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Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty
From Myolgie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, by Jacques Fabian Gautier d’Agoty, 1746. Reproduced with permission from the W. W. Kellogg Health Sciences Library at Dalhousie Universit… more →
Neurophilosophy
Reimagining the brain
wrote 2 months ago: Technology Review provides an illustrated “time travel through the brain“: Over the 100- … more →
Phineas Gage: the Picture
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wrote 5 months ago: Like any other science, neuroscience has its founding myths, historical anecdotes, legendary figures … more →
An illustrated history of trepanation
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wrote 2 years ago: The operation of Trepan, from Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery: Trepan, Hernia, Ampu … more →
Remembering Henry M.
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wrote 2 years ago: The single most famous case study in the history of neuropsychology is that of an anonymous memory-i … more →
The curious case of the anarchist's pickled brain
wrote 2 years ago: The International Herald Tribune recently ran a very interesting story about the Italian anarchist G … more →
Saint Vitus's Dance
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wrote 2 years ago: After writing this recent post about Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s epilepsy, I decided it was time I re … more →
Old brains, new ideas
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wrote 2 years ago: The French anatomist, anthropologist, and surgeon Pierre Paul Broca (1824-1880, left) is best rememb … more →
Diagnosing Dostoyevsky's epilepsy
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wrote 2 years ago: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) is arguably the greatest novelist of all time. He cast a long shadow … more →
On the peculiarities of the Negro brain
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wrote 2 years ago: Black peoples’ brains are, of course, no more or less peculiar than those of any other people. … more →
The incredible case of Phineas Gage
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wrote 3 years ago: Phineas Gage (1823-1860) is one of the earliest documented cases of severe brain injury. Gage is the … more →
Exorcising animal spirits: The discovery of nerve function
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wrote 3 years ago: The ancient theory of ‘animal spirits’ (pneuma psychikon in Greek; spiritus animalis in … more →
The discovery of the neuron
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wrote 3 years ago: For most of the nineteenth century, there was an on-going debate among researchers about the organiz … more →
Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty
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wrote 2 years ago: From Myolgie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, by Jacques Fabian Gautier d’Agoty, 17 … more →
100 years of Alzheimer's Disease
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wrote 3 years ago: On November 4th, 1906, during a lecture at the 37th Conference of South-West German Psychiatrists in … more →
Pharaonic neurosurgery: the Edwin Smith surgical papyrus
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wrote 3 years ago: In medical knowledge, Egypt leaves the rest of the world behind. (The Odyssey, Homer) This remarkabl … more →
