Neuroanatomy

[andie gustafson]

does anyone know an easy way to memorize the nucleus, tracts, etc etc?? specially the ones from the thalamus

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[ClockworkDoc]

M.D. - Doctors have personality -frontal lobe.

 

[JulyMorning]

Lots of repetition and perhaps drawing the tracts out (definitely helped me). Good luck!

 

[87138]

You'll learn to fall in love with this site:

http://isc.temple.edu/neuroanatomy/lab/atlas/T2/

 

[badasshairday]

You'll learn to fall in love with this site:

http://isc.temple.edu/neuroanatomy/lab/atlas/T2/

My only gripe is that you did not post this earlier!

 

[87138]

My only gripe is that you did not post this earlier!

Yeah, guess this could've been more helpful a couple weeks ago for most.

 

[andie gustafson]

You'll learn to fall in love with this site:

http://isc.temple.edu/neuroanatomy/lab/atlas/T2/

beautiful!

 

[Ryu02ETL]

does anyone know an easy way to memorize the nucleus, tracts, etc etc?? specially the ones from the thalamus

I found these sites helpful. Interactive and animated. I also drew each pathway 2-3 times which helped me to solidify the information.

http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/animations/hyperbrain/pathways/

http://neuroscience.uth.tmc.edu/index.htm

 

[bodonid]

i am interested in what subjects are variable between 1st and 2nd years. anyone know what's common? for us:

1st year:
psych
neuro
histo
anatomy
biochem
physiology
embryo

2nd year:
pharm
path
micro
immuno

that's pretty standard, right? i just heard of someone taking anatomy 2nd year, and I was wondering what the possible variations are.

 

[Isoprop]

http://isc.temple.edu/neuroanatomy/lab/atlas/T2/

I didn't know what the big deal was until I browsed the top menu.

Absolutely fantastic site.

 

[crystalgreen]

concise outlines of the tracts...works wonders for me.

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

i am interested in what subjects are variable between 1st and 2nd years. anyone know what's common? for us:

1st year:
psych
neuro
histo
anatomy
biochem
physiology
embryo

2nd year:
pharm
path
micro
immuno

that's pretty standard, right? i just heard of someone taking anatomy 2nd year, and I was wondering what the possible variations are.

My school follows that almost exactly, but immunology is moved from 2nd year to first year, and "Psych" is divided into human behavior (normal -- first year,) and psychopathology (second year.) Basically, first year = normal, second year = abnormal

 

[BozoSparky]

Check out Sidman & Sidman's Neuroanatomy...I liked it.

It's not a textbook...it is a workbook

 

[ruralmd]

i am interested in what subjects are variable between 1st and 2nd years. anyone know what's common? for us:

1st year:
psych
neuro
histo
anatomy
biochem
physiology
embryo

2nd year:
pharm
path
micro
immuno

that's pretty standard, right? i just heard of someone taking anatomy 2nd year, and I was wondering what the possible variations are.

I think this is pretty standard...here we do some micro/immuno first year and more second year (I don't think this any immuno second year tho, however I start 2nd year in late july) and we save psych for second year but other than that we follow the same schedule

 

[blackbird11384]

If you don't already have them, Haines' Neuroanatomy Atlas and Netter's Neuroanatomy Atlas are both very good. They each show different things (Haines is mostly cross-sections, Netter's is gross and tracts), so I liked having both.

 

[aarabi]

My only gripe is that you did not post this earlier!

Does anyone know how to access this site? did they take it down?

Thanks

 

[Member4545]

Does anyone know how to access this site? did they take it down?

Thanks

I was wondering the same... I don't see anything helpful on the link...

 

[W19]

i am interested in what subjects are variable between 1st and 2nd years. anyone know what's common? for us:

1st year:
psych
neuro
histo
anatomy
biochem
physiology
embryo

2nd year:
pharm
path
micro
immuno

that's pretty standard, right? i just heard of someone taking anatomy 2nd year, and I was wondering what the possible variations are.

That seems standard to me with little variation at my school... switch immuno with behavioral science (psych)... Add 'clinical skills' 1st year and 'clinical diagnosis' second year....

 

[NeuroMaster316]

That seems standard to me with little variation at my school... switch immuno with behavioral science (psych)... Add 'clinical skills' 1st year and 'clinical diagnosis' second year....

