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It has been my very great pleasure to discover a neuroanatomy resource for those interested in learning neuroanatomy in state-of-the-art detail. This is a neuroanatomy textbook organized by John Nolte and Jay Angevine, two proteges of the great Russian neuroanatomist and neuroscientist, Paul Yakolev. It is simply the very best neuroanatomy resource that I have ever seen or encountered. It provides exceptionally detailed and lucid brain plates (including sagittal, coronal, and horizontal sections), and it uses very highresolution photographs, high-quality glossy paper, and a judicious sprinkling of color throughout. Brain sections are pictured with relevant structures outlined by thin lines, enabling relatively easy visualization of borders between contiguous structures. It covers of course all of the relevant major neuroanatomical regions including cortex, thalamus, basal ganglia, and the various brainstem regions including diencephalon, midbrain, pons, medulla etc. The quality of the images is first-rate throughout. Connectivities are also sketched in detail, although the means for depicting connectivities is at times a bit confusing, in that it is sometimes hard to follow the diagramming of various efferents and afferents if there are many projection systems in and out of a small region. However, connectivities are probably easier to see in this textbook than in another famous neuroanatomy teaching resource, the Human Brain Coloring Book. This is about my closest thing to a criticism or a quibble of the volume, but it hardly detracts from what is by any standard a truly exceptional reference text and neuroscience resource.
In addition to covering neuroanatomy in terms of regions and structures, there is also a much welcomed section covering neuroanatomy in terms of functional systems, although like virtually all neuroanatomy textbooks, functional correlates are discussed very briefly if at all. In the section on functional systems, there are summaries of the neuroa