Product Description

Neuroanatomy is, by nature, an incredibly complex subject. Too often, overwhelmed by anatomical detail, students miss out on the functional beauty of the nervous system and its relevance to clinical practice. "Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases" resolves this dilemma, using over 100 actual clinical cases and high quality radiologic images in an interactive format to bring neuroanatomy to life. With this approach, structural details take on immediate relevance as they are being learned, and students are able to integrate knowledge of disparate functional systems, since a single lesion may affect several different neural structures and pathways.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #296506 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 951 pages

About the Author
HAL BLUMENFELD is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine.

Customer Reviews

Nice illustrations, clear writing style on the whole
This book is challenging because you need to get a decent grasp of terminology and anatomy quite quickly to make any progress. You get cases to try and diagnose the most likely causes. To do this, grasping the main essentials in this complex subject early on is vital otherwise it might be slightly ego bruising :).

At least that is what I found.

The drawings are excellent however and the chapter on the Neurological exam is very clear and practical. Very easy to learn from.

The only drawbacks to this book is the paper and binding. It's a softback and thinner paper. This makes it less practical than a hard back would be-espectially if your a student carrying this in a bag of some kind. I think it would be easily damaged.

One of the best medical books that I own
This book is one of the reasons I passed my Neuroscience class in medical school. Neuroscience is a REALLY difficult subject when you do not know how to study it, but this book clearly emphasizes major topics with great pictures. It is written really well. I feel like the author is sincerely interested, and has a good personality when he is talking about the various subjects. I'd even say that it gave me an interest to perhaps pursue this subject further in the future.

neuroanatomy sorted!
This book is not a revision guide or a crash course in neurology, but if you're a preclinical student trying to get to grips with neuroanatomy and understand its relevance to clinical neurology this text is a gem. The illustrations are impressive, with 3D sketches to put into context structures that can be hard to visualise from traditional coronal/saggital/horizontal sections. The clinical cases accompanying each chapter emphasise the important points to grasp and illustrate the relevance of the anatomy in examination and diagnosis. They're also proving very useful to revisit for finals revision, as is the accompanying website.

I'd agree with previous comments about the dubious quality of the binding of a large paperback book and would suggest that the publishers rethink this for future editions, although I haven't lost any pages yet...

Overall I couldn't recommend a better book for getting through neuroanatomy at medical school.