Vishram Singh - Textbook of Clinical Neuroanatomy

During my long teaching experience, I found that undergraduate medical students generally feel that neuroanatomy is not only a difficult subject to understand but also that it is not of much help in general practice. Contrary to this view, I feel that the subject of neuroanatomy is based on sound scientific foundation, which if properly understood, is of great clinical importance even for general practice in addition to neurological specializations.

To ensure that students develop an interest in neuroanatomy, this book is written in simple language with rational ideas and correlation of theoretical knowledge to clinical problems. Further the text is profusely illustrated which makes it easier for students to understand the subject and correlate their knowledge rather than merely memorizing the information.

As a teacher of Anatomy, I am emphatic that nothing stimulates the students more than discussing clinical applications of neuroanatomy. Therefore theoretical details, not of much clinical relevance have been skipped; on the other hand emphasis is given on problem-based learning (PBL). Clinical comments (screened in light pink) are inserted in the running text itself to emphasize the clinical significance of every segment of the text. Patient-oriented problems and their anatomical basis are presented at the end of each chapter.

I hope that this textbook will be useful and exciting to read and that it will stimulate enthusiasm for the subject.

It is my pleasure to sincerely thank all my colleagues in the department, Dr. Poonam Kharb, Dr. Nisha Kaul, Dr. LK Padhy and Dr. Rajvir Singh for their help during the preparation of this book. I am highly grateful to my teacher Prof A Halim who inspired me to develop a keen interest in neuroanatomy.

I express my gratitude to Professors/Doctors Ashok Sahai, Ajai Srivastava, PK Sharma and Mehdi Hasan (Lucknow); Hasan Zaidi, Virendra Kumar, Vinod Kumar and RK Srivastava (Kanpur); NC Goel and Manju Goel (Allahabad); Usha Dhall and SK Srivastava (Rohtak); Rani Kumar, Gayatri Rath, ZM Kaul, RK Suri, ML Ajmani, Ram Prakash and Veena Bharihoke (New Delhi); SJ Haider and Nafis Ahmad Faruqi (Aligarh); Ramesh Babu (Meerut); Versha Katira (Ghaziabad), Krishna Garg and Brijendra Singh (Murad Nagar); Madhur Gupta and Balbir Singh (Chandigarh); SL Jethani and Sohail A Pervez (Jolly Grant, Dehradun); A Agarwal (Agra) for their support.

I am deeply indebted to Mr. MM Mehra of BI Publications for providing me books for reference during the preparation of this text. My thanks are due to Mr. Atul Bhushan for typesetting and page designing. I highly appreciate the perseverance and keen interest shown by Mr. Aslam Pervez in redrawing the illustrations on the computer.

I wish to express my thanks to Mr. YR Chadha, Publishing Consultant, BI Publications, and to the staff of Elsevier, particularly Mr. Rajiv Banerji, Publishing Manager, Mr. Anand K Jha, Editor, and Mr. NC Pant, Senior Production Executive for taking keen interest in production of this book. The efforts of Mr. Jha have been invaluable for completion of this project.