Need your input! Writing Neuroanatomy Book

[hippocampi]

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Hi Everyone,

Thanks for taking the time to read my post. I'm a neurology resident and I'm involved in teaching at the med school level. Med students continue to tell me that there are few texts that are really useful. While Blumenfeld is great, it's in excess of 1000 pages and it's hard ot know where to start.

This echoed my own experience, and so I've decided to write my own textbook on neuroanatomy and localization (rather than on how to do the exam), aimed specifically on pre-clerks introduction to neurology and neuroanatomy. Something you can read in 2 weeks, learn from, and use (much like Dale Dubins, EKG book).

So please tell me what do you or don't you like about current texts and what would you LIKE in a book? ALL comments appreciated. Thanks!

 

[StIGMA]

Neuroanatomy Text and Atlas by John H Martin. ~500 page neuroanatomy/neurology text now in its 4th edition, written for preclinical medical students. Excellent book.

 

[Arbor Vitae]

I would like pop-ups

but on the real, it'd be cool to incorporate QR codes to watch videos with a smart phone

 

[Yenzen]

When showing anatomical sections, always have a small 3d minimap with a plane through it showing exactly where you are and how the slice has been cut.

For stuff like the afferents, internal and efferents for the cerebellum, make flow diagrams or similar showing all of it at once. Don't split it up to 2-3 seperate textboxes.

 

[soundnin]

although blumenfeld is a massive text, for preclinical neuroanatomy, you only really have to read the background info (optional), do some cases, and read the chapter summary. that cuts down the text to something totally readable in 2 weeks.

 

[roinom]

When showing anatomical sections, always have a small 3d minimap with a plane through it showing exactly where you are and how the slice has been cut.

For stuff like the afferents, internal and efferents for the cerebellum, make flow diagrams or similar showing all of it at once. Don't split it up to 2-3 seperate textboxes.

This. I'm also tired of having to look at several flow diagram just to get to know one pathway. I don't know why this has not been done yet.

 

[Zill]

Master and Gatz's Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology, Edition 5, Ronald G Clark, soft cover, Clinical Neuoanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple by Stephen Goldberg MD, mass market paperback did nearly as well in the marketplace as Dubin's Book. Do you have a publisher or agent yet?

 

[stoic]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for taking the time to read my post. I'm a neurology resident and I'm involved in teaching at the med school level. Med students continue to tell me that there are few texts that are really useful. While Blumenfeld is great, it's in excess of 1000 pages and it's hard ot know where to start.

This echoed my own experience, and so I've decided to write my own textbook on neuroanatomy and localization (rather than on how to do the exam), aimed specifically on pre-clerks introduction to neurology and neuroanatomy. Something you can read in 2 weeks, learn from, and use (much like Dale Dubins, EKG book).

So please tell me what do you or don't you like about current texts and what would you LIKE in a book? ALL comments appreciated. Thanks!

are you paying? or looking to the low hanging fruits for free?

 

[CDI]

Peter Gates - Rule of 4