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Basic Clinical Neuroanatomy (Periodicals)

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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.

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 was looking for a neuroanatomy review book before studying neurology and this was my choice after reading BRS Neuroanatomy, High-Yield Neuroanatomy, and Neuroanatomy: An atlas of Structures, Sections, and Systems. I chose this book for several reasons. First, the pictures were the most clearly explained ones (the enhanced illustrations of the anatomical sections and the 3-D drawings of the nervous pathways). Second, the title of each chapter is very relevant in terms of main clinical correlation between the anatomical structure and the neurological defect(e.g. The cerebellum: Ataxia), so if you want a 2 min review of major neurological complaints/anatomical localization of the lesion, just scan the table of contents. Third, the book is full of clinical correlations inserted in the text when the relevant anatomical structure/pathway is discussed. The last chapter provides principles for locating lesions with clinical illustrations, very useful. There is a glossary and an atlas of myelin-stained sections. This edition also has two-color illustrations.

This was a required text for our neuroanatomy course, which for me was a dificult class to follow. This book helped clarify most things and was very well written to the level that a grad student could easily comprehend the material. This was pretty much what our lectures and exams were based on, and I've heard from other students that this is a great book to use as an aid for board exams.

The only drawback for me was the lack of color in the figures provided in the book. Most of the time, our professor would highlight certain parts in color in their lecture slides, or they would refer to the Netter's Anatomy text which I would highly recommend if you are more of a visual learner for gross anatomy. The more in depth detailed cranial nerves and pathways are well depicted in this book though, so I would use that to study off of.

Unlike most text books that are very wordy, this book is very clear and readable. I believe Dr. Young has been teaching at SLU med for over 55 years and it clearly shows how great of a teacher he is with this book. Highly recommended.

This book is truly one of a kind. I don't think you can learn all of neuro by simply reading this book. However it does a good job of simplifying all of the information in easy to read drawings and diagrams. The neural pathways are illustrated very well. You would still need to supplement this book with a neuroanatomy atlas. Finally, the last chapter on localizing lesions is an excellent 15 minute overview of how the CNS can be damaged, and what various lesions would cause.

The titles of the chapters themselves teach you alot. Get this book.

**UPDATE**
I don't think i stressed enough what an amazing job this book does in simplifying the neuronal pathways. For that reason alone it is really worth the purchase.

I have found this book immensely helpful in preparing for my Neurology course in med school. The chapters are well presented on a system basis with numerous, helpful illustrations and good review questions at the end of each chapter and an entire chapter at the end of the book focused on locating lesions.

For USMLE Step 1, it is a good resource for a functional approach to neurology and its concise length prevents it from being too daunting.

I found this book helpful in our neuro block. I'd never had any neuro before med school and so this was very needed. I mostly like using it to help me figure out all the pathways and it has useful clinical correlates. Is there a better book out there, I don't know, maybe but I found this worked pretty well.

I was very pleased with how quickley I recieved my book. Even though it was used, it looks new.