Fitzgerald’s Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience (8th Edition)

Description

Ideal for both medical students and those in non-medical courses, Fitzgerald’s Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience, 8th Edition, uses clear, understandable text and outstanding artwork to make a complex subject easily accessible. This award-winning title is known for superb illustrations and high readability, expertly integrating clinical neuroanatomy with the clinical application of neuroscience.

Key Features

• Organizes chapters by anatomical area, with integrated analyses of sensory, motor, and cognitive systems.
• Breaks complex concepts and subjects into easily digestible content with clear images and concise, straightforward explanations.
• Features explanatory illustrations drawn by the same meticulous artists who illustrated Gray’s Anatomy.
• Includes new Basic Science Panels that highlight an emerging or relevant basic science concept to expand your learning in specific content areas.
• Provides access to the Student Consult enhanced eBook, which contains tutorials for each chapter, hundreds of multiple-choice questions and answers, MRI
• images with explanatory text, and case studies.
• Contains learning helps in every chapter, including bulleted points, clinical boxes, opening summaries, and concluding core information boxes.
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Table of Contents

1. Dedication
2. Foreword
3. Preface
4. Acknowledgments
5. Clinical and Basic Science Perspectives
6. Panel of Consultants
7. Student Consultants
8. Embryology
9. Cerebral Topography
10. Midbrain, Hindbrain, Spinal Cord
11. Blood Supply of the Brain
12. Meninges
13. Neurons and Neuroglia
14. Electrical Events
15. Transmitters and Receptors
16. Peripheral Nerves
17. Innervation of Muscles and Joints
18. Innervation of Skin
19. Electrodiagnostic Examination
20. Autonomic Nervous System
21. Nerve Roots
22. Spinal Cord: Ascending Pathways
23. Spinal Cord: Descending Pathways
24. Brainstem
25. The Lowest Four Cranial Nerves
26. Vestibular Nerve
27. Cochlear Nerve
28. Trigeminal Nerve
29. Facial Nerve
30. Ocular Motor Nerves
31. Reticular Formation and the Neuromodulatory System
32. Thalamus, Epithalamus
33. Basal Ganglia
34. Cerebellum
35. Cerebral Cortex
36. Electroencephalography
37. Evoked Potentials
38. Visual Pathways
39. Hemispheric Asymmetries
40. Olfactory and Limbic Systems
41. Pituitary and Hypothalamus
42. Cerebrovascular Disease

Authors Biography

Estomih Mtui, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Anatomy in Neurology and Neuroscience, Director, Program in Anatomy and Visualization, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York,

Gregory Gruener, MD, MBA, Director, Leischner Institute for Medical Education, Leischner Professor of Medical Education, Senior Associate Dean, Stritch School of Medicine, Professor of Neurology, Associate Chair of Neurology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL

Peter Dockery, BSc, PhD, Professor of Anatomy, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland