Description
An integrated textbook on the nervous system, covering both the basic science of the system and its major diseases.
Key Features
- Integrated coverage of the structure, function and major diseases of the nervous system - highly suitable for systems courses as taught in the new medical curriculum
- Coverage of the basic science is clinically driven - for instance organisation of the basal ganglia is introduced through Parkinson's disease.
- Coverage of major diseases of the nervous system, together with a chapter on neurological examination, symptoms and investigations, equips students for the contact with patients which now occurs much earlier in the medical course.
- Covers psychiatric problems as well as neurological ones - in line with the integrated nature of the new courses.
- Attractive, open two-colour page design, with objectives defined at the start of each chapter and self-assessment at the end.
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Author Information
By Adina Michael-Titus, Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience and Pharmacology, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK
London Technology Network Business Fellow; Patricia Revest, Head of Educational Technology
Lecturer in Neurophysiology, Neuroscience Section, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK; and Peter Shortland, Lecturer in Anatomy, Neuroscience Section, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK
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