ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the pathologist to the essentials of structural and functional neuroanatomy, so that relationships between nervous system structure and symptoms and signs of disease can be more fully understood. Knowledge of functional anatomy ensures that the pathologist, when carrying out an examination, concentrates attention on clinically relevant regions of the central and/or peripheral nervous systems. Precise anatomical localization of symptoms and signs had previously been dependent upon clinicopathological correlations carried out by earlier generations of clinicians and pathologists usually after surgery or death.
