Good Neuroanatomy Book

[rls303]

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Hi everyone,

I'm almost done with my 1s year at AZCOm and we are taking Neuroanatomy next quarter. I did very poorly in Anatomy for the 1st 2 quarters (Gross Anatomy) and I feel like my handle on the autonomic concepts was not very good.

I was wondering if anyone suggestions for a good book to use that will be good for Board review later on? Is BRS good?

I've searched past threads, but I wanted to know what is the best current resource.

Thanks

 

[Charles_Carmichael]

I used "Neuroanatomy through clinical cases" by Hal Blumenfeld. Absolutely the best book I've ever read in my life. Hands down. Not even Costanzo was this enjoyable to read.

It's a big book though (~900 pages), but if you have the time, I highly, highly recommend it. Our neuroscience block lasted about 1.5 months, so I nearly read the book cover-to-cover. LOTS of clinical correlations and patient cases to work through, which really helps reinforce the neuroanatomy. It's one of those rare books that actually makes you want to read it more.

If you're in a time-crunch though, I think the USMLE Road Map Neuroscience book + HY neuro would be a great combination to succeed in both neurophys and neuroanatomy. Both those books are concise too (the Road Map book is ~200 pages and the HY is less than that) and fairly comprehensive. I used these as a review before our final exam and thought they were very well-written.

Have fun! I really enjoyed the neuro block. The whole localizing-the-lesion aspect was very fun and elegant, IMO.

 

[upright]

"Fingering the Brain" by A.T. Still

 

[costales]

I'm almost done with my 1s year at AZCOm and we are taking Neuroanatomy next quarter. I did very poorly in Anatomy for the 1st 2 quarters (Gross Anatomy)

You might want to take a look at this series as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-uFLKfxJOA

 

[ushush]

I used "Neuroanatomy through clinical cases" by Hal Blumenfeld. Absolutely the best book I've ever read in my life. Hands down. Not even Costanzo was this enjoyable to read.

It's a big book though (~900 pages), but if you have the time, I highly, highly recommend it. Our neuroscience block lasted about 1.5 months, so I nearly read the book cover-to-cover. LOTS of clinical correlations and patient cases to work through, which really helps reinforce the neuroanatomy. It's one of those rare books that actually makes you want to read it more.

If you're in a time-crunch though, I think the USMLE Road Map Neuroscience book + HY neuro would be a great combination to succeed in both neurophys and neuroanatomy. Both those books are concise too (the Road Map book is ~200 pages and the HY is less than that) and fairly comprehensive. I used these as a review before our final exam and thought they were very well-written.

Have fun! I really enjoyed the neuro block. The whole localizing-the-lesion aspect was very fun and elegant, IMO.

I support this. But "enjoyable" with regards to med school books is arguable.

 

[NewBlood]

Hal Blumenfeld is a golden god.

 

[hematosis]

Hi everyone,

I'm almost done with my 1s year at AZCOm and we are taking Neuroanatomy next quarter. I did very poorly in Anatomy for the 1st 2 quarters (Gross Anatomy) and I feel like my handle on the autonomic concepts was not very good.

I was wondering if anyone suggestions for a good book to use that will be good for Board review later on? Is BRS good?

I've searched past threads, but I wanted to know what is the best current resource.

Thanks

Get Haines Neuroanatomy atlas.
More importantly, get Sidmans neuroanatomy. its a program learning tool. basically it is a workbook and will really help you understand class concepts.

 

[xno13]

"Fingering the Brain" by A.T. Still

 

[Superman DO]

I have Neuroanatomy: text and atlas by John H. Martin. I love it. The Haines atlas is also quite good.

 

[randomusername]

They take the images for their lectures and from the exams almost exclusively from the Haines Atlas. If you're really nice to your big sib they can lend you their copy or they or a classmate may or may not have a questionably legal electronic copy to "lend" you. If you just attend lecture for the first unit and circle all the structures that are discussed in your atlas, you'll have 90% of the first exam solved and won't have to learn too many new structures in your atlas for the rest of the course either.

There's also the Haines text which Dr. Mihailoff wrote a number of chapters in. It's a great book for learning the pathways and lesions but includes waaaaaaay too many details you don't need to know for the course. Best suggestion is to either attend lecture or listen to recordings and add notes to the powerpoints as you follow along, and to also read Dr. M's lecture notes (everything he doesn't mention in his slides or you miss in lecture because you've fallen asleep is almost always mentioned in his lecture notes).

While anatomy and neuro were definitely comparable courses, if you're more of a conceptual person like myself, you'll likely do better in and enjoy neuro a lot more than anatomy.

 

[Styria]

If you're weak on the autonomic nervous system for boards, read the chapter on autonomics in Foundations of Osteopathic Medicine.

 

[Ghost22]

High Yield Neuroanatomy was very helpful for me.

 

[aldosterone2]

Haines for atlas and Nolte for class. Kaplan should be enough for boards.