Werner Kahle - Color Atlas of Human Anatomy, Vol. 3: Nervous System and Sensory Organs

in 3 volumes

Volume 1: Locomotor System by Werner Platzer

Volume 2: Internal Organs by Helga Fritsch and Wolfgang Kuehnel

Volume 3

Nervous System and Sensory Organs

7th edition

Werner Kahle, MD

Professor Emeritus
Institute of Neurology
University of Frankfurt/Main
Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Michael Frotscher, MD

Professor and Director
Institute for Structural Neurobiology
Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH)
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Hamburg, Germany

181 color plates

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This book is an authorized and revised translation of the 11th German edition published and copyrighted 2013 by Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. Title of the German edition: Taschenatlas Anatomie, Band 3: Nervensystem und Sinnesorgane

Original translation by: Ursula Vielkind, PhD, CTrans, Dundas, Ontario, Canada, and John Grossman, Schrepkow, Germany

New parts translated by: Gertrud Champe, Surry,
Maine, USA

Illustrated by: Professor Gerhard Spitzer, Frankfurt, Germany, in cooperation with Stephan Spitzer, Frankfurt, Germany

11th German edition 2013

6th English edition 2009

1st Bulgarian edition 2007
1st Chinese edition 2000
3rd Croatian edition 2011
6th Dutch edition 2012
4th French edition 2007
2nd Greek edition 2010
1st Hungarian edition 1996
2nd Indonesian edition 2000
4th Italian edition 2007
6th Japanese edition 2011
1st Polish edition 1988
2nd Portuguese edition 2008
1st Romanian edition 2012
5th Spanish edition 2008
1st Turkish edition 1987

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The number of students as well as colleagues in the field who have learned neuroanatomy according to volume 3 of the color atlas has been steadily increasing. Kahle's textbook has proved its worth. What should one do after taking on the job of carrying on with this text book, other than leaving as much as possible as it is? However, the rapid growth in our knowledge of neuroscience does not permit this. In just the last few years many new discoveries have been made that have shaped the way we view the structure and function of the nervous system. There was a need for updating and supplementing this knowledge. Hence, new sections have been added; for example, a section on modern methods of neuroanatomy, a section on neurotransmitter receptors, and an introduction to modern imaging procedures frequently used in the hospital. The Clinical tips have been preserved and supplemented in order to provide a link to the clinical setting. The purpose was to provide the student not only with a solid knowledge of neuroanatomy but also with an important foundation of interdisciplinary neuroscience. Furthermore, the student is introduced to the clinical aspects of those fields in which neuroanatomy plays an important role. I sincerely hope that the use of modern multicolor printing has made it possible to present things more clearly and in a more uniform way. Thus, sensory pathways are always presented in blue, motor pathways in red, parasympathetic fibers in green, and sympathetic fibers in yellow.