Clinical Neuroanatomy Brain Circuitry and Its Disorders /

• Main Author: Donkelaar, Hans J. ten (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Biomedicine.

Connections define the functions of neurons: information flows along connections, as well as growth factors and viruses, and even neuronal death may progress through connections. Knowledge of how the various parts of the brain are interconnected to form functional systems is a prerequisite for the p...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of the human brain and spinal cord
• Vascularization of the brain and spinal cord
• Notes on techniques
• The somatosensory system
• The reticular formation
• The cranial nerves
• The auditory system
• The visual system
• Motor systems
• The cerebellum
• The basal ganglia
• The autonomic nervous system
• The hypothalamus and hypothalamohypophysial systems
• The limbic system
• The cerebral cortex and complex cerebral functions.