Lippincott's Illustrated Q&A Review of Neuroscience offers up-to-date, clinically relevant board-style questions&&&8212;perfect for course review and board prep! Approximately 500 multiple-choice questions with detailed answer explanations cover frequently tested topics in neuroscience. Readers will find questions related to clinical topics, USMLE-style clinical vignettes, and content review questions. The book is heavily illustrated with clinical photographs and images portraying signs and symptoms and radiological images, including ultrasounds, PET scans, MRIs, CT scans, and X-rays.

Online access to the questions and answers on a companion website provides flexible study options.

Lippincott's Illustrated Q&A Review of Neuroscience offers up-to-date, clinically relevant board-style questions&&&8212;perfect for course review and board prep! Approximately 500 multiple-choice questions with detailed answer explanations cover frequently tested topics in neuroscience. Readers will find questions related to clinical topics, USMLE-style clinical vignettes, and content review questions. The book is heavily illustrated with clinical photographs and images portraying signs and symptoms and radiological images, including ultrasounds, PET scans, MRIs, CT scans, and X-rays.

Online access to the questions and answers on a companion website provides flexible study options.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction - A Cautionary Tale of Right and Left

• Chapter 1 General Concepts
• Chapter 2 Development and Developmental Defects
• Chapter 3 The Meninges
• Chapter 4 The Ventricles and Cerebrospinal Fluid
• Chapter 5 An Overview of the Cerebrovascular System
• Chapter 6 The Spinal Cord
• Chapter 7 The Medulla Oblongata
• Chapter 8 The Pons
• Chapter 9 The Midbrain
• Chapter 10 An Overview of Cranial Nerves of the Brainstem
• Chapter 11 The Diencephalon
• Chapter 12 The Telencephalon
• Chapter 13 General Sensory Pathways: Proprioception, Discriminative Touch, Pain, and Thermal Sensations
• Chapter 14 Special Sense I: The Visual System
• Chapter 15 Special Sense II: The Auditory and Vestibular Systems
• Chapter 16 Special Sense III: Olfaction and Taste
• Chapter 17 General Visceral Sensory and Motor Pathways
• Chapter 18 Motor Pathways: Corticospinal, Corticonuclear, and Other Influences on Motor Neurons
• Chapter 19 The Basal Nuclei
• Chapter 20 The Cerebellum
• Chapter 21 The Hypothalamus
• Chapter 22 The Limbic System
• Chapter 23 General Review and Identification Questions