Purpose and Plan This atlas, though primarily intended for medical students, mayaiso be expected to This atlas has been designed with the object be useful as a quick pictorial review for of providing a comprehensive pictorial practitioners in the various neurological survey of the macroscopic and microscopic SClences. structure of the human central nervous s- tem. The pictorial material encompasses 154 Material, Techniques, and Preparation half-tone and li ne drawings, all derived of the Illustrations from original macroscopic and microscopic preparations. Considerable thought has The gross anatomical section of this atlas been given in the preparation of these draw is based on eight brains and one spinal cord of adult individuals with no record of n- ings to an optimal combination of c1arity and exactness. Moreover great pains have rological diseases. These specimens were been taken to achieve a maximal coherence fixed for at least two months in formalin. of thematically related figures. The illustra One specimen was used for the illustrations tions are arranged in four sections. The first showing the external morphology. This section depicts the gross appearance and brain was then serially sliced into 2-mm three-dimensional structure of the brain thick sections in the coronal plane. Three and spinal cord. The second section in other brains were sliced in the three other c1udes dra wings of a number of wh oIe brain conventional planes: sagittal, horizontal slices, sectioned in four different directions.
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Purpose and Plan.- Material, Techniques, and Preparation of the Illustrations.- Annotations.- Terminology, Abbreviations, and Labelling.- Acknowledgements.- I Gross Anatomy.- Orientation.- External and Medial Views.- Internal Structures.- II Brain Slices.- Coronal Sections.- Sections Perpendicular to the Axis of the Brain Stem.- Sagittal Sections.- Horizontal Sections.- III Microscopical Sections.- Coronal Sections Through the Basal Part of the Prosencephalon.- Transverse Sections Through the Brain Stem and Spinal Cord.- IV Functional Systems.- Cranial Nerve Nuclei in the Brain Stem.- General Sensory Systems and Taste.- The Anterolateral System.- The Medial Lemniscus System.- The Trigeminal System.- The Visceral Afferent Systems.- Special Sensory Systems.- The Vestibular System.- The Auditory System.- The Visual System.- Ascending Reticular System.- The Reticular Formation.- Ascending Reticular Pathways.- Cerebellum.- Thalamocortical and Corticothalamic Connections.- Motor Systems.- Long Corticofugal Pathways.- The So-called Extrapyramidal System.- Descending Reticular Systems.- Descending Pathways and the Medial Reticular Formation.- Descending Pathways and the Lateral Reticular Formation.- Olfactory and Limbic Systems.- Long Association and Commissural Connections.- Monoamine Neuron Systems.- Dopaminergic Cell Groups and Pathways.- Noradrenergic Cell Groups and Pathways.- Serotonergic Cell Groups and Pathways.- References.- Abbreviations.