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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 Universi… more »
Neurophilosophy
Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty
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MC wrote 1 year ago: From Myolgie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, by Jacques Fabian Gautier d’Agoty, 1 … more »
An illustrated history of trepanation
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MC wrote 1 year ago: Trepanation, or trephination (both derived from the Greek word trypanon, meaning “to bore … more »
Remembering Henry M.
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MC wrote 1 year 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
MC wrote 1 year 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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MC wrote 1 year 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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MC wrote 1 year 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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MC wrote 1 year 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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MC wrote 1 year 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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MC wrote 1 year 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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MC wrote 1 year ago: The ancient theory of ‘animal spirits’ (pneuma psychikon in Greek; spiritus animalis in … more »
The discovery of the neuron
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MC wrote 1 year ago: For most of the nineteenth century, there was an on-going debate among researchers about the organiz … more »
100 years of Alzheimer's Disease
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MC wrote 1 year 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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MC wrote 2 years ago: In medical knowledge, Egypt leaves the rest of the world behind. (The Odyssey, Homer) This remarkab … more »
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