Barr's The Human Nervous System: An Anatomical Viewpoint, Ninth Edition

This classic, succinct, well-illustrated textbook simplifies neuroscience content to focus coverage on the essentials and helps students learn important neuroanatomical facts and definitions. Descriptions and illustrations of the regional anatomy of the central nervous system are followed by accounts of the functional pathways. The level of treatment is suited to increasingly shorter neuroanatomy courses for medical and allied health students.

The Ninth Edition features new and improved artwork, updates in current trends and terminology, and additions/updates to the Cranial Nerves chapter and Cells of the Nervous System chapter.

A companion Website offers online text, more than 450 interactive multiple-choice review questions, case studies, glossary, eponyms, abbreviations, an expanded version of selected chapters, and images from the book.

Customer Reviews:

poor text

By Browneyes1981 - January 17, 2011

very dense and hard to read text. If you are a beginner in neuroanatomy this would not be a good book for you. It is more of a review instead of a primary source for learning neuroanatomy

Not ideal for the first time Neuro Student

By David - November 16, 2010

This text was assigned by my Neuro prof for Neuroanatomy in medical school. It is dense, hard to read through, and is not an enjoyable read by any stretch. Use this book as a reference, but for a much better read, go for Lange neuro board review book.

excellent

By Philip Fabrizio "pafabpt" - September 9, 2007

This book presents neuroscience from an anatomical perspective. It is clear and concise and is appropriate for all levels of learners. The anatomical perspective of photographs and charts provides a level of clarity for all visual learners while the text provides wonderful in- depth descriptions of all pertinent structures.