I think the ship has sailed lol
But I'm interested in the neuroanatomy site like the rest, couldn't access it either.

 

[SoSimplyKari]

Here I thought I was just crazy not being able to find whatever was so amazing on that site.

 

[MetalloBetalactamase]

One site that's working is called DrawIttoKnowIt.com. I don't know if there's a fee with it, but it seems very useful for my professor's approach to Neuro.

 

[asundran]

We just made it through neuro, these are the resources I found helpful on the whole:

Dr. Najeeb videos - these get mixed reviews. They are *long.* For a medical student strapped for time, it can be a bit much. For example, he has a whole 1 hour video on just the arrangement of structures in the diencephalon. But if you sit through these, draw out the structures as he goes, by the end you should be golden. I picked the videos I thought were going to be high yield and the ones for complicated tracts, neuronal circuits, etc. He has a website you can get a subscription to (which I did shell out for since I used a ton if his videos). Otherwise, some are on youtube and others can be found with a little digging on the internet. Ones I recommend: basal ganglia, diencehalon sequence, brainstem anatomy, hypothalamus, visual system, and the cerebellum. If nothing else, his long track videos are gold (ascending tracts, descending motor tracts, upper and lower motor neurons and their lesions).

If you are an Anki user, here is my neuro block deck (~2700 cards). It includes sub decks specifically for gross anatomy of head and neck, neuroanatomy/lesions, neuro pharmacology/neurotransmitters. Other miscellaneous decks covering disorders, physical exam findings, psych, etc (these last few decks are mixed and kind of randomly organized by how my block progressed but reorganizing them shouldn't be that difficult).

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/373859588

This site is great for practicing the long tracts in the spinal cord and brainstem:
http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/animations/hyperbrain/pathways/

Great for coronal anatomy of the basal ganglia:
http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/Thalamus/thal.html

Great for learning brainstem cross-sectional anatomy:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rswenson/Atlas/BrainStem/

More brainstem cross-sectional anatomy plates:
http://www.bellarmine.edu/faculty/mwiegand/atlas/cover.html

Gold for learning the brainstem pathways and location of nuclei:
http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/virtualbrain/BrainStem/01Pyramid.html

Surface anatomy of the brainstem:
http://pmcanatomy.blogspot.com/2014/02/brainstem-neuroanatomy.html

Rule of 4 for Brainstem syndromes (first link is text explanation, second link has good images demonstrating location of tracts):
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/brainstem-rules-of-4/
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/the-rule-of-4-of-the-brainstem/

Common stroke syndromes (tracing the deficits back to location in the brainstem where the stroke occurred):


Labeled brain cross-sections:
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/HISTHTML/NEURANAT/NEURANCA.html

More brain cross-sections:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rswenson/Atlas/

Brain coronal cross-sections
http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/levels/thalamus/Level11.html
http://www.neuroanatomy.ca/interactive/coronal1a.html

Good brain/brainstem medical illustrations:
http://intranet.tdmu.edu.ua/data/kafedra/internal/anatomy/classes_stud/en/stomat/ptn/1/17. Medulla oblongata. Pons. Cerebellum. Fourth ventricle. Rhomboid fossa.htm

Somatosensory pathways for the face:
http://www.bioon.com/bioline/neurosci/course/face.html

35 practice lesion questions:
http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/natbrdrev/nbrbase1.htm

15 lesion practice cases:
http://learn.chm.msu.edu/neuropath/content/neuropath_cases/neuroanatomy_cases/Case1a.html

~50 practice lesion questions
http://tusm.temple.edu/neuroanatomy/lab/cs_quiz/index.html

Ipsilateral vs. contralateral facial nerve lesions:
http://www.usmle-forums.com/usmle-s...teral-versus-contralateral-neuro-lesions.html

~50 questions on lesions/CNS deficits and pathology
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/EXAM/MULTORG/cns1frm.htm

8 cases for CNS lesions with imaging correlation (go to this website and then hit interactive cases)
http://lesionlocalizer.com

Gross anatomy images/quiz for head and neck:
http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/haonline/quiz/practice/u5/quiztop5.htm

Differentiating the different types of strokes:
http://www.usmleforum.com/files/forum/2010/2/531182.php

Images that could be useful:

Various structures that are found in brain-stem cross-sections at different levels:

Common spinal cord lesions:

 

[Entadus]

^Wow thank you! Good timing