Essential Clinical Anatomy of the Nervous System

Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    Chapter 1: Introduction to the Nervous System
        Abstract
        1.1. Overview of the nervous system
        1.2. Divisions of the nervous system
        1.3. Brain
        1.4. Spinal cord
        1.5. Cranial nerves
    Chapter 2: Essential Anatomy and Function of the Brain
        Abstract
        2.1. Introduction
        2.2. Forebrain
        2.3. Pathologies
        2.4. Midbrain
        2.5. Hindbrain
    Chapter 3: Forebrain
        Abstract
        3.1. Introduction
        3.2. Telencephalon
        3.3. Clinical assessment
        3.4. Pathologies
        3.5. Diencephalon
    Chapter 4: Midbrain (Mesencephalon)
        Abstract
        4.1. Revision point
    Chapter 5: Hindbrain (Rhombencephalon)
        Abstract
        5.1. Revision point
        5.2. Metencephalon
        5.3. Clinical assessment
        5.4. Pathologies
        5.5. Clinical assessment
        5.6. Pathologies
    Chapter 6: Blood Supply of the Brain and Clinical Issues
        Abstract
        6.1. General introduction
        6.2. Internal carotid artery
        6.3. Vertebral artery
        6.4. Posterior cerebral artery
        6.5. Venous drainage of the brain
        6.6. Clinical assessment
        6.7. Pathologies
        6.8. Other pathologies affecting the cerebral circulation
    Chapter 7: Essential Anatomy and Function of the Spinal Cord
        Abstract
        7.1. Meninges
        7.2. Clinical assessment
        7.3. Pathologies
        7.4. Spinal nerves
        7.5. Spinal cord
    Chapter 8: Spinal Tracts – Ascending/Sensory Pathways
        Abstract
        8.1. General introduction
        8.2. Dorsal column/medial lemniscus
        8.3. Spinocerebellar tract
        8.4. Anterolateral system
    Chapter 9: Spinal Tracts – Descending/Motor Pathways
        Abstract
        9.1. Pyramidal tracts
        9.2. Clinical assessment
        9.3. Pathologies
        9.4. Pathologies
        9.5. Clinical assessment
        9.6. Pathologies
        9.7. Extrapyramidal tracts
        9.8. Clinical assessment
        9.9. Clinical assessment
        9.10. Clinical assessment
        9.11. Pathologies
    Chapter 10: Brainstem Tracts
        Abstract
        10.1. Corticopontine fibers
        10.2. Clinical assessment
        10.3. Nuclei of cranial nerves
        10.4. Clinical assessment
        10.5. Clinical assessment
        10.6. Clinical assessment
        10.7. Clinical assessment
        10.8. Clinical assessment
        10.9. Clinical assessment
        10.10. Inferior olivary complex
        10.11. Olivocerebellar fibers
    Index