The Sheep Brain: A Photographic Series

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Summary: Sheep brain lab manual
Review: An excellent manual. The manual provides sagittal, horizontal and coronal views of the sheep brain, with slices that are of excellent quality. In addition, there are gross dissections that allow students an excellent understanding of the relations between the basic structures of the ventral brain. Most of us who get sheep brains for our labs from laboratory supply houses can only dream of the cranial nerves shown in clear detail here. At the University of Guelph, we are one of the few holdout universities that offer the sheep brain dissection to large introductory biopsychology classes, and although excellent photographic series are available on the Web, nothing can replace actually going through a sheep brain. This manual is very, very helpful in this pursuit. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Crucial for a sheep neurodissection
Review: First off, you will also want The Sheep Brain: A Basic Guide
by Richard K. Cooley to go along with this. This book is more lab-manual style then the other book, but has the same great qualities - it is meant to be right by your side when you are dissecting, not in the library. If you're concerned, i\t's easy to photocopy for personal use. The main thing I like about this and the other book is that the price is right for any budget. You shouldn't have to pay more for the book than you do for the brains :)