ATLAS OF NEUROANATOMY

ATLAS OF NEUROANATOMY By Joseph J. Warner 2001. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann Price £90. pp. 676. ISBN 0750672501As stated in the Foreword by Dr M. A. Samuels, Joseph Warner’s Atlas of Neuroanatomy is the result of a ‘life‐long love affair with the nervous system’. It is a huge book in every sense resulting from the accumulation of a vast amount of neuroanatomical material (slides, neurohistological preparations, sections of autopsy material, etc.) during a long career in clinical neurology and neuroscience. As Dr Warner states in the Preface, all the illustrations in the book are the result of his own involvement at every stage of preparation, from resection of nervous tissue at autopsy until the final production of the photographs for subsequent reproduction at the printers. It is also worth noting that technical advances in neuroimaging that he has pioneered have been selected for presentation at recent annual meetings of the Society for Neuroscience. Thus, this is not only a vastly comprehensive and inclusive work but one that is of a truly contemporary nature.The book (or maybe it should be described as a ‘monumental tome’) is presented in eight parts. Part 1, ‘Neuroanatomy’, consists of a wonderful collection of colour and black and white photographs of the brain, some gratifyingly close‐up, to provide a very comprehensive representation …