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This new title in the best-selling Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews series presents essential coverage of neuroscience, focusing on topics related to human health and disease. Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews:  Neuroscience includes the popular features of the series: abundance of full-color, annotated illustrations chapter overviews expanded outline format chapter summaries and review questions that link basic science to real-life clinical situations. The book can be used as a text for a stand-alone neuroscience/neuroanatomy course in medical, health professions, and upper-level undergraduate programs or as a review for boards.  A companion website features the fully searchable online text, an interactive Question Bank for students, animations, and an Image Bank for instructors to use to create PowerPoint presentations. Salient Features Enables rapid review and assimilation of large amounts of complex information through signature outline format Includes online ancillaries such as the Faculty Image Bank For Students: online text, animations, and USMLE Question Bank Distills core concepts through chapter-opening overviews and end-of-chapter summaries Prepares students for the course and national exams with clinical vignettes and board-style review questions in each chapter Follows the standard approach and expanded outline format of the Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews series Visually explains concepts with full-color, annotated illustrations and color-coded tables Highlights key words in boldface, while introducing new vocabulary and defining abbreviations Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to the Nervous System and Basic Neurophysiology Chapter 2: Overview the Central Nervous System Chapter 3: Overview of the Peripheral Nervous System Chapter 4: The Visceral Nervous System Chapter 5: The Spinal Cord Chapter 6: Overview and Organization of the Brainstem Chapter 7: Overview of Ascending Sensory Tracts Chapter 8: Overview of Descending Motor Tracts Chapter 9: Control of Eye Movements Chapter 10: Sensory and Motor Innervation of the Head and Neck Chapter 11: Hearing and Balance Chapter 12: Brainstem Systems and Review Chapter 13: The Cerebral Cortex Chapter 14: The Thalamus Chapter 15: The Visual System Chapter 16: Control of Movement: The Basal Ganglia Chapter 17: Control of Movement: The Cerebellum Chapter 18: The Integration of Motor Control Chapter 19: Overview of the Hypothalamus Chapter 20: Overview of the Limbic System Chapter 21: Olfactory and Gustatory Systems Chapter 22: Pain