1st Edition

The Human Brain During the Early First Trimester

By Shirley A. Bayer, Joseph Altman Copyright 2008
534 Pages 40 Color & 410 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

536 Pages
by CRC Press

This is the fifth and last Volume in the Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development Series. It deals with human brain development during the early first trimester from the third through the seventh gestational weeks. Serial sections from 14 specimens are illustrated and annotated in detail, together with 3?D reconstructions of the brains of eight specimens. The Human Brain During the... Read more
Sagittal Plane Specimens. Frontal Plane Specimens.

Biography

Shirley A. Bayer, Joseph Altman

"This is the definitive histological resource for the study of human brain development. It represents a more comprehensive pictorial depiction of the morphology and cellular reorganization during early neural development than competing books . . . I highly recommend this atlas . . ."

– Jennifer Brueckner, Ph.D, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Doddy’s Core Titles, 2009