It is truer in neurology than in any other system of medicine that a firm knowledge of basic science material, that is, the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the nervous system, enables one to readily arrive at the diagnosis of where the disease process is located and to apply their knowledge at solving problems in clinical situations. The purpose of this textbook is to enable a neuroscientist to discuss the structure and functions of the brain at a level appropriate for students at many levels of study including undergraduate, graduate, dental, or medical school level. The authors have a long experience in teaching neuroscience courses at the first- or second-year level to medical and dental students and to residents in which clinical information and clinical problem-solving are integral to the course. The authors reach this object by integrating basic sciences with neurological clinical cases containing MRI, CT or fMRI images.
Part I-Central nervous system.- Chapter
1. Introduction to the Anatomy
and the Functional Localization within the Central Nervous System.
Chapter
2. Neurocytology: Cells of the CNS.
Chapter
3. Neuroembryology and
Congenital Malformations.
Chapter
4. Spinal Cord.
Chapter
5. Brain Stem:
Gross Anatomy.
Chapter
6. Brain Stem Functional Localization.
Chapter
7.
The Cranial Nerves.
Chapter
8. Diencephalon .
Chapter
9. Hypothalamus,
Neuroendocrine System, and Autonomic Nervous System.
Chapter
10. Cerebral
Cortex Functional Localization.- Part II - Systems.- Chapter
11. Motor
System, Movement, and Motor Pathways.
Chapter
12. Motor System II: Basal
Ganglia.
Chapter
13. Motor Systems III: The Cerebellum Movement and Major
Fiber Pathways of the Cerebellum.
Chapter
14. Somatosensory Functions and
the Parietal Lobe.
Chapter
15. Visual System and Occipital Lobe.
Chapter
16. The Limbic System - Temporal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex, and Learning,
Memory and Emotions.
Chapter
17. Higher Cortical Functions.- Part III - The
Non-Nervous Elements.- Chapter
18. NON-NERVOUS ELEMENTS IN THE CENTRAL
NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Chapter
19. Trauma, Neoplasms, and Communicable
Diseases.- Part IV - NEUROPATHOLOGY.- Chapter
20. TEACHING CASES.
Chapter
21. Movies on the Brain.- Part V - Atlas of the Brain.- Chapter
22. MRI & DTI
Images.
Chapter
23. Descriptive Atlas of Stained Brain Sections.
Chapter
24. Myelin-Stained.
Dr. Jacobson has taught neuroanatomy and gross anatomy for many years to medical and dental students at Tufts University School of Medicine, and an upper level biology course on the Central Nervous System to undergraduates at Tufts University in Medford, MA utilizing many of Dr. Marcus cases to engage the students. He also has used several movies on the brain developed in Hollywood to further involve the students. Dr. Pugsley is a senior neurosurgeon with extensive clinical and teaching experience. He trained in Neurosurgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. He observed that the inclusion of case history materials reinforces the basic science subject matter learned by markedly increasing the interest of the students in both basic and clinical science material. He has added many new cases and a neurosurgeons prospective to disease.
Dr. Elliott M. Marcus, M.D. was the father of neurosciences at the Tufts University School of Medicine.With his passing in 2011, we lost a dear friend, colleague, dynamic teacher, and an outstanding neurologist. We are using in this book many of the cases he developed to teach problem solving skills to medical students, dental students, and residents in neurology and medicine as they address disease in the CNS.
