- Detailed images of an individual brain showing detailed grey and white matter anatomy
- Demonstration of inter-relationships between grey matter and white matter tracts and cortical and nuclear terminations
- Atlas of brainstem nuclei and the relevant brainstem connections
The dogma that brain function relied on the cortex has dominated clinical neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry for the last 100 years.
Since the start of the 2000s, it has become evident that brain function is orchestrated as a network through white matter connections. This framework provides an understanding of brain function and dysfunction, and has radically changed how neurosurgical resections are performed. There is currently no manual for clinicians to visualize this functional anatomy in a fast, easy and user-friendly way.
This is particularly important for senior clinicians who may have an understanding of cortical anatomy but may struggle with newly described white matter connections as they may now be visualized with MRI, and also for trainees who are learning the subject of applied neuro-anatomy. With this book, we aim to bridge this gap.
In 1995 Jackson and Duncan produced "MRI Neuroanatomy: a new angle on the brain" using the best clinical MRI available at the time and did not demonstrate white matter tracts. This was very well received, and it is time now to produce an atlas that shows the 3D anatomy of gray and white matter to contemporary standards.
Table of ContentsIntroduction to three dimensional anatomy.- 3-dimensional anatomy of the cerebral hemisphere.- 3-dimensional anatomy of the deep nuclei.- 3-dimensional anatomy of the brainstem and cerebellum. 3-dimensional anatomy of brainstem and cerebellar nuclei.- Axial slices of cerebral hemisphere: AC-PC orientation.- Coronal slices of cerebral hemisphere: AC-PC orientation.- Sagittal slices of cerebral hemisphere.- Axial slices of cerebral hemisphere: Hippocampal orientation.- Coronal slices of cerebral hemisphere: Hippocampal orientation.- Axial slices of brainstem and cerebellum: AC-PC orientation.- Coronal slices of brainstem and cerebellum: AC-PC orientation.- Sagittal slices of brainstem and cerebellum.- Introduction to individual tracts in the brain.- Arcuate fasciculus.- Inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus.- Uncinate fasciculus.- Third branch of the superior longitudinal fasciculus.- Second branch of the superior longitudinal fasciculus.- First branch of the superior longitudinal fasciculus.- Posterior segment of the arcuate fasciculus.- Middle longitudinal fasciculus.- Inferior longitudinal fasciculus.- Temporal longitudinal fasciculus.
