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• Cover image
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Preface to the sixth edition
• Preface to the first edition
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction and overview
• Neuroanatomical terminology and conventions
• Components and organisation of the nervous system
• Development of the central nervous system
• Overview of the anatomy of the central nervous system
• Basic clinical diagnostic principles
• 2 Cells of the nervous system
• The neurone
• Neuroglia
• 3 Peripheral nervous system
• Muscle
• Nerve endings
• Peripheral nerves
• 4 Autonomic nervous system
• Sympathetic division
• Parasympathetic division
• 5 Coverings of the central nervous system
• Skull
• Cranial meninges
• 6 Ventricular system
• Topographical anatomy of the ventricular system
• Cerebrospinal fluid
• 7 Vasculature of the central nervous system
• Vasculature of the spinal cord
• Vasculature of the brain
• 8 Spinal cord
• External features of the spinal cord
• Internal structure of the spinal cord
• 9 Brainstem
• External features of the brainstem
• Internal structure of the brainstem
• 10 Cranial nerves and cranial nerve nuclei
• Cranial nerve nuclei
• Cranial nerves
• 11 Cerebellum
• External features of the cerebellum
• Internal structure of the cerebellum
• Functional anatomy of the cerebellum
• 12 Thalamus
• Topographical anatomy of the thalamus
• Functional organisation of thalamic nuclei
• 13 Cerebral hemisphere and cerebral cortex
• Gyri, sulci and lobes of the cerebral hemisphere
• Cerebral cortex
• White matter of the cerebral hemisphere
• 14 Basal ganglia
• Terminology and topographical anatomy of the basal ganglia
• Functional anatomy of the basal ganglia
• 15 Visual system
• The eye
• The central visual pathway
• 16 Hypothalamus, limbic system and olfactory system
• Hypothalamus
• Limbic system
• Olfactory system
• Glossary
• Index