Neurosciences
This book, being comprehensive and providing an integrated approach, is recommended for post graduate students of clinical neurology, psychiatry and neurosurgery, as well as for the undergraduate courses for which it is designed.
Abstract
INFANTILEAUTISM The three authors of this book state that it is designed to provide a single integrated text for medical school courses in the neurosciences. This aim has been achieved in a wieldy volume, admirable for the clarity of text, generously supplemented by excellent diagrams and photographic illustrations. Integration is achieved by introducing some relevant clinical data in the early chapters which deal pri manly with basic anatomy, embryology and cytology, and which include illustrations of light and electron micrographs. The clinical aspects are expanded in chapters in which clinical cases illustrate anatomical and func tional aspects of the various systems. The chapters on the anatomy and clinical aspects of the spinal cord, brain stem and cerebral hemispheres are supple mented by problem solving exercises derived from actual case records. An answer sheet is available on request. Similar exercises in problems of cell and nerve physiology are provided. A film strip of sixty two frames supplementing the course and a viewer are also available from the publisher. The prices of these supplementary aids are not stated. Chapter I I is entitled †̃¿ Microscopic Anatomy of the Brainstem', but deals in fact with the gross topo graphical anatomy of tracts and cranial nerve nuclei in the form of a series of transverse myelin-stained sections and appropriate diagrams and text. Basic neuropathology is covered briefly in the chapters on the clinical considerations of the cerebral hemi spheres. The microphotographs in this section are disappointing, both scant and poorly reproduced. For quick reference the final chapter consists of a short descriptive atlas of the brain and cord. This book, being comprehensive and providing an integrated approach, is recommended for post graduate students of clinical neurology, psychiatry and neurosurgery, as well as for the undergraduate courses for which it is designed.