Advance praise: "Hanna Damasio has produced a neuroanatomical atlas utilizing her vast experience and knowledge to interpret precisely both cortical and subcortical structures. This monumental work provides exact locations of various sulci and gyri in different orientations within the coronal and the axial planes.... The author has devoted a significant portion of her discussion to detailing the variability of structures observed in computerized images. This outstanding work... will be a mainstay for all neuroimaging facilities and a guidepost for all involved in in vivo imaging of neural structures. Hanna Damasio must be congratulated for providing the most painstaking and thorough as well as sophisticated and timely computerized images depicting human brain anatomy." --Deepak N. Pandya, M.D., Professor of Anatomy and Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine
"Few advances in medicine have been more spectacular than three-dimensional imaging of the brain. [This atlas] provides a clear, logical, and compelling guide through the bewildering variation of brain sections, techniques, and individual brain shapes. The display of the brain sections and three-dimensional reconstructions profit from Dr. Damasio's visualizing powers as a sculptor. This three-dimensional atlas proves Dr. Damasio to be the outstanding topographer of the brain." --Vladimir Hachinski, M.D., FRCP(C), D.Sc. (Med), Richard and Beryl Ivey Professor and Chair, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario
"Brain imaging by computerized tomographic techniques is playing and increasingly important role in the practice of clinicians and in the analyses of investigators. These new neuroimaging techniques permit clinician and researcher to study in vivo neuroanatomy. Dr. Hanna Damasio has developed a technique called "brain vox". This technique generates three-dimensional reconstructions of the brain. These reconstructions present the clinician and investigator with such fine detail that they can now identify all the major landmarks with the same degree of precision that previously could only be done on post-mortem examination. This book, therefore, will be extremely valuable to both clinicians and researchers." --Kenneth M. Heilman, M.D., The James E. Rooks, Jr. Professor of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine
"Accompanied by a clear, direct and readily understandable descriptive text, the volume first accurately depicts and identifies the sulci, gyri, lobes, sublobes and subcortical structures of the telencephalon and cerebellum. It next illustrates the large variations in gross morphology expressed bynormal brains. The anatomic story is then completed by clearly illustrating and labeling the geography of classically located brain infarcts affecting the anatomic distributions of the brain's major arteries....Human Brain Anatomy undoubtedly will become indispensable to neurologists at every level of their career as well as general radiologists and all students of human neurobiology whether their background be medicine, psychology or fundamental neuroscience." --Fred Plum, M.D., Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience and Chairman, Department of Neurology, Cornell University Medical College
"An excellent source for interpreting cortical brain anatomy in routine and experimental neuroradiological studies....Will be very helpful for more precise neuroradiological interpretations of brain lesions in clinical practice and in the research setting. A wide spectrum of slice orientations are presented for several brains. A compendium of brain surface variations are also shown. As such this book may serve as a benchmark for interpreting functional neuroimaging studies. Neurologists, neuroradiologists, neurosurgeons, and neuroscientists will find it valuable in everyday practice. It should be purchased by medical libraries and clinicians and neuroscientists with an interest in surface brain anatomy and its variations." --Steven U. Brint, MD (Univ of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine), Doody's Journal
"Meticulously composed and annotated."--Paul Algra, MD, Radiology
"This is and excellent book and would be extremely useful in research employing brain images."--Professor David LaPorte, University of Maryland
"With her new book she has taken us yet another step into the future of clinical neurology and cognitive neuroscience by giving us a roadmap to navigate the expanding frontier of 3-D neuroimaging....Hanna Damasio's new books provides for us a convenient and smooth bridge between old and new technologies by showing us the limitations of the old, how best to compensate for these limitations, and how to use the new as it becomes available."--Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology
"Hanna Damasio has produced a neuroanatomical atlas utilizing her vast experience and knowledge to interpret precisely both cortical and subcortical structures. This monumental work provides exact locations of various sulci and gyri in different orientations within the coronal and the axial planes.... The author has devoted a significant portion of her discussion to detailing the variability of structures observed in computerized images. This outstanding work... will be a mainstay for all neuroimaging facilities and a guidepost for all involved in in vivo imaging of neural structures. Hanna Damasio must be congratulated for providing the most painstaking and thorough as well as sophisticated and timely computerized images depicting human brain anatomy." --Deepak N. Pandya, M.D., Professor of Anatomy and Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine
"This elegant atlas should be on the shelf of any clinician or researcher working with brain imaging in humans....Extremely well-organized and easy to use."--Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
Hanna Damasio, M.D., is Professor of Neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, where she also directs the Laboratory for Human Neuroanatomy and Neuroimaging, and is Adjunct Professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.
She is the internationally recognized author of numerous neuropsychological studies, and the developer of several new techniques for the investigation of normal and pathological anatomy using CT, MR, and PET.
Her previous book
Lesion Analysis in Neuropsychology, also published by Oxford, was distinguished by the 1989 award for "most outstanding book in Bio- and Medical Sciences" from the Association of American Publishers. In 1992 she and her husband, Antonio R. Damasio, shared the Pessoa Prize, the highest distinction for intellectual achievement from their native Portugal.
