Barr's The Human Nervous System simplifies neuroscience content to focus coverage on the essentials and helps students learn important neuroanatomical facts and definitions.

Barr's The Human Nervous System features:

• new and improved artwork
• updates in current trends and terminology
• additions/updates to the Cranial Nerves chapter and Cells of the Nervous System chapter

Contents

1. Development, Composition, and Evolution of the Nervous System
2. Cells of the Nervous System
3. Peripheral Nervous System
4. Imaging Techniques and Neuroanatomical Research Methods
5. Spinal Cord
6. Brain Stem: External Anatomy
7. Brain Stem: Nuclei and Tracts
8. Cranial Nerves
9. Reticular Formation
10. Cerebellum
11. Diencephalon
12. Corpus Striatum
13. Topography of the Cerebral Hemispheres
14. Histology of the Cerebral Cortex
15. Functional Localization in the Cerebral Cortex
16. Cerebral White Matter and Lateral Ventricles
17. Olfactory System
18. Limbic System: The Hippocampus and the Amygdala
19. General Sensory Systems
20. Visual System
21. Auditory System
22. Vestibular System
23. Motor Systems
24. Visceral Innervation
25. Blood Supply of the Central Nervous System
26. Meninges and Cerebrospinal Fluid

Index

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