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Human Brain and Spinal Cord: Functional Neuroanatomy and Dissection Guide

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Though a review is almost unecessary for the droves of med students trying to get a copy as a required text, Heimer is a great way to get into neuroanatomy, even for the budding biologist. The first half of the book describes dissections of a human brain in exquisite detail (multiple cuts suggested), though you'll probably have trouble finding a human brain (legally) to dissect unless you are one of the aforementioned med students. The latter half goes through the different brain systems/structures, paying attention to function tracts and anatomical correlates of behavior. Labeled MRI's are included in the new edition. Great for visualizing a 3D map of the brain, almost bettter than the real thing.

If you aren't looking for a lab manual, I would go for Afifi & Bergman's _Funtional Neuroanatomy_, which goes into greater detail concerning functional tracts, clinical examples, and more diagrams/MRI slices.

As a first year neuroscience graduate student I had to hack through Martin's neuroanatomy textbook. Not until a month before my comprehensive exam did I discover this book - my girlfriend found a copy out on the sidewalk, left behind by a departing medical student probably - filled with hasty underlines and unintelligible scribbles in bic pen. But, it was a godsend. The quality of this text is immediately apparent to anyone who has tried to learn from it. If you begin from ignorance, use this book! If you already know everything go ahead and show off to yourself that you can understand Martin or for that matter a straight atlas of brain sections with no text at all! But for those who need concepts, themes, integrative explanations, this books is by far the best thing available.

The basic idea of this book is to provide a rudimentary brain atlas of real photographs with annotations, and then to go through each functional system separately and with schematic figures. The book is bound in waterproof material and even the pages are tough enough to withstand being dragged around, dripped on with coffee or with formaldehyde, etc.

I am not kidding, people, this book is supreme for its kind. We should thank Lennart Heimer for turning neuroanatomy from an arcane, incoherent list of latin names, into a simple, coherent, and fascinating course of study.

Wes Wallace
Department of Neuroscience
Brown University
Providence, RI (USA)

Great explanation of the human brain anatomy. Easy to use and understand both for students as well as for medical professionals who need a quick reference.

We were instructed to buy our own brain dissection manuals, whichever one was affordable. This just happened to be the one that goes along with the video we are following to dissect. There is more information than a lot of the others, and the diagrams are great.