Author : Rudolph C. Hatfield
Publisher :
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Brain
ISBN : 9781435165182
Learn how the brain communicates with each part of the body, how it affects your emotional life, why you dream, and how you remember things. And you'll also get in-depth descriptions of brain disorders and how science and medicine are working to heal or reverse them.--
Author : Todd W. Vanderah
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 2017-12-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0323568408
Extensively revised throughout, Nolte's Essentials of the Human Brain, 2nd Edition, offers a reader-friendly overview of neuroscience and neuroanatomy ideal for studying and reviewing for exams. Updated content, integrated pathology and pharmacology for a more clinical focus, and full-color illustrations make a complex subject easier to understand. Test and verify your knowledge with review questions, unlabelled drawings, and more. - Includes explanatory color illustrations and brain images that visually depict structure-function relationships and key neuroscience concepts. - Provides multiple-choice and comprehensive review questions with explanations that cover core topics, so you can test and develop your knowledge. - Includes student-friendly features, such as chapter outlines, key concept boxes, high-yield headings, study questions at the end of each chapter, a comprehensive quiz with clinical vignettes, and blank diagrams that can be used for labelling practice. - Focuses on the clinical aspects of the nervous system with updated neuroscience content, integrated pathology and pharmacology content, and more clinically relevant questions. - Student ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, references, and animations, designed to produce a more rounded learning experience.
Author : Anne G. Osborn
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0323713181
Designed to facilitate easier understanding of a complex subject, Essentials of Osborn's Brain: A Fundamental Guide for Residents and Fellows is a highly practical guide to neuroradiology by world-renowned expert Dr. Anne G. Osborn. This concise text is derived from Osborn's Brain, second edition, and contains the essential must-know information critical for residents and fellows in radiology, neuroradiology, and neurosurgery—all in a format that's ideal for study and daily reference. - Takes readers through the neuroimaging rotations of a radiology, neurosurgery, or neurology residency or fellowship via a "curriculum" of selected readings for each rotation - Includes a brief section for each of 4 resident years, which lists directed readings in the book as well as optional correlated content in STATdx and RADPrimer for each rotation - Combines gross pathology and imaging to clearly depict why diseases appear the way they do - Features more than 2,000 high-definition, state-of-the-art images with each one referenced to its corresponding descriptive location in the text - Features Dr. Osborn's trademark summary boxes throughout, allowing for quick review of essential facts - Includes updated information on brain tumor genetics, new tumors, and interim updates to the 2016 World Health Organization classification of CNS neoplasms - Presents new insights on autoimmune encephalitis, noninfectious CNS inflammation, and brain microbleeds, including critical-illness-associated microbleeds
Author : Todd W. Vanderah
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1455728608
Popular for its highly visual and easy-to-follow approach, Nolte's The Human Brain helps demystify the complexities of the gross anatomy of the brain, spinal cord and brainstem. A clear writing style, interesting examples and visual cues bring this extremely complicated subject to life and more understandable. - Get the depth of coverage you need with discussions on all key topics in functional neuroanatomy and neuroscience, giving you well-rounded coverage of this complex subject. - Zero in on the key information you need to know with highly templated, concise chapters that reinforce and expand your knowledge. - Develop a thorough, clinically relevant understanding through clinical examples providing a real-life perspective. - Gain a greater understanding of every concept through a glossary of key terms that elucidates every part of the text; 3-dimensional brain. - Acquaint yourself with the very latest advancements in the field with many illustrations using the most current neuroimaging techniques, reflecting recent developments and changes in understanding. - Keep up with the latest knowledge in neural plasticity including formation, modification, and repair of connections, with coverage of learning and memory, as well as the coming revolution in ways to fix damaged nervous systems, trophic factors, stem cells, and more. - NEW! Gauge your mastery of the material and build confidence with over 100 multiple choice questions that provide effective chapter review and quick practice for your exams. - Student Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, references, and videos from the book on a variety of devices.
Author : Rita Carter
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0241444098
This science ebook of award-wiining print edition uses the latest findings from neuroscience research and brain-imaging technology to take you on a journey into the human brain. CGI artworks and brain MRI scans reveal the brain's anatomy in unprecedented detail. Step-by-step sequences unravel and simplify the complex processes of brain function, such as how nerves transmit signals, how memories are laid down and recalled, and how we register emotions. The book answers fundamental and compelling questions about the brain: what does it means to be conscious, what happens when we're asleep,and are the brains of men and women different? Written by award-winning author Rita Carter, this is an accessible and authoritative reference book to a fascinating part of the human body. Thanks to improvements in scanning technology, our understanding of the brain is changing fast. Now in its third edition, the Brain Book provides an up-to-date guide to one of science's most exciting frontiers. With its coverage of over 50 brain-related diseases and disorders - from strokes to brain tumours and schizophrenia - it is also an essential manual for students and healthcare professionals.
Author : Peter Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135853843
The best popular introduction to the human brain and how to make the most of it!
Author : John Nolte
Publisher : Mosby
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN :
This title's clear narrative style and review questions allow you to test and verify your knowledge. The short length, full-color illustrations, and brain images make learning quick and easy.
Author : Ken Ashwell
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781420256840
The Brain Book investigates the amazingly complex and intriguing structure that is the human brain. Made up of billions of nerve cells, the brain controls our thoughts, movements, behaviour and emotions. This comprehensive book explores such diverse topics as how we sense the world, consciousness and memory, through to diseases and disorders, the ageing brain and spinal injury repair. Containing the latest medical research, The Brain Book explains in concise, clear language important health issues such as the effects of recreational drugs and medicines on the brain, strokes, tumours and the biological basis of mental illness. Hundreds of colour images, including stunning 3-D illustrations created exclusively for this book, reveal the intricate workings of the brain to show incredible details beyond what the eye can usually see.
Author : Phil Dobson
Publisher : Lid Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Brain
ISBN : 9781911687566
Your brain is your most valuable asset, and yet we are taught so little about it. The one thing that's involved in all your feelings, thoughts and actions, and you're never given the manual. Consequently few of us realize our potential. Recent developments in neuroscience demonstrate that your brain is like a muscle; you can increase your brain power, and even change and develop your brain over time. Grounded in scientific research, this book gives you 50 ways to get more from your brain. You'll gain an understanding of how your brain works and how you can boost your mental performance. You'll discover how to improve your focus and memory, and how you can enhance your problem-solving skills. You'll even learn how you can program your brain and keep it younger for longer.
Author : John Nolte
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0323087736
Master neurology with the help of Jack Nolte, PhD, recognized for his skill in communicating complicated neuroscience concepts. This book’s clear narrative style and review questions allow you to test and verify your knowledge. The short length, full-color illustrations, and brain images make learning quick and easy. Multiple-choice and comprehensive review questions, as well as blank diagrams you can use for labeling practice, help you study and reinforce what you have learned. This easy-to-read text, coupled with Student Consult online access, gives you an excellent overview of neuroscience and neuroanatomy for effective understanding of key information in studying and reviewing for exams. Provides the appropriate level of information to take the anxiety out of a complex subject. Offers an added level of understanding though explanatory color illustrations and brain images that visually depict structure-function relationships and key neuroscience concepts. Includes multiple-choice and comprehensive review questions with explanations that cover the core topics in the book so you can test and develop your knowledge. Features review tools, via Student Access.
