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By Murray L Barr, MD. Price, $17.50. Pp 413, with 233 illustrations. Harper & Row Publishers Inc, 2350 Virginia Ave, Hagerstown, Md 21740, 1972.

Michael D. Gershon, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1972;27(2):192.

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This is an introductory book intended for students of medicine and allied health sciences. As such, it attempts to cope with the particular difficulty that the necessity of thinking in three dimensions presents for novices in neurosciences. The anatomy is presented regionally and is then reviewed systemically. An introductory section deals with neurohistology and a concluding section with the blood supply of brain, with the meninges, and with cerebrospinal fluid. The good features of the book are its clarity of style, simplification, and understandable figures. Its weakness is that it does not seem very complete or very current. The section on neurohistology includes some electron microscopy, but the treatment is cursory. Recent developments concerning components of the autonomic nervous system are not mentioned. The sections reviewing the systems suffer from the brevity of the functional treatment. In sum, this book might serve well a medical curriculum which aims at rapidly . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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