RT Book, Section
A1 Waxman, Stephen G.
SR Print(0)
ID 1171519912
T1 The Relationship Between Neuroanatomy and Neurology
T2 Clinical Neuroanatomy, 29e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260452358
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1171519912
RD 2024/04/16
AB A  knowledge  of  neuroanatomy  is  essential  for  the  neurological  clinician.  Neurology,  more  than  any  other  specialty,  rests  on  clinicoanatomic  correlation.  Patients  do  not  arrive  at  the  neurologist’s  office  saying  “the  motor  cortex  in  my  right  hemisphere  has  been  damaged  as  a  result  of  a  stroke,”  but  they  do  tell,  or  show,  the  neurologist  that  there  is  weakness  of  the  face  and  arm  on  the  left.  Since  the  nervous  system  is  constructed  in  a  modular  manner,  with  different  nerves,  and  different  parts  of  the  brain  and  spinal  cord  subserving  different  functions,  it  is  often  possible  to  infer,  from  a  careful  physical  examination  and  history  together  with  knowledge  of  neuroanatomy,  which  part  of  the  nervous  system  is  affected,  even  prior  to  ordering  or  viewing  imaging  studies.  And,  it  is  often  possible  to  suggest  the  cause.  The  neurologic  clinician  thus  attempts,  with  each  patient,  to  answer  two  questions:  (1)  Where  is  (are)  the  lesion(s)?  and  (2)  What  is  (are)  the  lesion(s)?