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3D Head & Neck Anatomy with special Senses and Basic Neuroanatomy

3D Head & Neck Anatomy with special Senses and Basic Neuroanatomy. Barry Berkovitz, Claudia Kirsch, Bernard J. Moxham, Gus Alusi, Tony Cheesman (Authors). Primal Pictures 2009, DVD, $345.00.

This is an interactive DVD which displays head and neck anatomy in a pictorial fashion in combination with multiplanar T1 weighted MR images. The setup allows one to scroll over the MR images or over the anatomic drawings and with that the major structures are indentified. Additionally, movements of various structures are played in a cine-like mode and include eye, cervical spine, TMJ, larynx, face, and muscle animation. The drawings are … Continue reading >>

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Dissection of the Human Brain

L. Heimer. Sinauer Associates; 2007, running time: 2 hours 43 minutes, $75.00.

This DVD, authored by Lennart Heimer, MD, from the University of Virginia, is a demonstration of blunt brain dissection. With a running time of 2 hours and 43 minutes, it is divided into 3 sections. The first section demonstrates the major white matter tracts; the second, surface anatomy and deeper gray matter of the brain; and the third, major pathways such as the corticospinal tracts, sensory pathways, visual system pathways, brain stem, basal ganglionic structures, and the limbic system, among others. In some areas, the dissections are accompanied … Continue reading >>

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