Archive for November, 2009

Anatomic Basis of Neurologic Diagnosis. Cary D. Alberstone; Michael P. Steinmetz; Imad M. Najm; Edward C. Benzel. Thieme 2009, 600 pages, 511 illustrations, $119.95. In an easy to read book, Anatomic Basis of Neurologic Diagnosis [...]

The Handbook of Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers Endophenotypes and Genes Michael S. Ritsner (Editor) Volume I: Neuropsychological Endophenotypes and Biomarkers Springer 2009, 274 pages, 16 illustrations, $159.95 Volume II: Neuroanatomical and Neuroimaging Endophenotypes and Biomarkers Springer 2009, [...]

Neuroinformatics (Methods in Molecular Biology) C. J. Crasto, ed. Humana Press; 2007, 404 pages, 86 illustrations, $99.50. As neuroscience problems become more data-intensive and we rely heavily on computer systems for analysis, computational scientists have [...]

Coherent Behavior in Neuronal Networks Series: Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience , Vol. 3 Krešimir Josić, Jonathan Rubin, Manuel Matías, Runulfo Romo (Eds.) Springer 2009, 304 pages, 144 illustrations $189.00 Birth, Life and Death of Dopaminergic [...]

Mukherji SK, consulting ed. Chong VFH, guest ed. Neuroimaging Clinics of North America: Skull Base and Temporal Bone Imaging. Vol 19, No 3, August 2009. The clinics.com, pages 287-516, $293.00 The August 2009 issue of [...]

A middle age woman presented with left progressive proptosis.  A contrast enhanced CT was done and showed enlargement of the left superior ophthalmic vein on the axial plane (see below).  A coronal image confirmed this [...]

Clinical Functional MRI. Presurgical Functional Neuroimaging with contributions by numerous experts Series: Medical Radiology; Subseries: Diagnostic Imaging. Christoph Stippich (Ed.) Springer 2007, 272 pages, 182 illustrations, $175.00. Clinical Functional MRI edited by Christoph Stippich is [...]

SCD Here is a short and concise presentation on the etiology, imaging findings and treatment for subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord.  It was prepared by one of our neuroradiology fellows, Dr. Ali Nasim, [...]

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Until recently we have been scanning routine CT heads using a sequential technique with 5 mm slices through the posterior fossa and 10 mm slices of the supratentorial compartment. With a change of machines the [...]