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Neuroanatomy

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Walle J. H. Nauta

    1. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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Part of the book series: Contemporary Neuroscientists (CN)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  4. General Organization of the Central Nervous System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Hippocampal Projections and Related Neural Pathways to the Mid-Brain in the Cat

      • Walle J. H. Nauta
      Pages 117-139

    3. A Comparison of the Distribution of the Fornix System in the Rat, Guinea Pig, Cat, and Monkey

      • Elliot S. Valenstein, Walle J. H. Nauta
      Pages 140-166

    4. Ascending Axon Degeneration Following Anterolateral Cordotomy. An Experimental Study in the Monkey

      • William R. Mehler, Martin E. Feferman, Walle J. H. Nauta
      Pages 167-201

    5. Fibre Degeneration Following Lesions of the Amygdaloid Complex in the Monkey

      • W. J. H. Nauta
      Pages 202-219

    6. Neural Associations of the Amygdaloid Complex in the Monkey

      • Walle J. H. Nauta
      Pages 220-237

    7. The Isodendritic Core of the Brain Stem

      • E. Ramón-Moliner, W. J. H. Nauta
      Pages 238-262

    8. The Hypothalamic Distribution of the Stria Terminalis in the Rat

      • Lennart Heimer, Walle J. H. Nauta
      Pages 263-276

    9. Afferent Connections of the Habenular Nuclei in the Rat. A Horseradish Peroxidase Study, with a Note on the Fiber-of-Passage Problem

      • Miles Herkenham, Walle J. H. Nauta
      Pages 277-299
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I received my first introduction to the brain sciences in 1936 and 1937, for me the second and third years of the 7-year medical school curriculum at the University of Leiden. During those years my interest in the subject was aroused in particular by the brilliant lectures of the physiologist G. C. Rademaker - a prominent former member of the Rudolf Magnus school - and the neurohistologist S. T. Bok, noted especially for his histometric studies of the cerebral cortex. Fascinated as I was by everything I learned about the brain from these outstanding teachers, toward the end of their courses I began to notice conspicuous gaps that separated neurophysiology from neuroanatomy. In fact, I could (or thought I could) detect a reasonable concordance between the two sciences only in case of some sensory and somatic-motor systems. For most other functions anatomical substrates seemed either poorly defined or, as in the case of the central viscero-endocrine system, hardly recognized at all. With all the arrogance of which a 20-year old student is capable I concluded that what the brain sciences needed was a new and more complete anatomy that emphasized in particular the continuity of, and convergences or interconnections between individual conduction systems. And I wistfully mused that perhaps at some time in the future I could make such an endeavour part of my own career.

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  • Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Walle J. H. Nauta

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