Best apps/resources for anatomy (currently, head & neck)

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I'm someone who has a lot of trouble visualizing things, so I always knew anatomy was gonna be a challenge for me.

Essential Anatomy did a great job at getting me through the muscles of the limbs (though not as much for arteries and nerves - if anyone has tips on those, I'm all ears as well), but now that we've hit Head & Neck I'm struggling again. I am having a hard time visualizing and conceptualizing all the sinuses and ventricles and was wondering if you guys have any tips, apps, videos, etc. that you would recommend. I have heard picmonics is helpful for microbio but have no idea if it would help for anatomy (at least, for the things I need - not just muscles)

Thanks!!!

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I'm someone who has a lot of trouble visualizing things, so I always knew anatomy was gonna be a challenge for me.

Essential Anatomy did a great job at getting me through the muscles of the limbs (though not as much for arteries and nerves - if anyone has tips on those, I'm all ears as well), but now that we've hit Head & Neck I'm struggling again. I am having a hard time visualizing and conceptualizing all the sinuses and ventricles and was wondering if you guys have any tips, apps, videos, etc. that you would recommend. I have heard picmonics is helpful for microbio but have no idea if it would help for anatomy (at least, for the things I need - not just muscles)

Thanks!!!
How about something like Visible Body to help you see things in 3D + the Thieme anatomy books on the head/neuroanatomy and neck and facial nerve, etc.?
 
For neuro gross anatomy, I found these Anki decks useful:

Arteries head and neck - https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1725300826
Bony anatomy - https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1505637531
Miscellaneous neuro structures - https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1885343385
Head and neck musculature - https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/398387161
Head and neck nerves - https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/13083552
Pterygopalatine fossa anatomy - https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/879596105
Skull foramen/canals - https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/154048518

For neuroanatomy/brainstem things I liked these resources:


I loved Dr. Najeeb’s Basal Ganglia series on youtube. He’s a bit long winded but it you sit through it you will have it down by the end. I also highly recommend his diencehalon sequence, brainstem anatomy, hypothalamus, visual system, and the cerebellum. If nothing else, his long track videos are gold (ascending tracts, descending motor tracts, upper and lower motor neurons and their lesions). A lot of his sequences are a bit overkill, I skimmed through some of the ones or stopped the sequence when he started going into too much detail. Some of his videos are on youtube, he has a subscription based website that I actually shelled out for because I love his videos, but if you look around on the web a bit you can usually find his videos hosted somewhere.

This site is great for practicing the long tracts in the spinal cord and brainstem:
http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/animations/hyperbrain/pathways/

Great for coronal anatomy of the basal ganglia:
http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/Thalamus/thal.html

Great for learning brainstem cross-sectional anatomy:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rswenson/Atlas/BrainStem/

More brainstem cross-sectional anatomy plates:
http://www.bellarmine.edu/faculty/mwiegand/atlas/cover.html

Gold for learning the brainstem pathways and location of nuclei:
http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/virtualbrain/BrainStem/01Pyramid.html

Rule of 4 for Brainstem syndromes (first link is text explanation, second link has good images demonstrating location of tracts):
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/brainstem-rules-of-4/

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/the-rule-of-4-of-the-brainstem/

Common stroke syndromes (tracing the deficits back to location in the brainstem where the stroke occurred):


Labeled brain cross-sections:
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/HISTHTML/NEURANAT/NEURANCA.html

More brain cross-sections:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rswenson/Atlas/

Brain coronal cross-sections
http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/levels/thalamus/Level11.html
http://www.neuroanatomy.ca/interactive/coronal1a.html

Good brain/brainstem medical illustrations:
http://intranet.tdmu.edu.ua/data/ka...ebellum. Fourth ventricle. Rhomboid fossa.htm

Somatosensory pathways for the face:
http://www.bioon.com/bioline/neurosci/course/face.html

35 practice lesion questions:
http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/natbrdrev/nbrbase1.htm

15 lesion practice cases:
http://learn.chm.msu.edu/neuropath/content/neuropath_cases/neuroanatomy_cases/Case1a.html

~50 practice lesion questions
http://tusm.temple.edu/neuroanatomy/lab/cs_quiz/index.html

Ipsilateral vs. contralateral cranial nerve lesions:
http://www.usmle-forums.com/usmle-s…teral-versus-contralateral-neuro-lesions.html

~50 questions on lesions/CNS deficits and pathology
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/EXAM/MULTORG/cns1frm.htm

8 cases for CNS lesions with imaging correlation (go to this website and then hit interactive cases)
http://lesionlocalizer.com

Gross anatomy images/quiz for head and neck:
http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/haonline/quiz/practice/u5/quiztop5.htm

Differentiating the different types of strokes:
http://www.usmleforum.com/files/forum/2010/2/531182.php
 
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For head and neck the Thieme atlas is awesome. I also like Acland's DVD atlas because it really helps with the 3D aspect of it. I would recommend spending a lot of time with a good skull until your landmarks are down cold. This is also an area where lab time is actually very helpful. But make no mistake, head and neck is difficult anatomy.
 
thanks so much everyone!!!! super helpful
 
I thought essential anatomy was pretty great for looking at veins/arteries to see how things went around structures, etc. I'm still looking for other things as well since it helps to see things from all sorts of angles!
 
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I can definitely recommend Essential Anatomy by 3D4 Medical. There's an app for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. I use the Mac app to viualize anatomy in 3D for the Human Anatomy class I am currently taking. I don't know what I would do without it.
 
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