Integrated Neuroscience and Neurology

The late Elliott M. Marcus, MD, was Professor Emeritus of Neurology, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Lecturer in Neurology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Chairman Emeritus, Department of Neurology, Saint Vincent Hospital and Fallon Clinic, Worcester, MA. Stanley Jacobson, PhD is Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology at Tufts University, Health Sciences Campus, Boston, MA. He is also a Fulbright Scholar. Thomas D. Sabin, MD, is a Professor of Neurology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA.

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION TO BASIC NEUROBIOLOGY ; 1. Overview of the Nervous System ; 2. Overview of localization of function and Neurological diagnosis ; 3. Neurocytology ; 4. Neuroembryology ; 5. Skeletal Muscle and Nerve-Muscle Junction ; SECTION II: REGIONAL APPROACH TO NEUROANATOMY AND FUNCTIONAL LOCALIZATION ; 6. Spinal Cord Structure and Physiology ; 7. Atlas of the Spinal Cord ; 8. Disease of Peripheral Nerve and Nerve Root ; 9. Clinical Considerations of the Spinal Cord ; 10. Case History Problem Solving Part I; Spinal Cord, Nerve Root ; 11. Functional Anatomy of the Brain Stem with Atlas of the brain stem ; 12. Cranial Nerves ; 13. Brain Stem Clinical Considerations ; 14. Case History Problem Solving Part II: Brain Stem and Cranial Nerves ; 15. Diencephalic Nuclei, functional localization, and Atlas of the Diencephalon. ; SECTION III: MAJOR SYSTEMS ; 16. Hypothalamus, Neuroendocrine and Autonomic Systems ; 17. Cerebral Cortex, Cytoarchitecture, Functional Localization ; 18. Motor System Part I : Reflex activity and Cortical motor functions. ; 19. Motor System Part II : Basal Ganglia and Movement Disorders ; 20. Motor System Part III: Cerebellum and Movement ; 21. Somatosensory Function and the Parietal Lobe ; 22. Limbic Lobe; Functions of Emotional Brain-Prefrontal, Temporal and cingulate Gyri ; 23. Visual System; The eye, lateral geniculate and Occipital Lobes ; 24. Speech Language Cerebral dominance and the Aphasias ; 25. Case history Problem Solving Part IV: Cortical Localization ; 26. Disease of the Cerebral Hemispheres; I Vascular Syndromes ; 27. Diseases of the Cerebral Hemispheres: II Non-Vascular ; 28. Case history Problem Solving Part V: Cerebral Hemispheres ; SECTION IV: COMPLEX FUNCTIONS ; 29. Alterations in Consciousness; Seizures, Coma and Sleep ; 30. Learning, Memory, Amnesia, Dementia ; 31. Case History Problem Solving Part V- General Cases ; 32. Case History Problem Solving: VI Case History Review with Correlation to Illustrations ; 33. ATLAS of Cerebrum. ; BIBLIOGRAPHY