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or is the Neuro section in First Aid a bit weak?? I'm taking it as a kind of syllabus of things to read up on from other sources but just wondered what the best sources may be? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
 
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WalterDandy said:
or is the Neuro section in First Aid a bit weak?? I'm taking it as a kind of syllabus of things to read up on from other sources but just wondered what the best sources may be? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
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judging from your screen name, it sounds like no single resource will be able to satisfy you. but I thought that the neuro section in Kaplan Home Study series was comprehensive and detailed (the neuroanatomy and neuro-pharm sections are 100 pages each).
 
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good one: neuro... weak....

ahem. i agree the neuro in FA is a little brief; conversely, i think the kaplan books are a little too much. as i recall, the step1 CNS questions were in more detail than the peripheral system questions. personally, i used FA, read part of the kaplan section (but decided it was low-yield), and spent 1 day reviewing my 1st-year neurology course... and i did well on step1 neuro.
 
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I agree with u walker. I went through FA neuro and still did not perform excellently on the Qbank from that session. So i decided to suck it up and use HY Neuroanatomy, which is way better and has more anatomy. After that, i will go back to FA and hit the major points they have.
 
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I've said it before, I'll say it again: Neuro is close to overrepresented on Step 1 these days. And this just isn't me (n=1) this was a consensus of people in my class (and we are very well prepared in neuroanatomy/neuroscience in the first two years).
 
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If you have the resources, HY Neuro in conjunction with Kaplan's MedEssential's Neuro section do a pretty decent job of going through the various syndromes and the anatomy correlates.
 
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I used Road Map Neuroscience and found it quite good. I prefer it to High Yield Neuro as the writing style is better. However, HY does have more images.
 
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I picked up Clinical Neuroanatomy MRS for free. Is this a decent book, it seems small? Should I just suck it up and get HY? After making my schedule it seems like I have so little time to go reading another book.
 
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I used HY newuroanatomy. It helped me a lot in the exam. I also suggest the head and neck chapter from HY Gross anatomy. Wish you best of luck.
 
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I picked up Clinical Neuroanatomy MRS for free. Is this a decent book, it seems small? Should I just suck it up and get HY? After making my schedule it seems like I have so little time to go reading another book.
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I read this book before my neuro final last year and really thought it was pretty much worthless. It might be a good intro to basic neuro concepts before you've been exposed to them in class, but I think it's too light on detail to be of use to anyone after the class. Of course I haven't taken Step 1 yet, so I don't know. I can say I'm planning on using HY instead, though.
 
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