Contents:

Approach to Learning Neurosciences

Clinical Cases

Listing of Cases

Index

Fifty high-yield clinically-oriented neuroscience cases, each with USMLE-format review questions, help medical students excel in coursework and improve their course-exam and USMLE Step 1 scores. Common terms and phrases: acetylcholine action potential activity afferent auditory axon basal ganglia bilateral brain brainstem cause cell body central nervous system cerebellar cerebellum cerebral cerebral cortex CLINICAL CORRELATION COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS contralateral cortex cortical corticospinal tract cranial damage decreased depolarization diagnosed disease disorder dopamine dorsal excitatory eye movements factors fibers frontal lobe function ganglion gland glial gyrus hemisphere hormone hypothalamus increased inhibition inhibitory injury innervate input involved ion channels ipsilateral Kandel E lateral lesion located loss McGraw-Hill mechanism medial membrane potential migration motor neurons muscle myelin nerve neural tube Neuroscience NEUROSCIENCE PEARLS neurotransmitter neurulation normal nucleus occurs olfactory optic pain parasympathetic pathway patient peripheral pituitary posterior postganglionic postsynaptic proteins receptors reflex regeneration release responsible result Schwann cells sensory signals spinal cord stem cells stimulates structures substantia nigra sympathetic symptoms synaptic cleft synaptic vesicles temporal thalamus tion treatment trophic tumor types visual field voltage-gated