RT Book, Section A1 Waxman, Stephen G. SR Print(0) ID 1205350338 T1 Fundamental Organization of the Nervous System T2 Clinical Neuroanatomy, 30th Edition YR 2024 FD 2024 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781264583621 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1205350338 RD 2025/02/13 AB A good working knowledge of neuroanatomy is essential to every clinician in every specialty. More than any other organ, the nervous system makes human beings special. The human central nervous system (CNS) is the most complex and elegant computing device that exists. It receives and interprets an immense array of sensory information, controls a variety of simple and complex motor behaviors, and engages in deductive and inductive logic. The brain can imagine, plan ahead, make complex decisions, think creatively, and feel emotions. It can generalize and possesses an elegant ability to recognize that cannot be reproduced by even advanced computers. The human nervous system, for example, can immediately identify a familiar face regardless of the angle at which it is presented. It can carry out many demanding tasks in a nearly simultaneous manner.