Date: 03 January, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 128758	Although this book is British, so they don't have the exact same certification tests, etc., this book is the most amazing, concise, yet thorough treatment of medical neuro. It includes real photographs, stained sections, a few angiograms, and lots of great clinical syndrome summaries in a clear format. I wish my profs just used this for our course; their notes were terrible! This book got me through neuro. It has just enough info to explain what you need to know without going into needless details. The pictures are very clear (and in color) and there are some very good clinical examples given. Out of any of the neuro books I came across, this is the best one hands down for any medical student trying to grasp neuroanatomy. I strongly recommend this text. It is detailed enough as a PRIMARY source for test or exam review; yet every topic well-explained to make neuroanatomy much more "manageable". Plus they get great pictures too!
	Comparative Vertebrate Neuroanatomy: Evolution and Adaptation
	By: Ann B. Butler, William Hodos ISBN: 0471210056 Publisher: Wiley-Liss Release Date: 23 August, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 128685	This is one of the best textbooks in neuroscience, although some neuroscience students may have never heard of it. It covers the nervous systems of all vertebrate classes and offers a systematic treatment of all of them, from cartilaginous fishes (sharks, rays) to various mammalian orders. The nervous systems are treated not as a progression from "primitive" to "advanced", but rather as evolutionary adaptions that determine a type of perception and behavior that are optimal for the species' ecological niche. Any nervous system, including the human nervous system, cannot be understood without comparative neuroanatomy, since any new nervous system is a modification of the previous plan and carries with it the load of neural structures that have been used in past environments. This book is truly unique and is likely to remain such for decades to come. The illustrations, although black-and-white, are superb in clarity. This book deserves future editions. (In contrast, "The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates" edited by R. Nieuwenhuys and others, is a marketing disaster and can be afforded only by lawyers dabbling in neuroscience.) <br />November 2005: While attending the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, I was more than thrilled to come across the Second Edition of this book. I bought it with no hesitation. It seems the second edition is even better than the first one. This is my first impression, anyway. I may add more comments later. <br />(By the way, if you wonder what is happening in the brains of all these creatures at the Georgia Aquarium, this book will give you answers.) While the title of this reference may sound formidable, it is actually suitable for the motivated general reader, and is far clearer than typical neuroanatomy textbooks. Neuroanatomy across the vertebrate lines is considered, with explanations of underlying neuronal and neuroanatomical principles. This ambitious evolutionary approach to the vertebrate nervous system gives the student all the tools needed to proceed with the advanced (3-volume)works of Crosby, et al (paleo) and Niuwenhuys, et al(neo). The text is well organized and has only a slight amount of redundancy. Would hope the next edition would have improved and possibly colorful figures. This will become the only "one volume" classic of vertebrate comparative neuroanatomy.
	Color Atlas of Neuroscience: Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology (Thieme Flexibook)
	By: Ben Greenstein, Adam Greenstein ISBN: 0865777101 Publisher: Thieme Medical Publishers Release Date: January, 2000 Bioscience book rank: 209882	If you just look through the list of topics, you would appreciate how much material has been condensed into this small-sized volume. It is comprehensive in scope. Each topic is complemented by a beautifully designed color-plate--193 in all. It takes much hard work to work through the book. It is best used as an aid to many fuller texts or for review. I hope the material can be developed into a video series like The Universe Within: the Human Genome, or a 3-D CD-rom. Then it will be such a blessing to all students of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology.
	Liebman's Neuroanatomy Made Easy And Understandable
	By: S. David Gertz, Rina Tadmor ISBN: 1416401636 Publisher: Pro-Ed Release Date: 06 October, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 539644
	Neuroanatomy Primer: Color to Learn
	By: M. Evelyn McNeill ISBN: 0683300679 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 15 January, 1997 Bioscience book rank: 541761	This book was not that helpful and I recommend getting the Human Brain Coloring Book instead. I bought the book and never used it. I did use the pencils that came with the book to draw diagrams presented in class. Therefore, I spent $30 on colored pencils. The Neuroanatomy Primer : Color to Learn/With 12 Colored Pencils is a great addition to any psychology or anatomy student's library. The confusing world of neuro-networking is simplified and made into a hands-on project that keeps one's interest. I recommend using this book to supplement other texts; it allows you to not only read the information but color the areas and happenings that occur in the brain. Reading, seeing and coloring the information is a simple way to break the monotony of only reading and taking notes from a text book. The multicolored pages are then great study guides that attract your attention and are wonderful for last minute glances before a test. The extra time taken to use this book correctly saves time that would have been wasted being confused or trying to learn by only black and white text. I also have found the text to be accurate and condensed into comprehensible sections that aid further with your understanding of such a complex topic. Overall this book is a great learning tool.
	Functional Neuroanatomy, 2nd Edition (Lange Basic Science)
	By: Adel K. Afifi, Ronald A. Bergman ISBN: 0071408126 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical Release Date: 28 January, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 133903	Theres no way to learn everything about the Central Nervous System in an easier way than with this book.Its even got a separate Clinical section for every chapter!! I really enjoyed reading this book, along with Adam's Neurology(another great one). <br /> <br />The only con is that its got a couple of mistakes(maybe not serious) for example when you get to the part describing the Direct and Indirect Talamus-Striatal Pathways and a couple more. I am not a bioscience or medical type, so this text is rather out of my field. However, with that said, I have an interest in nervous system functioning and have found _Functional Neuroanatomy_ a very useful reference. It is slightly poorer as a textbook as it suffers from insufficient internal cross referencing (some exists, and a physiology book would no doubt have more). The index is reasonably complete in this regard, but relying on it can be awkward, particularly when it comes to looking up structures which have different names in different texts. I bought this book because it was dual-purpose. One, it has understandable text describing neurophysiological pathways. Two, it has a text which had cross sections of the CNS in magnetic resonance and cadaver sections. In addition, to many easy-to-follow, educational diagrams, it has brief one-line summaries of the breadth on each page. It is an excellent choice for a neurological reference text for a library.