This classic well-illustrated textbook simplifies neuroscience content to focus coverage on the essentials and helps students learn important neuroanatomical facts and definitions. Among its many distinctions are its organization by region and then pathways into and out of the nervous system, which permits students an integrated view of the anatomy and physiology; level of treatment suited to increasingly shorter neuroanatomy course hours for medical and allied health students; and the author’s succinct writing style.

An important feature in the production of the Tenth Edition has been the publisher’s extensive use of external reviewers. Te book is undoubtedly improved as a result of their recommendations and comments, for which we thank them. It is a pleasure to acknowledge also the helpful advice given by present and former colleagues during the writing of this and the fve preceding editions: Drs. J. Ronald Doucette, Jonathan Hore, Kost Elisevich, Brian A. Flumerfelt, Elias B. Gammal, Alan W. Hrycyshyn, Arthur J. Hudson, Peeyush K. Lala, Peter Merrifeld, D.G. Montemurro, David M. Pelz, David Ramsay, A. Jon Stoessl, Shannon Venance, Tutis Vilis, and Chris Watling. We appreciate also the numerous insightful comments of Professor Ronan O’Rahilly (Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland), especially on matters of embryology and terminology.

New to the Edition

In this Tenth Edition, the improvement and changing of illustrations has continued, and nearly all are now colored. Te text and recommended readings have also been updated. Readers of this edition have access to the publisher’s Web site—www.lww.thepoint.com—which includes a variety of additional materials. Tese include labeled and unlabeled versions of all the illustrations for instructors, sample exam questions and clinical cases, an extended glossary, and biographical information about researchers and physicians whose names are associated with anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the nervous system.

Contents

۱ Development, Composition, and Evolution of the Nervous System
۲ Cells of the Nervous System
۳ Peripheral Nervous System
۴ Imaging Techniques and Neuroanatomical Research Methods
۵ Spinal Cord
۶ Brain Stem: External Anatomy
۷ Brain Stem: Nuclei and Tracts
۸ Cranial Nerves
۹ Reticular Formation
۱۰ Cerebellum
۱۱ Diencephalon
۱۲ Corpus Striatum
۱۳ Topography of the Cerebral Hemispheres
۱۴ Histology of the Cerebral Cortex
۱۵ Functional Localization in the Cerebral Cortex
۱۶ Cerebral White Matter and Lateral Ventricles
۱۷ Olfactory System
۱۸ Limbic System: The Hippocampus and the Amygdala
۱۹ General Sensory Systems
۲۰ Visual System
۲۱ Auditory System
۲۲ Vestibular System
۲۳ Motor Systems
۲۴ Visceral Innervation
۲۵ Blood Supply of the Central Nervous System
۲۶ Meninges and Cerebrospinal Fluid