A Textbook of Neuroanatomy

Maria A. Patestas is Associate Professor of Anatomy at DesMoines University. She has taught gross anatomy, neuroanatomy,embryology, and histology in various programs, and served as thechief coordinator of the physical therapy program neuroanatomycourse from 1995 to 2001. In 2000, Dr Patestas received theOutstanding Teacher Award from the Physical Therapy Program Class.
Leslie P. Gartner is Professor of Anatomy in theDepartment of Biomedical Sciences at the Dental School of theUniversity of Maryland. He has received numerous teaching awardsand is the author of Essentials of Oral Histology andEmbryology, 3rd Edition (1999), Oral Histology andEmbryology, 2nd Edition (1999) as well as the coauthorof the well-respected Textbook of Head and Neck Anatomy,3rd Edition, with James L. Hiatt (2001), and coauthor of theColor Textbook of Histology, 2nd Edition (2001) and theColor Atlas of Histology, 4th Edition (2005) also with JamesL. Hiatt. The atlas, which is used by almost half the US medicalschools, has been translated into eight languages. He alsocoauthored Cell Biology and Histology, 4th Edition (2003)with James L. Hiatt and Judy M. Strum and is the Histologyconsultant to Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28thEdition (2006).