Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple (3rd Edition; Book & CD-ROM)

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Summary: Thank heaven for this book
Review: In my graduate Neuropsychology course, we were expected to already be familiar with brain anatomy. I wasn't. This book gave me a wonderful quick review and served as a reference through the rest of the course when I needed clarification on the location or purpose of a given structure. It is so well written in an easy-to-read style that it deserves a Pulitzer.

Rating:
Summary: Thank heaven for this book
Review: In my graduate Neuropsychology course, we were expected to already be familiar with brain anatomy. I wasn't. This book gave me a wonderful quick review and served as a reference through the rest of the course when I needed clarification on the location or purpose of a given structure. It is so well written in an easy-to-read style that it deserves a Pulitzer.

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Summary: Simple with a capital S.
Review: Prof Goldberg made a subject that has so far had the clarity of mud as clear as glass. I understand more after 2 days reading this book than I did after 2 months of lectures and labs.

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Summary: For neuroanatomy courses and Board review.
Review: This now-classic text (over 300,000 copies sold) presents the most relevant points in clinical neuroanatomy with mnemonics, humor and case presentations. For neuroanatomy courses and Board review.

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Summary: For neuroanatomy courses and Board review.
Review: This now-classic text presents the most relevant points in clinical neuroanatomy with mnemonics, humor and case presentations. For neuroanatomy courses and Board review.

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Summary: Superficial explanations, too small in size, disorganized.
Review: Well the thing about this book is that it really is not organized very well. So if you think that you're going to feel like your reading microbiology MRS book and getting that feeling like your really learning easily from it forget it. That is what I thought.
They book can get you frustrated at many pages and areas as you're reading it because it only explains crucial stuff superficially. I really liked the CD that came with it tho.
Although over simplistic; but builds up your confidence; so I really use the CD, I liked the CD even more then the book itself; you should read the book first to get the most out of the CD that comes with it. You need a nice atlas of neuroanatomy when reading this book....
Once you get to the end of this book and use the CD you feel better about it, you're feeling a little better by then but it's so weird the side of the book its so small does not give you enough room to add notes to it. The drawings are too small and not really enough to be considered good for the reader; you really get a little lost easily here and there when trying to follow the stuff that it tells you to look at in the text.
The pictures that it tells you to follow are misplaced in the pages...
They could be better positioned.
And also it does not explain stuff very well I mean if he just stretched out more when he's already explaining something it would be great, like when he talked about the brown sequad syndrome I had to read it elsewhere because I did not get the picture from reading his book alone of what that was.
Although the author tries to convey the message in an easy way, that makes it undemanding for you to understand it, the disorganization and the lack of explanations on some areas don't make this book thorough...
That's why the FA book rates it as a B book and not as an A book like it does for HY neuroanatomy.
I prefer this book's format tho then HY neuroanatomy but the quality of this book in several aspects could be so much improved.
The author should for his 4th edition pay a little more attention to the overall shape of the book and break down all the stuff that he's trying to explain; like really talk to the students; don't mind it's size that it might get to be, the important thing should be that then you can easily follow a very hard subject, such as neuroanatomy. In order to make its ratings go up, the size of the book should increase in size.
It will make it easier for us to follow and add notes, y?know graphs and all?
Meaning that this book has some flaws right that could be fixed very easily, overall you need a really nice neuroanatomy atlas to get the most out of this book.
It really stresses you out trying to read through those small letterings and the small drawings and so forth and so on.
It's already got its way cutout for to being an A+ rated book...
Just needs a little more shaping in place especially with the length of its explanations too and the size of the book which I think should be about the size of the same book from the series microbiology made ridiculously simple for in that way it would be easier to look at the hand made drawings plus the fact that we could add notes to it.
thereza,Recife,Pernambuco.
Brazil.

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Summary: A Truly Great Book
Review: Without question, this is one of the best books ever written for medical students or anyone else struggling through neurosciences. It miraculously removes the tedious details of this important topic and instead focuses on clinically relevant information in an effort to maximize understanding and minimize memorization. Despite the somewhat simplistic treatment of an otherwise complicated topic, the reader will finish this book with a complete working understanding of neuroanatomy, including a detailed and intimate knowledge of the spinal cord and brainstem. Really, there is no better book... and as a physician now I have returned to read it several more times since graduating from med school. If you don't have it... get it!