Acknowledgments
I’d like to thank my wife, Kate, and the rest of my family and friends for putting up with
my decision to rewrite this book, and I’d like to thank my editor, Craig Panner, and the
rest of the Oxford University Press team for all of their hard work.
To rewrite this book, I started over entirely. I spent the fi rst year creating a muscle–
nerve directory and the following year creating a brain atlas, and then I went to work on
rewriting the book, itself. I threw out all of the original illustrations and redraft ed them as
I wrote the individual tutorials. Taking advantage of the ability to keyword search the
massive library of books now available online and taking advantage of several fundamen-
tal reference materials I'd used during the creation of the muscle–nerve directory and
brain atlas, I was able to create detailed illustrations and scripts that maintained the sim-
plicity of the original book but greatly improved upon its level of detail. As well, feedback
from the fi rst edition helped me understand how to provide the information a student
of neuroanatomy needs without sacrifi cing the clinical relevance a clinician is looking for.
In creating the tutorials, I came to understand that the text should serve as a play-by-play
manual that tersely defi nes each step in the drawing—only aft er the steps were solidifi ed
did I fl esh out the material, itself. When the tutorials were written and fi nalized, I then
broke them down into their individual steps, which served as an invaluable editorial
process.
Rewriting this book was all-consuming and I am eternally grateful to those closest to
me for giving me the time and space to see it to completion. Th ere are many, many people
who have helped me along the way and I hope the end product of this book will prove
your patience and eff orts worthwhile. I believe this book represents the best that neuro-
anatomy education has to off er and I am exceedingly grateful to those around me who
gave me the opportunity and freedom to have a second crack at it.