Acknowledgements
The authors are board-certified, clinical neurologists who started their career with similarly limited neuroscience backgrounds, but had the great fortune of meeting four of the most inspirational people in this field: Alexander deLahunta, Ian Griffiths, Joe Kornegay and Joe Mayhew.
Under their patient tutelage we came to understand how elegant and supremely logical the nervous system is, and what a thrill it is to make the correct neuroanatomical diagnosis on the basis of a neurological examination.The text is illustrated with clear, simple neuroanatomical diagrams drawn by the inimitable Quentin Roper, and anatomical specimens exquisitely prepared by Allan Nutman (Massey University).
The sheep brain used for gross specimens in the Appendix were prepared by Associate Professor Craig Johnson and Mr Neil Ward (Massey University).
Our thanks to Jaime Macdonald and Aaron Gilmour (Massey University), for their photography of Barney. Thanks also to the owners of Barney, the labrador retriever, and Timmy the whippet, for letting us use their canine models.
Our sincere thanks to the wise and experienced Dr. Tony Palmer of Cambridge University for providing the sheep brainstem histological sections and reviewing all of the Appendix images and their annotation.
Figs. 3.9B&C are reproduced from Thomson et al, Myelinated, synapsing cultures of murine spinal cord - validation as an in vitro model of the central nervous system, European Journal of Neuroscience, 2008, John Wiley and Sons.
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