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Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications

  • 6th Edition - November 22, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Duane E. Haines, Gregory A. Mihailoff, Mary Alissa Willis
  • Language: English

Designed to help you comprehend and retain the challenging material you need to know, Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications, Sixth Edition, covers the es… Read more

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Designed to help you comprehend and retain the challenging material you need to know, Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications, Sixth Edition, covers the essential neuroscience information needed for coursework, exams, and beyond. Using a rigorous yet clinically-focused approach, it integrates neuroanatomy, pharmacology, and physiology, with separate sections devoted to essential concepts, regional neurobiology, and systems neurobiology.

Key features

  • Begins with the basic concepts that are needed to understand neuroscience at a fundamental level, followed by regional coverage designed to help prepare you for examinations, and ending with a full section on systems neurobiology as you enter the clinical phase of your education
  • Contains new end-of-chapter review questions, as well as thoroughly updated information in every chapter, with an emphasis on new clinical thinking as related to the brain and systems neurobiology
  • Features hundreds of correlated state-of-the-art imaging examples, anatomical diagrams, and histology photos
  • Pays special attention to the correct use of clinical and anatomical terminology, and provides clinical text and clinical-anatomical correlations
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text and figures, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
  • Evolve Instructor site with an image collection and test bank is available to instructors through their Elsevier sales rep or via request at https://evolve-elsevier-com.ucc.idm.oclc.org

Readership

Medical Students

Table of contents

SECTION I ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS

1. Orientation to the Structure and Imaging of the Central Nervous System

2. The Cell Biology of Neurons and Glia

3. The Electrochemical Basis of Nerve Function

4. Chemical Signaling in the Nervous System

5. Development of the Nervous System

SECTION II REGIONAL NEUROBIOLOGY

6. The Ventricles, Choroid Plexus, and Cerebrospinal Fluid

7. The Meninges

8. A Survey of the Cerebrovascular System

9. The Spinal Cord

10. An Overview of the Brainstem

11. The Medulla Oblongata

12. The Pons and Cerebellum

13. The Midbrain

14. A Synopsis of Cranial Nerves of the Brainstem

15. The Diencephalon

16. The Telencephalon

SECTION III SYSTEMS NEUROBIOLOGY

17. The Somatosensory System I: Tactile Discrimination and Position Sense

18. The Somatosensory System II: Nociception, Thermal Sense, and Touch

19. Viscerosensory Pathways

20. The Visual System

21. The Auditory System

22. The Vestibular System

23. Olfaction and Taste

24. Motor System I: Peripheral Sensory, Brainstem, and Spinal Influence on Anterior Horn Neurons

25. Motor System II: Corticofugal Systems and the Control of Movement

26. The Basal Nuclei

27. The Cerebellum

28. Visual Motor Systems

29. Visceral Motor Pathways

30. The Hypothalamus

31. The Limbic System

32. The Cerebral Cortex

33. The Neurologic Examination

Appendix A Answers to Review Questions
e-Appendix B Alternate Figure Option for Anatomic and Clinical Orientation

Review quotes

Review of the previous edition:
"This is one of the best neuroscience books available, probably one of the three best currently. It provides broad coverage with detailed information on this massive topic." - Eduardo A De Sousa, MD, FAAN (Mercy NeuroScience Institute) Doody's Score: 97 - 5 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 6, 2025
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Duane E. Haines

Dr. Haines is an exceedingly well-respected academic (a former Henry Gray/Elsevier award winner from the American Association of Anatomists and a Distinguished Teacher Award winner from the Association of American Medical Colleges). Though Dr. Haines has retired as Chair of the Department of Anatomy as well as Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Mississippi, he retains a working relationship with Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He travels extensively and continues to speak frequently at meetings both in the US and Internationally.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, and Professor of Neurology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Professor Emeritus (and Former Chairman); Professor, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA

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Gregory A. Mihailoff

Professor Emeritus Gregory A. Mihailoff works in the Department of Anatomy at Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anatomy, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona, USA

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Mary Alissa Willis

Mary Alissa Willis is Vice Chair in the Department of Neurology at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Affiliations and expertise
Vice Chair, Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA