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by Joseph Hanaway, Thomas A. Woolsey, Mokhtar H. Gado, and Melville P. Roberts, Jr, 250 pp, cost not available, Bethesda, Md, Fitzgerald Science Press, Inc, 1998.

Arch Neurol. 1999;56:1298.

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The Brain Atlas: A Visual Guide to the Human Central Nervous System adds another volume to the library of atlases of the central nervous system (CNS) available to students of neuroanatomy, radiology, neuropathology, neurology, and neurosurgery. Although several strong CNS atlases are already on the medical text market, they each have unique strengths and weaknesses, forcing the anal-retentive neuroanatomist to purchase more than one to keep at his or her fingertips for reference.

This atlas is divided into logical sections, including "Vascular Supply," "Gross Sections," "Histological Sections," and "Pathways." The coronal, axial, and sagittal gross sections are all life-sized and paired either with corresponding magnetic resonance images or with diagrams of the vascular supply at that level. Structures on the gross sections are numbered, with the corresponding names on the facing page, allowing the reader to either identify the structure or test his or her knowledge. The "Pathways" section is . . . [Full Text of this Article]