Anatomy of the nervous system. By Olof Larsell, M.A., Ph.D. Sc.D., Professor of anatomy, University of Oregon Medical School, Portland, Oregon. Introduction by A. T. Rasmussen, Ph.D. Second edition. Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., New York. 1951, xiv + 520 pp. $9.00
✍ Scribed by Oscar Sugar
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1951
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 128 KB
- Volume
- 95
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9967
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✦ Synopsis
I n this reorganized and rewritten edition, the author has given a gross anat,omic basis for minute neuroanatomy which follows. Descriptions of the meninges, structural elements of the nervous system, somatic and visceral receptors and effectors (with especial emphasis on the receptors in eye and ear), and development of the nervous system give other fundamental facts and concepts. A chapter on functional arrangements of neurons illustrates the basic reflex patterns in the growing individual. I n the chapter on spinal nerves and ganglia, there are shown not only the Foerster dermatomes of "remaining sensibility " but also the Keegan-Garrett dermatomes of "reduced sensibility, " which are so useful in clinical neurology. The visceral system, spinal cord, cranial nerves, medulla oblongata and the rest of the brain stem are described, followed by detailed chapters on the cerebrum and its cortex, the rhinencephalon, olfactory pathways, and functional localization in the lobes of the cerebrum. Functional comparison of the pyramidal and non-pyramidal systems is made in the chapter on cortical efferent pathways. The concluding chapter on the blood supply of the brain and spinal cord is new in this edition.
A number of the drawings and diagrams are new; others are the same as those in Larsell's sections of Schaeffer-Morris' Human Anatomy. Many of the cross-sections through the brain are from Toldt's Atlas, generally placed in the chapters wherein they are described. This arrangement, however, lacks the merit of the original atlas concept of showing successive sections in order. The arrangement of nuclei and cell groups in the modifications of Jacobsohn's figures are well labelled, but the actual appearance of the cells to aid in imdentifying them under the microscope is (as usual with most texts) not given. Actual cells are shown in figure 264, e.g., of dentate nucleus cells from the eat fetus, as usual taken from Cajal. Text and figures do not always agree. Thus, in the chapter on the thalamus the t,ext describes the thalamic nuclei antero-posteriorly, but the