tips for studying the brainstem?

[axeon123]

i'm not good at memorizing stuffs, especially the brainstem slices. any tips for tackling this? there's six slices in the brainstem and taken out of context and just looking at the slices themselves, it just looks like a bunch of stuff to me.

i should rephrase it a little bit. i know what the tract does and what the nucleus does (eg what happens if lesion of the tract here, etc), but i don't know where it is on the brainstem. kinda hard to memorize where it is.

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[IMGUSMLEStep1]

Repitition! I also find it hard to memorize the locations of nuclei and tracts in the brainstem. You just have to go over it every day until it sticks. Use the pictures in High Yield Neuroanatomy.
1. Go over all of the structures.
2. Test yourself by covering the labels.
3. Read the label and try to find it on an unlabelled image (you'll need something other than HY Neuro for this step).

 

[MilkmanAl]

Repetition is definitely key. I'm going to use Haines's neuro atlas which has *great* pictures and nice, brief summaries of what each cross-section shows.

 

[username456789]

http://isc.temple.edu/neuroanatomy/lab/atlas/C1/

Quiz yourself.

 

[axeon123]

🙁 I'm going to have to take in some of the more high-yielding stuff, then. Tooooo much stuff!

http://isc.temple.edu/neuroanatomy/lab/atlas/C1/

Quiz yourself.

thanks. looks like a good site!

 

[Nesiritide]

The rule of 4 of the brainstem: a simplified method for understanding brainstem anatomy and brainstem vascular syndromes for the non-neurologist by P. Gates

I thought this article was awesome for understanding brainstem lesions and their clinical manifestations. Read it with an atlas and look at pictures, understand it, and you should be golden.

 

[lemontilt]

Do you think I shuld learn locations of all the nuclei ? Because it seem too much work to me. Are there any Qs in the exam describing a clinical vignette, showing a brain stem slide and asking "what is the name of this structure?" . Or, worse, showing the structure and asking the symptom ?

 

[Sheldor]

Are there any Qs in the exam describing a clinical vignette, showing a brain stem slide and asking "what is the name of this structure?" . Or, worse, showing the structure and asking the symptom ?

ABSOLUTELY! Whether or not you want to learn it for a few questions is up to you!

 

[lemontilt]

ABSOLUTELY! Whether or not you want to learn it for a few questions is up to you!

Thanks for the answer. Though now I know I have to go through them all over again 🙁