Atlas of human central nervous system development
By: Shirley A. Bayer, Joseph Altman.
Contributors: Altman, Joseph, 1925-
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Subjects: Central nervous system -- Growth -- Atlases.; Developmental neurophysiology -- Atlases.; Brain -- growth & development -- Atlases.; Spinal Cord -- growth & development -- Atlases.; Brain -- embryology -- Atlases.; Spinal Cord -- embryology -- Atlases.
Genres: Atlases.
Description: The first volume in this series presents illustrations of structural development and includes clearly labeled photographs and extensive quantitative comparisons. Overview plates, unabbreviated terms, animal experimental data, glossary of terms, and 3D color images are also included. The second volume of this atlas focuses on the development of the human brain during the third trimester, and features grayscale photographs of sections of the brains cut in three cardinal plane planes of normal specimens from gestational week 26-37. The third volulme provides a pictorial record of the maturning brain at low and high magnification, accompanied by a structural analysis based on animal experiments.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The spinal cord from gestational week 4 to the fourth postnatal month; title: v. 2. The human brain during the third trimester; title: v. 3. The brain during the second trimester; title: v. 4. The human brain during the late first trimester.