T. Woolsey – The Brain Atlas (2017)

Автор: T. Woolsey
Название книги: The Brain Atlas (2017)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Медицина
Страницы: 550
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

The Brain Atlas: A Visual Guide to the Human Central Nervous System integrates modern neuroscience with clinical practice and is now significantly revised and updated for a Fourth Edition. The book's five sections cover: Background Information, The Brain and Its Blood Vessels, Brain Slices, Histological Sections, and Pathways. These are depicted in over 350 high quality intricate figures making it the best available visual guide to human neuroanatomy.

Preface
The Fourth Edition of The Brain Atlas includes significant updates, additions and
modifications:
1. The illustrations of pathways use colored lines to identify different components. The
adjacent text now includes colored type to highlight relevant descriptions.
2. Images of brain developmental stages have been added to illustrate Table 1 (p. 10).
3. For a more complete description of mammalian anatomical orientation, terminology
labels – frontal and occipital – have been placed next to the human head (p. 13).
4. The section on arousal and sleep has been moved to Hypothalamus (p. 222).
5. Two new sections have been added to Hypothalamus: a) a section describing
hypothalamic centers for feeding (p. 228); b) a section describing the Circumventricular
Organs (CVO) located near the midline surrounding the third and fourth ventricles. CVOs
have no blood brain barriers and are routes by which blood contents can activate neurons
throughout the CNS. Some have secretory functions of their own, i.e., the Pineal Gland
secretes melatonin calibrating the biological clock of sleep and wakefulness (p. 230).
6. The Brain Atlas now also allows users (students, residents, researchers, faculty and
practitioners) to interact with a companion digital edition. Your personal access code can
be found in the inside front cover or, if you have purchased an e-book, in the prelim pages
by contacting customer service as directed. The digital companion includes interactive
pages showing dynamically displayed illustrations to enhance learning, such as show/hide
functionality ideal for self-test, and the ability to build up nerve pathways. Links allow the
reader to navigate the product and see more quickly how slices in one plane relate to
slices in other planes. The Brain Atlas digital companion can be downloaded to your
desktop or used online, and is also accessible with hand held and other mobile electronic
devices at any time in any location.