Essential Neuroscience [Paperback]

Allan Siegel (Author), Hreday N. Sapru (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0781791219 | ISBN-13: 978-0781791212 | Publication Date: October 24, 2007 | Edition: First, Revised

Essential Neuroscience, Revised First Edition, offers medical and health professions students a concise, clinically relevant text that gives equal weight to the branches of science represented within neuroscience: anatomy, physiology, biology, and chemistry. In this balanced treatment, it distinguishes itself from other competing textbooks.

Featuring a unique "building block" approach, Essential Neuroscience, Revised First Edition, now includes the book's fully searchable online text as well as key updates and revisions.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 01-JAN-06 -- "A concise yet comprehensive text of neuroanatomy and basic neuroscience that is appropriate for medical students, residents, and neuroscience graduate students. The illustrations are a highlight of this text. These are appropriately detailed but make simple, important points to complement the text. The color illustrations help illustrate neuroanatomic pathways and key anatomic relationships well. In addition, clinical correlations, clinical cases, and the glossary make this an excellent text for teaching beginning students in the neurosciences. Recommended for medical students, residents, neuroscience graduate students, and course directors of basic neuroanatomy and neurosciences."-Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Overall Grading: Five Stars; Outstanding)

Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; First, Revised edition (October 24, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781791219
• ISBN-13: 978-0781791212
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #826,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very comprehensive guide to Neuroscience, December 14, 2009

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EDD - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Neuroscience (Paperback)

It is a terrific book of neuroscience. Other textbooks on market are either too brief on neurophysiology or dwell too much on the field biochemistry. The best thing about this book is that it touches on every aspects of neurology comprehensively and specifically catered for medical students. The arrangement is coherent and it is easy to follow the flow of the book, which explained each part of the nervous system by its afferent and efferent connections. Diagrams are adequate and the pathway are vividly illustrated.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular overview of Neuroscience, August 12, 2009

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Clayton - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Neuroscience (Paperback)

This is a spectacular textbook. It is very well written and very easy to understand, unlike many similar texts. The first few chapters provided a very detailed and essential introduction and orientation for med school neurology, and the book as a whole proved to be a spectacular reference. I very strongly recommend this book! Also, check out the Netter's neurology flash cards. The cards are flimsy and cheap, and the info gets way too detailed at times, but the info on the back of the cards reinforces a number of very important concepts in a very concise manner.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Introduction to Neuroscience, August 15, 2011

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E. J. Siagian (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential Neuroscience (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)) (Paperback)

The book does cover the essential basics of neuroscience. It is not, however, detailed or in-depth, as some other reviewers would have you believe. This book would serve well as an introduction to neuroscience for an undergraduate course, or if one needs a brief review of neurophysiology/neuroanatomy.