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ISBN 10: 0702057134
ISBN 13: 9780702057137
Author: Paul Johns
This new volume in the Illustrated Colour Text series provides a clear, integrated introduction to the essential basic and clinical aspects of neuroscience. It is carefully matched to the needs of medical students and junior doctors and will also prove invaluable to biomedical and imaging neuroscientists and any others who require a sound understanding of the most common and important brain diseases and the concepts that underlie them. It is the perfect companion to Crossman’s bestselling Neuroanatomy ICT.
Short, affordable and readable introductory level text in the smae style as Crossman: Neuroanatomy.
Assumes little previous neuroscience knowledge.
Explains fundamental concepts without overwhelming detail
Focuses on clinically relevant material.
Includes the most common and important neurological disorders.
Clinical Neuroscience An Illustrated Colour Text 1st Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Overview of the nervous system
Parts of the nervous system
Cells of the nervous system
Basic cerebral topography
The spinal cord
Protective coverings of the CNS
Chapter 2: Development of the brain
Neural tube formation
Divisions of the brain
Ventricular system
Chapter 3: Functional neuroanatomy
Cerebral cortex
Hippocampus and amygdala
Basal ganglia
Thalamus and hypothalamus
Brain stem and cerebellum
Chapter 4: Sensory and motor pathways
Spinal segments
Somatic sensory pathways
Somatic motor pathways
Lower motor neurons
Reflexes and muscle tone
Chapter 5: Neurons and glial cells
Nerve cells
Astrocytes
Oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells
Other glial cells
Glial tumours
Chapter 6: Electrical signalling in neurons
The neuron at rest
Excitability
The action potential
Axonal conduction
Chapter 7: Synaptic transmission
General principles
Neurotransmitters
Postsynaptic receptors
Synaptic integration
Chapter 8: Cellular mechanisms of neurological disease
Neuronal injury and death
Cell death mechanisms
Inflammation and gliosis
Neurodegeneration
Prion diseases
Chapter 9: Head injury
Clinical aspects
Pathology of head injury
Brain swelling and intracranial pressure
Minor head injury
Chapter 10: Stroke
Types of stroke
Blood supply to the brain
Atherosclerosis
Stroke management
Pathophysiology of stroke
Neuroprotection
Chapter 11: Epilepsy
Types of seizure
General aspects
Diagnosis and management
Neuropathology of epilepsy
Partial seizure mechanisms
Mechanism of absence seizures
Sudden death in epilepsy
Psychological aspects
Chapter 12: Dementia
General aspects
Alzheimer’s disease
Dementia with Lewy bodies
Vascular dementia
Frontotemporal dementia
Chapter 13: Parkinson’s disease
Clinical features
Parkinsonism
Pathology of Parkinson’s disease
Familial Parkinson’s disease
Treatment of Parkinson’s disease
Pathophysiology
Aetiology and pathogenesis
Chapter 14: Multiple sclerosis
Demyelination
Clinical features of MS
Diagnosis and management
Pathological features
Aetiology
Pathogenesis
Neurodegeneration in MS
Anatomical language
Index
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