Neurological Anatomy in Relation to Clinical Medicine

This is a "practical" neuroanatomy in the sense that its purpose is to relate neuroanatomy to clinical medicine rather than to serve as a descriptive text of an anatomic field. This approach also requires the introduction of as much physiologic as strictly anatomic material. Approaches of this sort pose a difficult task for an author. Physiology is a rapidly changing field and it is not surprising that Brodal's text, the original edition of which was prepared during the war years and in an area deprived of much of the new literature, should already be somewhat outdated. In this English edition the author has been able to introduce a certain amount of recent material, but an underlying earlier structure is still apparent. The author's choice of physiologic material was so sound fundamentally that as the text now stands additions rather than basic changes are presently required. Judgment is in fact the