Neuroanatomy texts

[tideleonheart]

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I have been using Thieme (mostly an atlas) and it just isn't cutting it. What 2 books do you recommend? One as a boards study guide and the other as a textbook.

 

[BobBarker]

Blumenfield for the text.

 

[JStub]

I used High Yield Neuroanatomy for step 1 and will be using it again for step 2. It was pretty helpful and I got it for under 10 bucks used online.

 

[Doublehelix77]

The Nolte text is great. The Haines atlas has really good pictures with tracts, and a USMLE prep section in the back also.

 

[TexasTriathlete]

Is high yield neuroanatomy really "high yield"? That is, sufficient for boards?

The bulk of our neuro course is taught by Don Penney, who apparently did residencies in neurosurgery and emergency medicine, and he practices both currently, and teaches at like 3 programs. This is relevant, because anyone who does as much as him clearly loves pain and suffering. To be perfectly honest, he is flat out nasty.

On the other hand, he is the man, and I'd talk to him all day if I could.

But his packets make high yield look like no yield. If he was only allowed to lecture out of the HY book, he'd do it in one day.

 

[JStub]

Is high yield neuroanatomy really "high yield"? That is, sufficient for boards?

The bulk of our neuro course is taught by Don Penney, who apparently did residencies in neurosurgery and emergency medicine, and he practices both currently, and teaches at like 3 programs. This is relevant, because anyone who does as much as him clearly loves pain and suffering. To be perfectly honest, he is flat out nasty.

On the other hand, he is the man, and I'd talk to him all day if I could.

But his packets make high yield look like no yield. If he was only allowed to lecture out of the HY book, he'd do it in one day.

Its a pretty thin book (small writing but still). It includes all the high yield stuff and a little more.

 

[bigDinLV]

Like someone else said..

blumenfeld, Neuroanatomy through clinical cases (something like that)

 

[BobBarker]

At my school our "hard" classes were gross, histo, and neuro. Histo and neuro are very, very lightly hit on the boards. Gross is tested on a little more but stil much less than the "bugs and drugs" and phys. Its important to remember that in your pre-clinical years.