MODULE 3

SUGGESTED READING

1) Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases by Hal Blumenfeld.

----- Blumenfeld gives a brief overview of most neural systems in his Chapter 2, and then considers them in greater detail in a later chapter. His overview of the dorsal column-medial lemniscus (DC-ML) pathway is on pages 34 - 35 and in Figure 2.18.

----- The dorsal column-medial lemniscus system (remember, Blumenfeld calls it the posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway) is discussed in the first part of Chapter 7. Because the treatment is woven in with other aspects of sensory function it is difficult to give page reading assignments, but be certain to read the sections with the following headings:

• Anatomical and clinical review (page 264).
• Main Somatosensory pathways (pages 264-7).
• Posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway (pages 267-8).
• Somatosensory cortex (page 270).
• Also study Figure 7.1, Table 7.2, and Figure 7.3.

2) The Nervous System in Action byMichael D. Mann. Click on MANN TEXT to access the internet version of this excellent textbook. The home page provides links to individual chapters and also offers PDF links, making it easy to print copies of the text. You can view the material directly on your computer screen, but print out a copy if possible. The reason to do so is that we will refer to specific pages in the text, and these are not shown in the computer screen version. In Chapter 5 see the following:

• Page 5-1 - the exteroceptors
• Page 5-3 - mechanical sensations
• Page 5-6 - receptive fields
• Page 5-18 - the enteroceptors

In Chapter 6 see the following:

• Page 6-1 - somatosensory pathways
• Page 6-5 - dermatomes and somatotopic organization
• Page 6-12 - cerebral mechanisms of sensation

3) Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications by Duane E. Haines. Third Edition.

• The DC-ML pathway is covered in Chapter 17. Skip the sections at the end of the chapter, starting with the trigeminal system on pg. 272.

4) Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz and Thomas M. Jessel. This text has a much more detailed treatment of this topic, but - as always - it is excellent and fun to read.

• Chapter 18, pages 338 - 345, but skip (if you like) the section on the thalamus, starting on page 341. This chapter focuses on the organization of sensory pathways at the level of the spinal cord
• Chapter 20, pages 386 - 391. These deal with the cortical analysis of sensory information.
• Chapter 22, pages 446 - 448. These sections deal most directly with the dorsal column-medial lemniscus system.
• Chapter 23. Further treatment of the cortical analysis of sensory (touch) information

5) The Digital Anatomist. This is an excellent program developed by the Dept. Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle. It contains a huge library of views of the brain. We will refer to specific figures in many of our modules, including this one.

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