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 - great!I recieved the book very fast and it was in great condition. Thankyou! Rating:  - neuroanatomy made ridiculously simpleNeeds more images but otherwise a good review book for neuroanatomy. Rating: - Better than High YieldI used this book to review for the USMLE Step 1 and really enjoyed it. In general, I've found the "Ridiculously Simple" Series to be better for me that "High Yield." Although the "Ridiculously Simple" books don't always pack in quite as much information, they are much better at helping you remember things with their clever drawings and mnemonics. And in the end, it's not what you went over but what you REMEMBER that counts. I also found this book quite useful for clearing up several clinical points that were not well covered in my neuroanatomy course. The only reason it gets 4 stars is that I wish some of the figures and drawings were a little better. But overall it's a great little book! Rating:  - Superficial explanations, too small in size, disorganized.Well the thing about this book is that it really is not organized very well in some areas. So if you think that you're going to feel like your reading microbiology MRS book and getting that feeling like you're really learning easily from it forget it. That is what I thought at least. They book can get you frustrated at many pages along the ways of reading it; in areas as you're reading it; because it only explains crucial stuff superficially. I really liked the CD that came with it tho; although over simplistic in some ways; but it really helps you in building up your confidence; so I would really use the cd after reading this book if I were you... Yeah really use this CD, I liked it; the CD I think I liked it even more then the book itself; you should read the book first to get the most out of the CD that comes with this book. You need a nice atlas of neuroanatomy when reading this book.... Once you get to the end of this book and use the CD you'll be feeling much better about it, you're feeling a little better by then. To me one weird thing was the size of this book; I think it's too small; it's so small that it does not give you enough room to add notes to it. The drawings are too small and not really enough to be considered good for the reader; you get a little lost here and there when trying to follow the stuff that it tells you; that it tells you too look at because of its size... to look at in the text and so forth and so on... The pictures that it alerts you to follow are misplaced in them pages... They could be better positioned. This book could still be even greater if it still did a better job in explaining stuff, I mean if he just stretched out more when explaining stuff, it would be great, like when he talked about the brown sequad syndrome I had to read it elsewhere because I did not get the full picture from reading his book alone; you know of what that was all about and stuff. Although the author tries to convey the messages in an easy way, that makes it undemanding for you to understand it, the disorganization and the lack of explanations on some areas don't make this book thorough in many respects; so here is the take home massage, I would use this book as something that you could use for keep track of what to know for the exam... Thinking about it maybe that's why the FA book rates this book as a book B RATED and not as an A RATED book like it does for HY neuroanatomy. I prefer this book's format tho then the HY neuroanatomy , even tho that the quality of HY is better and this book in several aspects could be so much improved. The author should for his 4th edition, maybe pay a little more attention to the overall shape and size of the book ,break down all the stuff that he's trying to explain more extensively cause what he's talking about is right on the money ;just needs a little bit more finesse to it; like really talk to the students; don't mind it's size in terms of how many pages its going to take to do it; but you know do it... I am sure that it would be the number one book on this subject matter... The important thing should be that when you can easily follow a very hard subject, such as neuroanatomy you will just keep it for life. In order to make its ratings go up, the size of the book should be taken into under consideration. It will make it easier for us to follow and add notes to it, graphs and all that other stuff? Some flaws that could be fixed very easily, overall you need a really nice neuroanatomy atlas to get the most out of this book along with the cd that comes with this book. Stresses you out; trying to read through those small letterings and the small drawings and so forth and so on. This book you know well it's already got its way cutout for to being an A+ rated book... Just needs a little more shaping in place; length of its explanations, maybe it should be about the same size of those two books, from the series, the anatomy one; and the microbiology one. (Microbiology made ridiculously simple) Easier to look at; the hand made drawings , could add notes to it much leisurely ; that is if you like doing that to your books ;I know some people that don't even write their name and stuff on their books. Dr.Claudio A.G.Monteiro Filho. Recife, Pernambuco. Brazil. Rating: - This is the FIRST and ONLY place to start studying neuro!As a medical student, I suggest that this is the first place you go to learn about neuroanatomy. It gives you the basics and builds a foundation that you can build on. After a few hours with this book, I was weeks ahead of my classmates! In association with Amazon.com | |