The Human Brain and Spinal Cord by Lennart Heimer

The Human Brain and Spinal Cord by Lennart Heimer

This book was written to serve both as a guide for the dissection of the human brain and as an illustrated compendium of the functional anatomy of the brain and spinal cord. In this sense, the book represents an updated and expanded version of the book The Human Brain and Spinal Cord written by the author and published in Swedish by Scandinavian University Books in 1961. The complicated anatomy of the brain can often be more easily appreciated and understood in relation to its development. Some insight about the coverings of the brain will also make the brain dissections more meaningful. Introductory chapters on these subjects constitute Part I of the book. Part 2 is composed of the dissection guide, in which text and illustrations are juxtaposed as much as possible in order to facilitate the use of the book in the dissection room.The method of dissection is similar to dissection proce- dures used in many medical schools throughout the world, and variations of the technique have been published by several authors including Ivar Broman in the Manniskohjarnan (The Human Brain) published by Gleerups F6rlag, Lund, 1926, and Laszlo Komaromy in Dissection of the Brain, published by Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1947. The great popularity of the CT scanner justifies an extra laboratory session for the comparison of nearly horizontal brain sections with matching CT scans.

Lennart Heimer, MD (1930-2007) was renowned in two related spheres: neuroanatomy education and research on the brain's limbic structures.

He harbored an indefatigable commitment to medical education in the neurosciences. Both editions of his textbook for medical students, The Human Brain and Spinal Cord: Functional Neuroanatomy and Dissection Guide, are regarded as among the most lucid available accounts of this difficult subject. Dr.
Heimer served for many years on the editorial boards of The Journal of Comparative Neurology and Neuroscience. His series of books on experimental neuroanatomical methods, Neuroanatomical Tract-tracing Methods, is a standard reference among working neuroscientists. Dr. Heimer's acclaimed series of
teaching videotapes and DVDs demonstrating the prosected human brain, which emerged out of now locally legendary sessions with neurology and neurosurgery residents at the University of Virginia, have been acquired by generations of students, neuroscientists, and clinicians. He was vigorously pursued
throughout his career as a lecturer in university, clinic, and workshop settings worldwide.

Dr. Heimer's research focus was the neuroanatomy of the brain's limbic structures. Upon completing training in medicine at the University of Gothenburg, he was recruited in 1965 to the Department of Psychology and Brain Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He had developed what was,
at the time, the most sensitive silver method to map the pathways of nerve fibers in the brain and soon formulated revolutionary new concepts about the basic organization and connectivity of brain structures that regulate emotions and motivation. Concepts conceived in his laboratory, first at MIT
and later in the Neurosurgery and Neuroscience departments at the University of Virginia, have served for more than 30 years to energize inquiry in the basic and clinical neurosciences in subdisciplines ranging from drug abuse research to neuropsychiatry. Dr. Heimer's early work is widely recognized
as providing the conceptual basis for the subsequent elaboration of segregated, parallel cortico-subcortical reentrant pathways, which are presently utilized as surgical and pharmacotherapeutic targets in the treatment of diverse neurological and neuropsychiatric brain conditions, from Parkinson's
disease to drug abuse, to obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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ISBN 13	9780387907406
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Titel	The Human Brain and Spinal Cord
Autor	Lennart Heimer
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Erscheinungsjahr	1983-09-01
Seitenanzahl	413
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