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Essential Neuroscience

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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.

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.

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.

I'm a UCSF Dental student. We're going through our Neurology II block currently and all the professors that teach Neuro highly recommended buying the book (what student buys books these days when they're all on PDF...). They said things like "oh its so good and concise and easy to read and has all the necessary information and you'll be using it forever..." Not the case

If you already know your Neuro decently well (which I thankfully do), this book is great as it definitely refreshes your memory quick and builds upon what you know. It does a good job at giving you the bigger picture. If you're a beginner to the world of Neuro, I urge you to stay away from this book as it is very much written in the language of Neurology rather than in a way to teach a beginner.

For what we're using it for, its in complete excess. That being said, it will be a book I keep on my very VERY small shelf of books. The information inside is not stuff that can be easily and accurately found on the internet (or wiki). If I need to look something up such as a condition or a mechanism, its excellent. It may even spark my interest to learn more about certain topics.

Bottom line:
this is not a very good 'teaching' book as it is a very dense read and heavily based in the language of Neurology. its a book for those that already know general Neurology. Highly informative and well written. A VERY good reference book as it DEFINITELY contains "Essential Neuroscience" knowledge that any MD/DDS/OMFS should have an idea about.

This is a great Neuro book. Easy to read with lots of pictures and diagrams. Straight to the point. I recommend the Atlas that accompanies this text.

This is required for our M1 neuroscience class, & it's very helpful, esp the pictures.

It has just the essential, it seems worried about the USMLE only, not about the advances in the area.

This book has been wonderful for my graduate studies. The pictures and words are clearly written to understand the neurology aspect of science.

Dear LWW,
Your e-book website sucks. Please join the 21st century and sell through Kindle or Nook.

Sincerely,
Owner of 12 of your books

(Sent from my awesome android tablet that I can't use to read the $800 in books you've sold me)