Andreas Vesalius is the greatest anatomist of all time. His work, the Fabrica, published almost 500 years ago, signposts a new era in medicine. Brain Renaissance translates and comments upon those chapters dedicated to the brain, and learns how his words still resonate in neuroscience today.
Andreas Vesalius is the greatest anatomist of all time. His work, the Fabrica, published almost 500 years ago, signposts a new era in medicine. Brain Renaissance translates and comments upon those chapters dedicated to the brain, and learns how his words still resonate in neuroscience today.
Marco Catani Neuroanatomy and Tractography Brain Laboratory Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences Institute of Psychiatry Stefano Sandrone Neuroanatomy and Tractography Brain Laboratory Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences Institute of Psychiatry
Inhaltsangabe
* - Preface * -Introduction 1: The Anatomy of an anatomist * - Introduction 2: A brief history of neuroscience from Vesalius to the connectome * - Chapter 1: The brain is fabricated for the sake of the supreme spirit, the senses, and also the movement that depends upon our will * - Chapter 2: On the dura membrane that surrounds the brain, and the small membrane covering the skull under the skin * - Chapter 3: On the tenuis cerebral membranes * - Chapter 4: On the number, position, shape, convolutions and substance of the brain and cerebellum * Commentary: Scratching the surface of complexity * - Chapter 5: On the corpus callosum of the brain and the septum of the right and left ventricles * Commentary: A tale of anarchic hands and split brains * - Chapter 6: On the cerebral ventricle * Commentary: The liquor of our souls * - Chapter 7: On the brain structure that expert dissectors have compared to a tortoise-like vault * Commentary: A memory thread in the brain * - Chapter 8: On the cerebral gland resembling a pine nut * Commentary: From the seat of the soul to the SAD lamps * - Chapter 9: On the testes [i.e. superior colliculi] and buttocks [i.e. inferior colliculi] of the brain * Commentary: Sex on the hills * - Chapter 10: On the processes of that [part of the] cerebellum that resembles a worm [i.e. vermis], and the tendons that contain them * Commentary: More than a little brain * - Chapter 11: On the infundibulum, the glandule that receives the cerebral phlegm and the other ducts that cleanse it * Commentary: The axis of survival * - Chapter 12: On the networks of the brain believed to be similar to the reticular plexus and the placenta * Commentary: The net of wonder * - Chapter 13: On the organ of smell * - Chapter 14: On the eye, the instrument of vision * - Chapter 15: On the organ of hearing * - Chapter 16: On the organ of taste * - Chapter 17: On the organ of touch * - Chapter 18: How to dissect the brain and all the organs referred to in this brain * -Appendix: Select Figures from Andreas Vesalius * - Index
* - Preface * -Introduction 1: The Anatomy of an anatomist * - Introduction 2: A brief history of neuroscience from Vesalius to the connectome * - Chapter 1: The brain is fabricated for the sake of the supreme spirit, the senses, and also the movement that depends upon our will * - Chapter 2: On the dura membrane that surrounds the brain, and the small membrane covering the skull under the skin * - Chapter 3: On the tenuis cerebral membranes * - Chapter 4: On the number, position, shape, convolutions and substance of the brain and cerebellum * Commentary: Scratching the surface of complexity * - Chapter 5: On the corpus callosum of the brain and the septum of the right and left ventricles * Commentary: A tale of anarchic hands and split brains * - Chapter 6: On the cerebral ventricle * Commentary: The liquor of our souls * - Chapter 7: On the brain structure that expert dissectors have compared to a tortoise-like vault * Commentary: A memory thread in the brain * - Chapter 8: On the cerebral gland resembling a pine nut * Commentary: From the seat of the soul to the SAD lamps * - Chapter 9: On the testes [i.e. superior colliculi] and buttocks [i.e. inferior colliculi] of the brain * Commentary: Sex on the hills * - Chapter 10: On the processes of that [part of the] cerebellum that resembles a worm [i.e. vermis], and the tendons that contain them * Commentary: More than a little brain * - Chapter 11: On the infundibulum, the glandule that receives the cerebral phlegm and the other ducts that cleanse it * Commentary: The axis of survival * - Chapter 12: On the networks of the brain believed to be similar to the reticular plexus and the placenta * Commentary: The net of wonder * - Chapter 13: On the organ of smell * - Chapter 14: On the eye, the instrument of vision * - Chapter 15: On the organ of hearing * - Chapter 16: On the organ of taste * - Chapter 17: On the organ of touch * - Chapter 18: How to dissect the brain and all the organs referred to in this brain * -Appendix: Select Figures from Andreas Vesalius * - Index
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