Lippincotts Illustrated Reviews Neuroscience (Paperback)

This new title in the best-selling Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews series presents essential coverage of neuroscience, focusing on topics related to human health and disease. Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Neuroscience includes the popular features of the series: abundance of full-color, annotated illustrations chapter overviews expanded outline format chapter summaries and review questions that link basic science to real-life clinical situations. The book can be used as a text for a stand-alone neuroscience/neuroanatomy course in medical, health professions, and upper-level undergraduate programs or as a review for boards. A companion website features the fully searchable online text, an interactive Question Bank for students, animations, and an Image Bank for instructors to use to create PowerPoint presentations.

Salient Features
* Enables rapid review and assimilation of large amounts of complex information through signature outline format
* Includes online ancillaries such as the Faculty Image Bank For Students: online text, animations, and USMLE Question Bank
* Distills core concepts through chapter-opening overviews and end-of-chapter summaries
* Prepares students for the course and national exams with clinical vignettes and board-style review questions in each chapter
* Follows the standard approach and expanded outline format of the Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews series
* Visually explains concepts with full-color, annotated illustrations and color-coded tables
* Highlights key words in boldface, while introducing new vocabulary and defining abbreviations

Table of Contents
* Chapter 1: Introduction to the Nervous System and Basic Neurophysiology
* Chapter 2: Overview the Central Nervous System
* Chapter 3: Overview of the Peripheral Nervous System
* Chapter 4: The Visceral Nervous System
* Chapter 5: The Spinal Cord
* Chapter 6: Overview and Organization of the Brainstem
* Chapter 7: Overview of Ascending Sensory Tracts
* Chapter 8: Overview of Descending Motor Tracts
* Chapter 9: Control of Eye Movements
* Chapter 10: Sensory and Motor Innervation of the Head and Neck
* Chapter 11: Hearing and Balance
* Chapter 12: Brainstem Systems and Review
* Chapter 13: The Cerebral Cortex
* Chapter 14: The Thalamus
* Chapter 15: The Visual System
* Chapter 16: Control of Movement: The Basal Ganglia
* Chapter 17: Control of Movement: The Cerebellum
* Chapter 18: The Integration of Motor Control
* Chapter 19: Overview of the Hypothalamus
* Chapter 20: Overview of the Limbic System
* Chapter 21: Olfactory and Gustatory Systems
* Chapter 22: Pain