Introduction and reader's guide - including rationale for labels and abbreviations; external morphology of the central nervous system - the spinal cord - gross views and vasculature, the brain - gross views, vasculature, and MRI, the cranial nerves in MRI, the insula - cross view and MRI, the meninges and ventricles; dissections of the central nervous system - lateral, medial, and ventral aspects, overall view; internal morphology of the brain in slices and MRI - brain slices in the coronal plane with MRI, brain slices in the axial plane with MRI; internal morphology of the spinal cord and brain in stained sections -the spinal cord, arterial patterns within the spinal cord, the degenerated corticospinal tract, the medulla oblongata, arterial patterns within the medulla oblongata, the cerebellar nuclei, the pons, arterial patterns within the pons, the midbrain, arterial patterns within the midbrain, the diencephalon and basal ganglia, arterial patterns within the forebrain; internal morphology of the brain in stained section - axial-sagittal correlations with MRI -axial-sagittal correlations; synopsis of functional components, tracts, pathways, and systems - components of cranial an spinal nerves, orientation, sensory pathways, motor pathways, cerebellum and basal ganglia, optic, auditory, and vestibular systems, limbic system; anatomical-clinic correlations - cerebral angiogram, MRA, and MRV. Sources and suggested readings.
