Four introductory chapters provide a foundation on the clinical interview, neurological examination, and imaging studies, so that an integrated approach is feasible from the very start-even (especially) for first- and second-year medical students, for whom this book is likely to become a standard text. This feat has been achieved through a counterpoint between “Anatomical and Clinical Review” and “Clinical Cases” sections. The unique and innovative qualities of the book lie not only in the clarity of its text and the beauty of its illustrations, but also in its ability to seamlessly weave the descriptive with the functional, or the physiological with the clinically relevant. And achieve it, this book spectacularly has. Neuroanatomy Through Clinical Cases fits squarely within such a tradition, making it patently clear that an entirely new textbook on something as old and unchanging as the human body and brain can be achieved. As the Visible Human project has successfully demonstrated, progress in imaging techniques and the endless possibilities offered by cyberspace have led to novel and exciting ways of teaching and revisiting anatomy. Neuroanatomy texts can be especially enthralling to neophytes, but by the same token can turn them away from neuroscience if coming across as dry, unengaging, or irrelevant.
Starting with Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543), anatomy texts have challenged in a fundamental way our understanding of the human body and determined how students are introduced to its wonders.
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