Best neuroanatomy/neuroscience book

[Ruban]

Hi all,
My school has an organ-system based curriculum, and I am currently looking for a good neuro book. I have browsed Amazon and the bookstore, but would like some opinions. Three I am looking at are:
Martin's Neuroanatomy
Kingsley's Concise Text of Neuroscience
Manter and Gatz's Neuroanatomy

Any recommendations or opinions would be very helpful. Thanks!

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[lindyloohoo]

i recommend neuroanatomy through clinical cases by hal blumenfeld. great book with clinical cases to solidify it in your head. plus he goes over how the clinical exam correlates with the science of it all.

 

[opus03]

I really like "The Human Brain" by John Nolte, although it's not too clinical. It has great atlas sections and is easy to understand. Also, "Principles of Neuroscience" by Kandel is really a great resource. It's a very large book but when I actually took the time to read a chapter here and there, it was amazingly easy to follow.

 

[Wednesday]

I really like "The Human Brain" by John Nolte, although it's not too clinical. It has great atlas sections and is easy to understand. Also, "Principles of Neuroscience" by Kandel is really a great resource. It's a very large book but when I actually took the time to read a chapter here and there, it was amazingly easy to follow.

I agree, Nolte is great. It's easy to read and understand (he even has some jokes in there). Some people don't think it's detailed enough, but if you supplement with Kandel (from the library) you get everything you need. Have fun, I loved neuro!

 

[Ruban]

Thanks for the replies so far folks 🙂 Regarding the Blumenfeld text, I liked the case-oriented nature, but was concerned about reading a 1000 page textbook! Do we really need that much information if we're just MS-IIs, and not neurologists?

 

[lindyloohoo]

i picked and chose what I read, but in the end I read a good portion of blumenfeld. it's really clinically based, so I plan on using it next year during my neurology clerkship as well. personally, i used snell clinical neuroanatomy and Hal's book (I had never had neuro before) and I learned a ton. Granted I read pretty fast. I've never used any other the other books, so I can't speak to those. Check some out of the library, read a similar section (few pages) and decide which style you like best.

 

[mpsheeha]

I also recommend the Case based text. As far as Nolte goes.....it is good for some hard core neuroanatomy but it really sucks for clinical stuff. My school went to using the comprehensive statewide neuroscience exam for the first time this year and a lot of my classmates really sucked it up. It is almost totally clinical. Furthermore, it is my understanding that the USMLE is the same way. I strongly recommend checking out Washington University's Neuro tutorial website http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/ Also, neuroexam.com is great for how to evaluate patients. This site is buy the authors of the Case based text that the others have suggested. USMLEasy.com also provides great test questions and you can select them by subject ie. neuroanatomy. The only thing is that this site costs a pretty penny. Maybe you could split the cost with a few classmates?? One other piece of advice, if your school is taking the neuro statewide know the innervation of the limbs. This was covered in our anatomy course like most schools; however, it was hit really hard on the neuro statewide.

 

[hans19]

May I suggest: High-Yield Neuroanatomy.

Fits in a coat pocket. This plus your syllabus and scribe notes, and you should be golden. 👍

-Hans