Main description:

Lippincott's Illustrated Q&A Review of Neuroscience offers up-to-date, clinically relevant board-style questions-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.

Contents:

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