Category: Anatomy

  • Cardiovascular development and changes at birth

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    On Monday I gave a double lecture. The first part was about cardiovascular embryology, and the heart in particular, and the second part was about the changes to the cardiovascular system that occur with birth and the baby’s first breath. The second part is normally delivered by Dr Geraint Morris, a consultant paediatrician and neonatologist…

  • Thalamus: Netter’s Concise Neuroanatomy

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    Elsevier have a sample chapter of Netter’s Concise Neuroanatomy available for the thalamus, which I talked about today. It’s very nice, with the excellent illustrations that we’re used to and much of the relevant information about the thalamic nuclei and their motor, sensory and limbic system links summarised in tables. Have a look at the…

  • Neuroscience podcast 6: pain pathways

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    The 6th podcast from Phil & me (sorry, Dr Phil Newton & Dr Samuel Webster) is up, live, available and downloadable. We talk about how sensations of pain are relayed to the brain and a little about how the brain perceives pain, phantom limb pain and referred pain. Phil also tells me how the brain…

  • A Map of the Cranial Nerves

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    What do you think of this? I’ve been putting this together, probably, for the last couple of years. I was driven by the aim to visually represent, in a format that most of us recognise and can navigate easily, what the cranial nerves link to. That is, which structures send and receive information via neurones…

  • New Podcasts

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    I’ve been a bit busy recently, but the first draft of the Embryology at a Glance textbook is written (hurrah!) & there are a couple of new podcasts that I’ve put out.

  • Week 112: bones of the hand and wrist

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    On Monday we got to the end of the upper limb and looked at the forearm, wrist and hand. We will be going back up to the shoulder and the brachial plexus in particular after Christmas. In my station we looked at the bones of the wrist and hand. Easy enough, and stuff the medical…

  • Week 107: The kidneys

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    I wasn’t supposed to be teaching on Monday but one of our clinical colleagues was ill so it was a good job I could remember a little bit of kidney anatomy. I briefly introduced the location of the kidneys, found retroperitoneally on the posterior abdominal wall. The right kidney is a little lower than the…

  • Week 103: Lung anatomy

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    On Monday we looked at some lungs. Plastic models, lungs in situ, lungs on their own, and lungs attached to the heart and great vessels. The main aim was to look at the differences between the left (2 lobes) and right (3 lobes!) lungs and develop a good understanding of the shapes of the lungs…

  • Week 202: Circle of Willis

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    Or the circulus arteriosus cerebri. Although it seems that the circle of Willis was covered many, many times on Monday it was also part of my session. As I discovered this I shifted the session towards other aspects of the blood supply to the brain. We looked at the internal carotid artery and followed its…

  • Week 201: The Otic Ganglion

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    Ouch! That wasn’t a nice way to start the second year of medical school was it? OK, so most of the session was about the tongue and salivary glands, which seem simple enough until you start trying to hook them up. Then you get into cranial nerves and the intricacies of head and neck anatomy.…