Main description:

Ideal for any student of neuroanatomy, neuroscience, or neuroradiology, Netter's Atlas of Neuroscience, 4th Edition, is a highly visual, clinically oriented exploration of structure and function-from neurons and motor and sensory systems to global neural functions and disorders. This award-winning text approaches this complex topic from three perspectives: Integrated Neuroscience Overview, Regional Approach, and Systems Context. Illustrations by Frank H. Netter, MD, and others working in his tradition are framed by concise, expert text and accompanied by neuroimaging and photomicrographs.

Combines Netter and Netter-like illustrations, and beautiful molecular and cellular illustrations, with succinct text and clinical points, delivering the essential information students need for both basic science and clinical programs.

Presents organizational and summarized neurosciences information, enabling students to review complex concepts, functions, and systems in several contexts.

Provides an overview of the basic features of cellular and molecular neuroscience; peripheral nerves, spinal cord, brain stem and cerebellum, and the brain; reviews the neural vasculature, meninges and cerebrospinal fluid, and developmental neuroscience.

Highlights cross-sectional spinal cord and brain stem anatomy and side-by-side comparisons of Netter illustrations and MRIs of axial and coronal brain sections, including extensive clinical correlations.

Focuses on foundational concepts as well as clinically relevant discussions.

Expands basic neural connectivity and functional roles of limbic structures and behavior.

Reviews Global Neural Functions and Disorders in a brand new chapter with more than a dozen new art plates.

Includes many new art plates covering current topics including neural foundations of addiction, dementias, several neuropsychiatric disorders, consciousness, coma and its assessment, sleep regulation, postnatal and adult neurogenesis, endogenous opioid systems, endogenous cannabinoid systems, and others.

Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Contents:

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Section I Overview of the Nervous System

Neurons and Their Properties
Anatomical and Molecular Properties

Neuronal Ultrastructure

Molecular Techniques for Studying Neurons

Genetic Models for Studying Neurological Diseases

Electrical Properties

Neurotransmitter and Signaling Properties

Endogenous Opioid Systems

Cannabinoid Systems

Neuropeptide Neurotransmitters

Amino Acid Neurotransmitters

Skull and Meninges
Brain
Brain Stem and Cerebellum
Spinal Cord
Ventricles and the Cerebrospinal Fluid
Vasculature
Arterial System

Venous System

Developmental Neuroscience
Postnatal and Adult Neurogenesis Sex Steroid Influences on Brain Development

Maternal and Neonatal Stress Influences on the Developing Nervous System Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Section II Regional Neuroscience

Peripheral Nervous System
Introduction and Basic Organization

Somatic Nervous System

Somatosensory System Nuclear Neuronal Organization

Autonomic Nervous System

Spinal Cord
Spinal Cord Cross-Section Cytoarchitecture

Columnar Organization and Neural Sheet Structure in Spinal Cord

Spinal Cord LMN Organization of Inputs and Local Connections

Brain Stem and Cerebellum
Brain Stem Cross-Sectional Anatomy

Lateral View of Whole Brain and Brain Stem

Cerebral Cortex Nissl-Stained Histological Sections

Periaqueductal Gray

Cranial Nerves and Cranial Nerve Nuclei

Reticular Formation

Raphe Nuclei and Locus Coeruleus

Dendrite Bundles and their Functional Role

Cerebellum

Diencephalon
Telencephalon
Section III Systemic Neuroscience

Sensory Systems
Somatosensory Systems

Trigeminal Sensory System

Sensory System for Taste

Auditory System

Vestibular System

Visual System

Motor Systems
Lower Motor Neurons

Upper Motor Neurons

Cerebellum

Basal Ganglia

Autonomic-Hypothalamic-Limbic Systems
Autonomic Nervous System

Hypothalamus and Pituitary

Anterior Pituitary Hormone and Target Feedback

Hypothalamus: Afferent and Efferent Pathways

Estrogen and Androgen Effects on Behavior

Glucocorticoid Effects in the Periphery and Central Consequences

Catecholamine Effects in the Periphery and Central Consequences

Oxytocin and Vasopressin Effects on Behavior

Limbic System

Olfactory System

Orbitofronal Cortex
Prefrontal Cortex
Amygdala and Behavior
Ventral Tegmental Area and Mesolimbic and Mesocortical Systems
Nucleus Accumbens
Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis
Insular Cortex
Nucleus Basalis of Meynert
Circumventricular Organs

Section IV Global Brain Functions

Dementias
Alzheimer's Disease and Its Mechanisms

Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Schizophrenia

Unipolar and Bipolar Depression

Panic and Anxiety Disorders

Post-Traumati Stress (PTSD)

Tramatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Brain Substrates and Addictive Behaviors
Opioid Addiction and Abuse

Aging and the Nervous System
Memory and Concentration
Consciousness
Focus and Attention
Coma
Music and the Brain