Neuroscience has become one of the fields with most rapid expansion in the past two decades, which has witnessed the emergence of a dozen of Nobel laureates. The US Congress designated the last decade of the 20th century “the Decade of the Brain”, which vastly promoted the development of neuroscience. In February 2013, the White House announced the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies initiative, or BRAIN initiative, a project mimicking the Human Genome Project in the field of brain study. The initiative intends to explore mechanisms of human brain functions, to map the activities of the entire brain, and to facilitate future healing of cerebral diseases incurable to date. The human brain, consisting of hundreds of billions of neurons and hundreds of trillions of synapses, conceals enchanting mysteries of which we have extremely limited knowledge. As Ralph Adolphs, neuroscience professor in US Caltech, once pointed: We are not yet able to decipher the mechanism of the nervous system in a worm with solely 302 neurons. Even more ignorant are we of our much more sophisticated brain. Compared to the Human Genome Project, the BRAIN initiative is beyond doubt more profound and harder to accomplish. It is a huge challenge for brain scientists over the world.
Major references：《神经解剖学实习指导》：教研室自编（2013）
Major references：
1. Textbooks for Chinese Eight-Year Students of Clinical Medicine: Systematic Anatomy (Bai Shuling, 2nd Ed., 2010)
2. CORE TEXT OF NEUROANATOMY, 4th Ed., Malcolm Carpenter
3. Neuroanatomy: An Atlas of Structures, Sections, and Systems (Haines, 8th Ed.,2011);
4. Haines Atlas of Neuroanatomy, Chinese Version (8th Ed., 2013)
5. Neuroanatomy Filling Atlas (PUMC, 2012)
Terminologies of Neuroanatomy in Chinese and English
神经解剖教学视频-脑的解剖
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