NEUROANATOMY
Neuroanatomy is the branch of medicine studying the structures and functions of the nervous system. It is the description of all parts of the nervous system including brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves.
Neuroanatomy is the careful description of all of the anatomical structures in the nervous system. This includes all of the major and minor structures in the brain, the spinal cord and the nerves, the sensory and motor nerves as well as neurons and glia.
The major subdivisions of the brain are brainstem, made up of the Midbrain, the Pons and the Medulla. Proceeding upwards towards the top of the brain, comes the Limbic system. The primary structures of the Limbic system are the parahippocampal gyrus, the hippocampal formation, the amygdale, and the hypothalamus. Within the brain is the Diencephalon which is made up primarily of the Thalamus. The cerebrum is divided into two...
History
The first known written record of a study of the anatomy of the human brain is an ancient Egyptian document, the Edwin Smith Papyrus. In Ancient Greece, interest in the brain began with the work of Alcmaeon, who appeared to have dissected the eye and related the brain to vision. He also suggested that the brain, not the heart, was the organ that ruled the body (what Stoics would call the hegemonikon) and that the senses were dependent on the brain
