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Brodal presents a much updated, English-language version of a classic neuroanatomy work by his famous father, Alf Brodal. The goal of the book is to introduce students to brain anatomy and to simultaneously link structure to function. In doing this, the book succeeds. One of its strong points is that Brodal has distilled out the core ideas and concepts of neuroanatomy by removing unnecessary and confusing detail, resulting in a lucid work. The diagrams, like the book, are stripped to the essentials and, although the artwork, diagrams, and pictures are not as fancy and impressive as those found in some recent neuroanatomy textbooks, they are, nonetheless, marked by their clarity and usefulness for learning. Although some of the explanations of function seem less detailed and therefore more simple than desired, this reviewer still strongly recommends this book or John Nolte's The Human Brain: An Introduction to Its Functional Anatomy (3rd ed., 1993) as the best of the current books available for learning neuroanatomy. D. A. Smith; Oberlin College
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