Modern Teaching of NEUROANATOMY

The Emergence of Modern Neuroanatomy and Developmental Neurobiology

brain is based on Weigert preparations, and neuropa-thologists continued to use it well into the 1950s to look for the loss of myelin staining in the brains and spinal cords of patients who had suffered from tabes dorsalis or multiple sclerosis. And the Golgi method continued to be used until well into the 1970s, when it was essentially The Emergence of Modern Neuroanatomy replaced by intracell...

Teaching of neuroanatomy by means of self-instructional laboratory stations.

Neuroanatomical laboratory material was presented to first-year medical students in a series of six self-instructional stations. Each station was designed to emphasize one major objective and to be completed without reference to any other station. Upon completion of a station the students filled out a response questionnaire. Five weeks later, short examinations testing both station content and ...

Teaching images in Neuroanatomy: Value of the Klinger method

This paper presents a series of dissections created using the Klinger method. This method allows the dissection of white matter tracts in the central nervous system showing fiber orientation, three-dimensional relationships between grey and white matter components, and connections between distant neural centers. In addition, the use of the Klinger method increases the didactic value of conventi...

Using Equivalence-Based Instruction to Increase Efficiency in Teaching Neuroanatomy

A goal of all instruction is to efficiently allocate time spent teaching -- balancing redundancy that enhances learning with redundancy that is irrelevant to increasing student understanding. Efficient allocation of time allows the instructor to present additional material and go into more detail about the information being presented. Here we borrow laboratory research on concept formation and ...

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