Manter and Gatz's Essentials of Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology, 10th Edition

by Sid Gilman, Sarah Winans Newman

This classic student-friendly text provides a concise, comprehensive, and clinically-oriented survey of the human nervous system. It's helpful to any student of basic neuroscience, as well as residents and physicians preparing for board examinations.

281 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1991

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gave 2 stars because it's factually accurate--otherwise would have given one. The text takes a field I'm passionate about and reduces it to an unnecessary slog through undefined terms and relationships. I can't remember the last time I ran into a technical text without a glossary, but this is one (and it has an incomplete index). Heading structure also has shaky levels of hierarchy, making it difficult to follow which concepts belong together.

I came in to the class using this text with no little amount of pre-existing knowledge of neurological anatomy and physiology, yet I was having such a hard time getting myself through this text that I went and looked up which Neuro texts are used in other courses. I then rented a second text for the class.

Clarity of structure, defined terms, succinct internal headings, and readable diagrams placed near their textual references would go a long way to improving the usability of the text, but the most glaring needs are for a glossary and a complete index.