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Neuroanatomy: Text and Atlas

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This is one of several books I bought while in med school studying neuroscience. This is a beautiful text, with wonderful drawings, good use of catscans and MRIs, and an excellent layout. It helped me considerably to learn the anatomy of the spinal cord and brain. Since I am deaf and they couldn't deal with it in a classroom (looking down at microscopes does not make lipreading easy or help my interpreters)...they sent me to the morgue with medical students and nursing students. This book provided the background I needed to do well in this situation, because the drawings were explicit enough to be recognizeable when presented with the real thing. I also use this book with deaf students who I hope to encourage to go into science. The drawings always get them interested enough to ask questions, and that is what good science is about. Karen Sadler, Science Education, University of Pittsburgh

John H., Phd Martin constructed a well-rounded neuroanatomical textbook. The material covers every anatomical aspect of the n.s. including chapters on embryonic development and vascular anatomy. The text is continuously tied in with detailed images (ct, mri, & myelin stained slices of c.n.s.). The reading material is exceptionaly easy for its class. The book gets very detailed, and will make you a leading source on neuroanatomy. Author comment: "Even though this book came out a few years back in '96, the material today is still very similar and they do not get any user-friendlier."

The text of this book is quite easy to read, as medical textbooks go, and the figures in this book are excellent and easy to follow. A wonderful feature of this book is the double-page organization of the atlas portion showing brain sections. For each section, the left-hand page is an unmarked full-page photograph of the section, and the right-hand page is the same photograph with labels and borders drawn around the structures. This is much more helpful than the traditional approach that simply has a line pointing to a structure, for this approach shows the size, shape, and limits of the structure as well as its location. The unmarked photographs allow you to test yourself. I highly recommend this book for Neuroanatomy students.

I like this text a lot. It has been useful for my neuroanatomy courses in chiropractic school. My background is chemical engineering - not biology - and this text is well written and makes a great companion for both neuro lecture and neuro lab.

everyone i spoke to says that neuro is one of those classes you have to teach yourself- couldn't have been more true at my school. this book saved me. it clearly presents the topics in as simple a way as possible, and has great summaries.

The book is exactly what I needed, and is actually pretty well written and laid out. That being said, while I don't mind learning lots of things and I like knowing everything I can, I hate trying to memorize anatomy. I guess that's more of a class gripe than a book complaint, haha.

First functional then regional anatomy, not a bad idea. Makes u hard to forget, good "real" diagrams.

This was the required text for my Graduate Neuroanatomy course and I must say it is one of the best neuroanatomy text available. I reviewed two others including Neuroanatomy by Haines, and neuroanatomy through clinical cases, and the neuroanatomy by martin seems to be the most clearly written and best organized. The strengths of this book are its organization, which leads to an efficient learning strategy, and its clarity of information, particulary in the figures and diagrams. That is really what separates this text from the others, its explination of pathways is very clear and is organized in a way that allows the reader to retain much of the information covered with only one reading. The chapters are fairly streamlined giving mostly straight forward information without the clutter of other text. This text focuses mainly on pathways, as a neuroanatomy text should, and is oriented mainly for the clinical sciences. The only short comings of this text are a few typos in some of the figures, which are obvious and should not confuse the reader if they are referring to the text as well. The text is fairly comprehensive and serves as a good primer to neuroanatomy, but readers should remember that this is a textbook, and so it is not designed to contain vast amounts of detail over every region. But for its intended purpose, to serve as a base for more advanced study, this text is probably one of the best.

received very quickly after ordering and in great condition. has very helpful pictures and is very in depth for my university 300 level neuroscience level in brain anatomy. been informed by the instructor that this is a book that is helpful all the way through grad school-- great buy, i will have this book for the rest of my life.

The book is easy to follow and understand and has simple diagrams that complement the reading.