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 Universi… more →
NeurophilosophyClement wrote 3 days ago: Like any other science, neuroscience has its founding myths, historical anecdotes, legendary figures … more →
Mo wrote 2 years ago: From Myolgie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, by Jacques Fabian Gautier d’Agoty, 1 … more →
Mo wrote 2 years ago: Trepanation, or trephination (both derived from the Greek word trypanon, meaning “to bore … more →
Mo wrote 2 years ago: The single most famous case study in the history of neuropsychology is that of an anonymous memory-i … more →
Mo wrote 2 years ago: The International Herald Tribune recently ran a very interesting story about the Italian anarchist G … more →
Mo wrote 2 years ago: After writing this recent post about Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s epilepsy, I decided it was time I re … more →
Mo wrote 2 years ago: The French anatomist, anthropologist, and surgeon Pierre Paul Broca (1824-1880, left) is best rememb … more →
Mo wrote 2 years ago: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) is arguably the greatest novelist of all time. He cast a long shadow … more →
Mo wrote 2 years ago: Black peoples’ brains are, of course, no more or less peculiar than those of any other people. … more →
Mo wrote 2 years ago: Phineas Gage (1823-1860) is one of the earliest documented cases of severe brain injury. Gage is the … more →
Mo wrote 2 years ago: The ancient theory of ‘animal spirits’ (pneuma psychikon in Greek; spiritus animalis in … more →
Mo wrote 2 years ago: For most of the nineteenth century, there was an on-going debate among researchers about the organiz … more →
Mo wrote 2 years ago: On November 4th, 1906, during a lecture at the 37th Conference of South-West German Psychiatrists in … more →
Mo wrote 3 years ago: In medical knowledge, Egypt leaves the rest of the world behind. (The Odyssey, Homer) This remarkab … more →