The Brain Atlas provides students of medicine and neuroscience, and health care professionals, with a complete, accurate and breathtakingly beautiful picture of the human brain. Prepared by renowned sholars and clinicians to exacting standards and drawing on classical neuroanatomical sections, state-of-the-art neuroimaging, and cutting-edge computer design, The Brian Atlas will become an essential reference for all who seek to understand the human brain.
Joseph Hanaway, MD has more than 25 years experience as a practicing neurologist and has taught basic and clinical Neuroanatomy at Harvard University, the University of Virginia, Washington University, and the University of Missouri Schools of Medicine.
Thomas A. Woolsey, MD is a world renowned neurobiologist best known for his discovery of the cortical barrels in rodents. Since his appointment at Washington University School of Medicine 25 years ago, he has won numerous awards for his teaching to medical students, residents, and undergraduates in Psychology and the Life Sciences.
Mokhtar H. Gado, MD is an internationally known neuroreadiologist with over 30 years of clinical and teaching experience at Washington School of Medicine and the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. Dr. Gado prepared the MRIs used throughout this book.
Melville P. Roberts, Jr., MD is the William Beecher Scoville Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He has taught Neuroanatomy to medical students and practiced neurosurgery for over 30 years.