TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Preface A1 - Brust, John C. M. Y1 - 1 N1 - T2 - Practice of Neural Science: A Case-Based Approach AB - Students of neurobiology, especially medical students, often experience a wheat-chaff problem: Amidst an onrushing deluge of facts and concepts, how does one tell which information has clinical relevance? Do physicians actually encounter symptoms and signs that reflect the difference between ligand-gated and voltage-gated ion channels? Does the proper choice of diagnostic studies ever require awareness that the spinothalamic tract is a crossed ascending system whereas the dorsal column is not? Does it matter that a protein called tau binds to microtubules? It was with such questions in mind that Dr. Eric Kandel invited me to write a companion volume to Kandel, Schwartz, and Jessell’s Principles of Neural Science, Fourth Edition, with the broad aim of demonstrating the applicability of neurobiology to clinical decision making. In addition, it was thought readers might discover that understanding clinical phenomena in neurobiological terms can be good fun. SN - PB - CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/09 UR - neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1179133650 ER -