Dr. Jacobson has taught neuroanatomy and gross anatomy for many years to medical and dental students at Tufts University School of Medicine, and an upper level biology course on the Central Nervous System to undergraduates at Tufts University in Medford, MA utilizing many of Dr. Marcus' cases to engage the students. He also has used several movies on the brain developed in Hollywood to further involve the students.

Dr. Pugsley is a senior neurosurgeon with extensive clinical and teaching experience. He trained in Neurosurgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. He observed that the inclusion of case history materials reinforces the basic science subject matter learned by markedly increasing the interest of the students in both basic and clinical science material. He has added many new cases and a neurosurgeons' prospective to disease.

Dr. Elliott M. Marcus, M.D. was the father of neurosciences at the Tufts University School of [...] his passing in 2011, we lost a dear friend, colleague, dynamic teacher, and an outstanding neurologist. We are using in this book many of the cases he developed to teach problem solving skills to medical students, dental students, and residents in neurology and medicine as they address disease in the CNS.

Provides updated core topics on Central Nervous System

Integrates basic sciences with neurological clinical cases containing MRI, CT and fMRI images

Definitive neuroanatomy text by one of the world's leading neuroanatomists

Part I-Central nervous system.- Chapter 1. Introduction to the Anatomy and the Functional Localization within the Central Nervous System.- Chapter 2. Neurocytology: Cells of the CNS.- Chapter 3. Neuroembryology and Congenital Malformations.- Chapter 4. Spinal Cord.- Chapter 5. Brain Stem: Gross Anatomy.- Chapter 6. Brain Stem Functional Localization.- Chapter 7. The Cranial Nerves.- Chapter 8. Diencephalon .- Chapter 9. Hypothalamus, Neuroendocrine System, and Autonomic Nervous System.- Chapter 10. Cerebral Cortex Functional Localization.- Part II - Systems.-Chapter 11. Motor System, Movement, and Motor Pathways.- Chapter 12. Motor System II: Basal Ganglia.- Chapter 13. Motor Systems III: The Cerebellum Movement and Major Fiber Pathways of the Cerebellum.- Chapter 14. Somatosensory Functions and the Parietal Lobe.- Chapter 15. Visual System and Occipital Lobe.- Chapter 16. The Limbic System - Temporal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex, and Learning, Memory and Emotions.- Chapter 17. Higher Cortical Functions.- Part III - The Non-Nervous Elements.-Chapter 18. NON-NERVOUS ELEMENTS IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.- Chapter 19. Trauma, Neoplasms, and Communicable Diseases.- Part IV - NEUROPATHOLOGY.- Chapter 20. TEACHING CASES.- Chapter 21. Movies on the Brain.- Part V - Atlas of the Brain.- Chapter 22. MRI & DTI Images.- Chapter 23. Descriptive Atlas of Stained Brain Sections.- Chapter 24. Myelin-Stained.