MTU Cork Library Catalogue

The human brain and spinal cord : functional neuroanatomy and dissection guide /

Heimer, Lennart.

The human brain and spinal cord : functional neuroanatomy and dissection guide / Lennart Heimer. - New York : Springer Verlag, c1983. - x, 402 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Includes index.

Part I Introduction: Basic design and terminology -- Development of the nervous system -- Meninges and cerebrospinal fluid -- Part II Dissection of the brain: Introduction -- First dissection: Meninges and subarachnoid cisterns; superficial arteries; vertebral-basilar system; internal carotid system; basal surface and cranial nerves -- Second dissection: Midsagittal section; lobes, sulci and gyri -- Third dissection: White matter; blunt dissection of major fiber systems -- Fourth dissection: Ventricular system, fornix, and basal ganglia -- Fifth dissection: fourth ventricle; cerebellum; brain stem -- Sixth dissection: Atlas of the brain: frontal, sagittal and horizontal brain sections; anatomical correlation of computerized brain tomography -- Part III Functional neuroanatomy: Neurohistology and neuroanatomic techniques -- The spinal cord -- Ascending sensory pathways -- The lower motor neuron and the descending supraspinal pathways -- Basal ganglia -- Cerebellum -- Brain stem, reticular formation and monoaminergic pathways -- Cranial nerves -- Auditory system -- Visual system -- Olfactory system -- Hypothalamus and hypothalamohypophsial system -- The automatic nervous system -- Amygdaloid body, hippocampal formation and "limbic system" -- Thalamus -- Cerebral cortex -- Neuronal transmitters and modulators -- Cerebrovascular system.

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Brain--Anatomy.
Spinal cord--Anatomy.
Human dissection.
Dissection.
Central nervous system.

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