Neuroanatomical Terminology

Human brain imaging, connectomics, network analysis, and neuroinformatics are just some of the important current arenas in neuroscience addressed here. The book solves a fundamental problem by supplying the first global, historically documented, hierarchically organized human nervous system parts list. This defined vocabulary accurately and systematically describes every human nervous system structural feature that can be observed with current imaging methods, andprovides an extendible framework for describing accurately the nervous system in all animals including invertebrates and vertebrates alike. Research for the book began in the late 1990s when the lackof a systematic vocabulary for neuroanatomy became a critical problem in developing databases and online knowledge management systems for the NIH Human Brain Project (1995-2005), which grew out of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on a National Neural Circuitry Database (1989). One outcome of this research was the publication with Mihail Bota in 2011 of a Foundational Model of Connectivity. It provides the conceptual framework for this book, which is divided into three main parts. The firstconsists of four chapters discussing the rationale behind the Lexicon of nervous system parts, historical trends in the evolution of neuroanatomical concepts and nomenclature, the development ofhierarchical nomenclature tables, and practical notes on using the Lexicon. The second part is the Lexicon itself, with separate entries for 1,381 standard terms. Each standard term has a textual definition including the method used for identification, age, sex, and species to which it applies, and a citation to the first use of the term as so defined. Each entry also has, where appropriate, chronological lists of nonstandard terms (10,928 in all): translations, alternate spellings, earlierdelineations before naming, earlier synonyms, later synonyms, and partly corresponding terms. The third part is a set of 10 hierarchical nomenclature tables of nervous system standard terms.

Winner of Received an honorable mention in the PROSE Awards 2016 within the Single Volume Reference/Science category.

“"The author does an outstanding job of providing a definition for each term, general date of its first usage and the term's originator, alternate spellings, translations, earlier references, later synonyms, partly corresponding terms, and methodology." --Doody's Health Sciences Book Review "It is a monumental work that will attract the interest of anybody interested in the history of neuroanatomy, particularly of the identification and naming of its individual parts, and would also be invaluable to readers and investigators who feel nervous attempting to interpret historical neuroanatomic and neurologic texts." --Journal of the History of the Neurosciences: Basic and Clinical Perspectives "I commend the author for the energy, attention to detail, and scholarship evident on every page of this masterful contribution to the historical contexts and evolving spellings and semantics of neuroscientific terminology. ... The current volume is highly recommended for graduate-level programs in cognitive neuroscience, the history of science, and medical school libraries." --Paul E. Tibbetts, The Quarterly Review of Biology Indexed in HistoryOfMedicine.com.”

Honorable Mention, 2016 Prose Award: Single Volume Reference/Science"The author does an outstanding job of providing a definition for each term, general date of its first usage and the term's originator, alternate spellings, translations, earlier references, later synonyms, partly corresponding terms, and methodology." --Doody's Health Sciences Book Review"It is a monumental work that will attract the interest of anybody interested in the history of neuroanatomy, particularly of the identification and naming of its individual parts, and would also be invaluable to readers and investigators who feel nervous attempting to interpret historical neuroanatomic and neurologic texts." --Journal of the History of the Neurosciences: Basic and Clinical Perspectives"I commend the author for the energy, attention to detail, and scholarship evident on every page of this masterful contribution to the historical contexts and evolving spellings and semantics of neuroscientific terminology. ... The current volume is highly recommended for graduate-level programs in cognitive neuroscience, the history of science, and medical school libraries." --Paul E. Tibbetts, The Quarterly Review of BiologyIndexed in HistoryOfMedicine.com.

Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professor of Biological SciencesUniversity of Southern CaliforniaHedco Neuroscience Building

Human brain imaging, connectomics, network analysis, and neuroinformatics are just some of the important current arenas in neuroscience addressed here. The book solves a fundamental problem by supplying the first global, historically documented, hierarchically organized human nervous system parts list. This defined vocabulary accurately and systematically describes every human nervous system structural feature that can be observed with current imaging methods, and provides an extendible framework for describing accurately the nervous system in all animals including invertebrates and vertebrates alike. Research for the book began in the late 1990s when the lack of a systematic vocabulary for neuroanatomy became a critical problem in developing databases and online knowledge management systems for the NIH Human Brain Project (1995-2005), which grew out of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on a National Neural Circuitry Database (1989). One outcome of this research was the publication with Mihail Bota in 2011 of a Foundational Model of Connectivity. It provides the conceptual framework for this book, which is divided into three main parts. The first consists of four chapters discussing the rationale behind the Lexicon of nervous system parts, historical trends in the evolution of neuroanatomical concepts and nomenclature, the development of hierarchical nomenclature tables, and practical notes on using the Lexicon. The second part is the Lexicon itself, with separate entries for 1,381 standard terms. Each standard term has a textual definition including the method used for identification, age, sex, and species to which it applies, and a citation to the first use of the term as so defined. Each entry also has, where appropriate, chronological lists of nonstandard terms (10,928 in all): translations, alternate spellings, earlier delineations before naming, earlier synonyms, later synonyms, and partly corresponding terms. The third part is a set of 10 hierarchical nomenclature tables of nervous system standard terms.

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