Book Synopsis
Provides a comprehensive overview of the terminology of the human central and peripheral nervous systems and related sensory organs
Uses the recently accepted Terminologia Neuroanatomica (TNA) put forward by the FIPAT (Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology)
Explains practically every term in use, in many cases illustrated with drawings, photomicrographs of sections, MRIs, and DTIs
Presents neuroanatomical, neuroembryological, and neurohistological terms alphabetically in standard English with American English spelling, the TNA official nomenclature in Latin, and brief descriptions for each term
About the Author
Authors:
Hans J. ten Donkelaar, M.D., Ph.D., 935 Department of Neurology, Donders Center for
Medical Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, has published three major works, not two; you probably forgot 'The Central Nervous
System of Vertebrates' (Nieuwenhuys, ten Donkelaar, Nicholson, Springer 1998)
Prof. Kachlík is Head of the Department of Anatomy of the Second Faculty of
Medicine of Charles University in Prague. He is an expert on anatomical nomenclature.
Prof. Tubbs serves as Chief Scientific Officer for the Seattle Foundation. He has published a
large number of papers, authored over 20 books, and is editor-in-chief of the journal Clinical
Anatomy.
Hans J. ten Donkelaar (1946) studied Medicine at the University of Nijmegen (The
Netherlands), where he received his M.D. (1974) and Ph.D. (1975). In 1978, he was appointed
Associate Professor of Neuroanatomy at the Department of Anatomy and Embryology of that
University. His research interests are developmental and comparative aspects of motor
systems, developmental disorders of the CNS and neurodegenerative disease. With Rudolf
Nieuwenhuys and Charles Nicholson he published The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates
(1998, Springer) and with Anthony Lohman an anatomy and embryology textbook in Dutch,
which is now in its fourth edition (ten Donkelaar HJ, Oostra R-J 2014 Klinische Anatomie en
Embryologie. Springer Media/Houten/NL). In 1998, he came to the Department of Neurology
of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center to do research on developmental and
neurodegenerative diseases. In 2006, he published with Martin Lammens and Akira Hori
Clinical Neuroembryology: Development and developmental disorders of the human central
nervous system (Springer), which is in its second edition now (2014), and in 2011 Clinical
Neuroanatomy: Brain circuitry and its disorders (Springer). Since 2012, he is Co-ordinator of
the FIPAT (Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology) Working
Group Neuroanatomy and responsible for the TNA.
David Kachlík (1974) studied Medicine in Prague, where he received his M.D. (1998) and
Ph.D. (2006). Since 1998, he worked in the Department of Anatomy of the Third Faculty of
Medicine of the Charles University in Prague. In 2016, he was appointed Professor of
Anatomy at its Second Faculty of Medicine. His research concerns vascular and
musculoskeletal anatomy, peripheral nerves and morphological terminology and
nomenclature. In 2010, he published with Pavel Čech, Vladimír Musil and Václav Báča České
Tĕlovĕdné Názvosloví (Brno), the Czech translation of the Terminologia Anatomica of 1998.
He is a member of FIPAT and published a series of influential papers on anatomical
terminology.
R. Shane Tubbs (1969) received his MS (1998) and Ph.D (2002) at the University of
Alabama, Birmingham, AL, where he started his career as a clinical anatomist and researcher.
His research focus has been on the so-called 'reverse translational anatomy research', where
clinical problems are identified and solved with anatomical studies. He has published a large
number of papers, authored over 20 books, and is editor-in-chief of the journal Clinical
Anatomy. He has recently moved to Seattle, WA, as the Chief Scientific Officer at the Seattle
Science Foundation, where he continues his research and teaching to medical professionals.
He is an editor of the 41th edition of Gray's Anatomy and recently published with
Mohammadali M. Shoja and Marios Loukas Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of
Human Anatomic Variation (Wiley, Blackwell, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2016). He is also a
member of FIPAT.
Contributors:
Robert H. Baud, Ph.D., Service of Medical Informatics, University Hospitals of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland (Informatics and cross-referencing)
Axel Brehmer, M.D., Ph.D. Institute of Anatomy. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, Krankenhausstraβe 9, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany (Enteric nervous system)
Jonas Broman, Ph.D., Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Linköping, S-58183 Linköping, Sweden (Spinal cord and Ascending systems)
Jean Büttner-Ennever, Ph.D., Department of Neuroanatomy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Faculty of Medicine, Pettenkoferstrasse 11, D-80336 Munich, Germany (Brain stem nuclei)
Matthew Carlson, M.D., Department of Otolaryngology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st St SW, 55905 Rochester, MN, USA (Ear)
Marco Catani, M.D., Department of Neuroimaging, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R2LS, UK (Association pathways, DTI)
Andras Csillag, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Semmelweis University, Tuzoltó utca 58, HU-1094 Budapest, Hungary (Basal ganglia)
Anja K.E. Horn-Bochtler, Ph.D., Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Faculty of Medicine, Pettenkoferstrasse 11, D-80336 Munich, Germany (Brain stem nuclei)
Ricardo Insausti, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Avenida Almansa 14, E-02006 Albacete, Spain (Hippocampal formation and related structures)
Geoffrey Meyer, Ph.D., School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley WA 6009, Australia (Histology)
Veronika Němcová, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anatomy, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, U nemocnice 3, 12800 Praha 2, Czech Republic (Gross anatomy and Brain stem)
Luis Puelles, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Human Anatomy and Psychobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia, E-30100 Murcia, Spain (Developmental aspects)
Clifford B. Saper, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard University Press and Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA (Hypothalamus and Preoptic region)
Gulgun Sengul, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anatomy, Ege University School of Medicine, Bornova, 35100 Izmir, Turkey (Spinal cord)
