Neuroanatomy

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The material contained in the Nervous System volumes on the Medicine Digital Learning site addresses fundamental concepts of Neuroanatomy and Basic Neurology that will serve to reinforce the content in FMS 512. These resources are supplemental but succinctly organized and include:

  • A review of nervous system development starting with neurulation, neural crest formation, and partitioning of the neural tube rostral tube into brain vesicles and common congenital defects.

  • A description of the meninges, ventricular system, and CSF production and reabsorption.

    Clinical applications include types of hydrocephalus, Chiari malformations, and pathologic CSF pressure changes.

  • A review of arterial supply to regions of cerebrum, brain stem, and cerebellum.

  • Functional description of the brain stem and cranial nerves,

    including the major nuclei within the brainstem, localization and function of the cranial nerves,  knowledge of the cranial nerve reflexes, and common lesions with their effects.

  • Description of the functions of cortical and brain stem

    as it relates to a loss of function due to ischemic damage from a thrombus in the anterior or posterior circulation. In other words, either cerebral or brain stem strokes and why you see specific symptoms.

  • Description of the information carried in the major sensory and motor pathways.

    This includes the anatomic structures that axons of passage synapse on in the CNS.

  • Cerebellar function and dysfunction tied to investigation of specific lesions of brain stem and cerebellum,

    and common clinical symptoms and/or syndromes associated with common brain lesions(a.k.a. an acoustic neuroma). Vestibular function as it relates to head movements and semicircular canals and a review of auditory anatomy from inner ear, including the central auditory pathway.

  • Neuroanatomy of the cerebrum, brain stem, and cerebellum.

Functional neuroanatomy

Labs

References

  1. Simon R et al. Clinical Neurology, 4e; 2018.
  2. Vanderah, TW. Nolte’s Essentials of the Human Brain, 2e; 2019.
  3. Waxman SG. Clinical Neuroanatomy, 28e; 2017.

  4. External Anatomy of the Brain, in Vanderah, Todd W., PhD, Nolte’s The Human Brain in Photographs and Diagrams, 5e; 2020.

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