(Fundamental and Clinical)
Ninth Edition
Revised and Edited by PRITHA S BHUIYAN MBBS MS (Anatomy) PGDME Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
LAKSHMI RAJGOPAL MBBS MS (General Surgery) DNB (Anatomy) MNAMS (Anatomy) Professor (Additional), Department of Anatomy Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
K SHYAMKISHORE MBBS MS (Anatomy) Professor (Additional), Department of Anatomy Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Textbook of Human Neuroanatomy
First Edition | : 1997 |
Seventh Edition | : 2006 |
Reprint | : 2008 |
Eighth Edition | : 2009 |
Reprint | : 2010 |
Revised & Updated Eighth Edition | : 2013 |
Ninth Edition | : 2014 |
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5Preface to the Ninth Edition
Professor Inderbir Singh has been a doyen in the field of Anatomy, and he has been looked upon as a guide and mentor by many students and teachers. So, it is indeed a great honour for us to edit the ninth edition of ‘Inderbir Singh's Textbook of Human Neuroanatomy (Fundamental and Clinical). While editing this book has provided us an opportunity to revisit neuroanatomy, we have enjoyed this relook thoroughly.
To highlight what the students should learn from each chapter, ‘Specific Learning Objectives’ have been added. A comprehensive rearrangement of chapters has been done to make it easy for the students to understand the subject. Important clinical conditions are given as ‘Clinical Correlation’ in Boxes. Validated ‘Multiple Choice Questions’ have been added at the end of each chapter for self-assessment. New diagrams and photographs of dissected and plastinated specimens have been incorporated to make it reader friendly. New tables and flow charts have been inserted for making comprehension of neuroanatomy easy. The chapter on ‘Imaging Techniques of the Central Nervous System’ is updated completely keeping in mind the emerging trends in newer imaging techniques.
We are grateful to the Dean, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, for giving us the permission to edit this book. We are also thankful to Dr HD Deshmukh, Professor and Head, Department of Radiology for providing us CT scans and MRI scans. Our special acknowledgement to Mr. Prashant Jadhav for helping us with the photography. Our special thanks to all our students for making us take up this challenging task despite our academic and administrative responsibilities. We thank our family members for their continued support.
We hope that this edition will be useful to the students and teachers interested in neuroanatomy, and we welcome feedback from the readers to improve future editions.
Pritha S Bhuiyan, Lakshmi Rajgopal, K Shyamkishore
7Foreword (to the Eighth Edition)
My tryst with Neuroanatomy began in earnest as a postgraduate. But the seeds were sown as an undergraduate 1st year medical student. Today, as I stand on the verge of superannuation, having taught neuroanatomy for the last 40 years, I have been asked to write a foreword for Prof. Inderbir Singh's revised and updated reprint of 8th edition of the Textbook of Human Neuroanatomy for the undergraduate medical students which brings me to a full circle. I tried to recall, as an undergraduate, what is it that would have enticed me to read a neuroanatomy book. As I began pouring through the pages of Prof. Inderbir Singh's textbook, I found the answers—the easy readable style, the sifting of the essentials for a student to comprehend a majorly complex subject and the simple, easily reproducible illustrations. It is these qualities which form the backbone of this treatise that seem to have attracted the student to this book and made it a popular reading for the 1st year medical student for the last so many years.
Prof. Inderbir Singh's unending zeal and love for the students has made us see eight editions of the book with each one adding a new facet. In this revised and updated reprint of eighth edition too one sees many more illustrations for better understanding of the subject. I am sure the students are going to find as always that the book is updated, explanatory and relevant to meet their requirements.
SHASHI WADHWA ms, phd
Dean, Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
E-mail: dean@aiims.ac.in
9Preface to the Eighth Edition
I have great pleasure in presenting the eighth edition of TEXTBOOK OF HUMAN NEUROANATOMY.
As in previous editions, the main effort has been to present a complicated subject in as simple a manner as possible. The major problem that faces the author of any student textbook is to decide just how much to include out of the limitless volume of information available. Some facts are such that no student can afford to be without them. However, these essentials are often wrapped up in a huge mass of detail which often serves only to obscure the important principles relevant to future clinical studies. It is for this reason that, in this edition, essential matter is clearly demarcated from more advanced detail. Clinical matter is similarly demarcated.
In this edition the book has been given a strong clinical orientation which will appeal specially to advanced students.
I am much obliged to Shri Jitendar P Vij, Group Chairman, M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, for being always extremely helpful and accommodating. His hard work and pleasant nature make him a delight to work with.
I continue to be obliged to Prof SC Srivastava, and Dr RK Yadav for very kindly providing a number of photographs.
As always, I am deeply indebted to readers who have sent words of encouragement and suggestions for improvement. I am grateful to all students who have read this book, because without them the book would have no reason to exist.
Inderbir Singh