For courses in neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and the treatment of neurological disease and injury in health care professional programs including: physical therapy and physical therapist assistant; occupational therapy and certified occupational therapist assistant; speech/language pathology, radiology, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, and physician assistant programs.
This text makes the complex and beautiful human nervous system as clear, transparent and easy to understand as possible. It gives healthcare students a solid foundation in the human nervous system’s structures, pathways, connections, and functions; and helps them apply this knowledge in treating and educating patients with neurological challenges. Clear, vivid, and concise, it avoids extraneous detail while illuminating the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system with large, uncluttered art. Patient case studies and clinical boxes bring key concepts to life; questions associated with these discussions assess students’ understanding and promote deeper insight. Organized to reflect the authors’ many years of effective neuroanatomy teaching, the text includes full chapters on crucial topics such as movement, cognition and behavior, development and aging, and healing the brain.
1. Introduction to Neuroanatomy
2. Regional Anatomy
3. Cell Structure and Function
4. Synapses
5. The Cerebral Cortex
6. The Diencephalon
7. The Brainstem and Cranial nerves
8. The Spinal Cord
9. The Peripheral Nervous System
10. The Autonomic Nervous System
11. Somatosensation
12. Special Sensory Systems
13. Movement
14. Cognition and Behavior
15. Development and Aging
16. Healing the Brain
Appendix A. Glossary
Appendix B. Answers to Patient Scenarios
Appendix C. Answers to Review Questions
Appendix D. Answers to Clinical Boxes
Index
For courses in neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and the treatment of neurological disease and injury in health care professional programs including: physical therapy and physical therapist assistant; occupational therapy and certified occupational therapist assistant; speech/language pathology, radiology, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, and physician assistant programs.
This text makes the complex and beautiful human nervous system as clear, transparent and easy to understand as possible. It gives healthcare students a solid foundation in the human nervous system’s structures, pathways, connections, and functions; and helps them apply this knowledge in treating and educating patients with neurological challenges. Clear, vivid, and concise, it avoids extraneous detail while illuminating the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system with large, uncluttered art. Patient case studies and clinical boxes bring key concepts to life; questions associated with these discussions assess students’ understanding and promote deeper insight. Organized to reflect the authors’ many years of effective neuroanatomy teaching, the text includes full chapters on crucial topics such as movement, cognition and behavior, development and aging, and healing the brain.
Hallmark Features
Accessible, visual, and easier for students to read and learn from without distraction. Created from the ground up to be more succinct, eliminate extraneous material, and illuminate neuroanatomy structures through large and uncluttered art.
Links concepts and theory to real cases and neurological pathologies. Includes many patient scenarios relating chapter content to actual patient examples, with related questions intended to assess the student’s mastery of content and ability to apply it to a patient case. Also contains many Clinical Boxes with challenge questions that assess students’ understanding of specific neurological pathologies.
Stimulates deeper student interest by presenting intriguing neurological diseases and conditions. Presents Neuropathology Boxes in every chapter, highlighting especially interesting neurological diseases and conditions.
Also helps students understand the peripheral nervous system. Contains a full chapter on the peripheral nervous system.
Makes it easier for students to review complex content. Presents summary boxes in most chapters that clearly organize complex ideas for easier and faster review.
Helps students master specialized terminology, so it never stands in the way of understanding. Presents key neuroscientific terms in every chapter, with clear and up-to-date definitions.