The current issue of Nature contains an interesting article about Sir Christopher Wren’s contribution to neuroanatomy, by art historians Martin Kemp and Nathan Flis of Oxford University. The article focuses on the anatomical illustrations produced by Wren for Thomas Willis’s 1664 book Ce[...]
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7 October, 2009 15:51 § in Brain Dynamics, History
El primer caso de Alois Alzheimer.
On November 4th, 1906, during a lecture at the 37th Conference of South-West German Psychiatrists in Tubingen, the German neuropathologist and psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915, right )described “eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde” (a peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex)[...]
6 October, 2009 17:16 § in History
Dentro de los archivos del cerebro.
Neurosurgical Focus has an excellent article on the development of stereotactic neurosurgery where an external frame is usually screwed into the skull and fixes the head in place to allow surgeons to precisely locate brain areas in a standard 3D space.[...]
17:14 § in History
Cerebro en papel maché del siglo XIX.
Image: Phisick Antique Medical Collection This highly detailed papier mache model of the human brain, which can be pulled apart to reveal labelled and numbered structures within, was created by the French physician Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux (1797-1880). In the early 19th century, human cadavers for[...]
17:13 § in History
Mano artificial mecánica del siglo XVI.
This mechanical artificial hand, with fingers that could be moved individually by means of tiny internal cogs and levers, was designed and made almost 500 years ago by Ambroise Pare. Pare (1517-1590) began working as a battefield surgeon in 1536. When treating gunshot wounds on the battlefield, he o[...]