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This book is a fascinating collection of various neuroscience terms coined over the last centuries. Each of the 45 chapters in this book dives deep into the etymologies, vernacular subtleties and historical anecdotes relating to these terms. The book illustrates the rich and diverse history of neuroscience, which has borrowed and continues to borrow terms and concepts from across cultures, literature and languages. The ever-increasing number of terms that needed to be coined with the mushrooming of the field required neuroscientists to show astonishing imagination and creativity, leading them to draw inspiration from Graeco-Roman mythology (Elpenor's syndrome), literature (Lasthenie de Ferjol's syndrome), theatre (Ondine's curse), Japanese folklore (Kanashibari), and even the Bible (Matthew effect). This book will of be immense interest to scholars and researchers studying neuroscience, history of science, anatomy, psychology and linguistics. It will also appeal to any reader interested in learning more about neuroscience and its history. All the chapters included in this book were originally published in a column that appeared from 1997 to 2020 in the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.
Contents
RhinencephalonFornix and Gyrus fornicates: Carnal Sins?Cerebral Mythology: A Skull Stuffed With GodsThe Three Musketeers and the Twelve Cranial NervesJust What is the Inferior Cerebellar Peduncle?Vague, Uncertain, Ambiguous, Obscure: Imprecision or Modesty?Vater, Pacini, Wagner, Meissner, Golgi, Mazzoni, Ruffini, Merkel and Krause: Were their nerves all on edge?The Subfornical and Subcommissural Organs: Never-Ending RediscoveriesArachnophobia: Spiders and Spider's Webs in the HeadClaustrum: A Sea Wall Between the Island and the Shell?Phantom Limb: Haunted Body?Lasthenie de Ferjol's Syndrome: A Tribute Paid by Jean Bernard to Jules Amedee Barbey d'AurevillyAnsa Hypoglossi or Ansa Cervicalis: That is the Question...Reissner's Fibre: The Exception Which Proves the Rule, or the Devil According to Charles Baudelaire?If there are "Deep" Cerebellar Nuclei, Where are the "Superficial" Ones?"James Parkinson did not die of his own personal disease... he died of a stroke" Eponyms: Possessive or Nonpossessive?Give a Kiss to a Frog and it Will Turn into... A Neuropeptide: The Genealogy of the Bombesin-Like FamilyNomenclature of Persistent Carotid Vertebrobasilar AnastomosesInterthalamic Adhesion: Scruples About Calling a Spade a Spade?Herophilus' Press, Torcular and Confluens Sinuum: A Triple MistakeFrom Dante Alighieri's First Circle to Paul Donald MacLean's Limbic SystemElpenor's Syndrome: The Link Between One of Ulysses' Companions and the Tenth President of the Third French RepublicMunchausen Syndrome By Proxy: Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von Munchhausen, Hasn't Got Anything To Do With ItOedipus Complex: A Confession to a Berlin Otorhinolaryngologist that Became a Cornerstone of PsychoanalysisThe Brain in its Birthday Suit: No More Reason to be AshamedThe Pen Nib and the Bolt: The Rhomboid Fossa of the Fourth Ventricle or the Symbol of the Censorship of the Press?A Concert Hall for Stringed Musical Instruments Under the Splenium of the Corpus CallosumThe Cerebellum the Earthworm and the Freshwater Crayfish: An Unpublished Fable of Jean de La Fontaine?Korbinian Brodmann: The Victor Hugo of Cytoarchitectonic Brain MapsBrain Heraldic Tinctures and Evolution Theory: A Sensational Turn of Events That Should Have Been Kept SecretRenfield's Syndrome: A Psychiatric Illness drawn From Bram Stoker's Dracula "Matthew Effect" in NeurosciencesIs Poetry a Disease of the Brain, as Alfred de Vigny Said?Between Andre Du Laurens' Horst Tail and William Cadogan's Pony TailKanashibari ( ): A Ghost's Business"Magic Mirror in my Hand, Who is the Fairest in the Land... and, Incidentally, Are You Transparent or Shining?"Trigeminal Neuralgia: Pleonasm and MiscalculationHallervorden-Spatz Disease: Did One Set the Fox to Mind the Geese?The sleeping brain: Extenuating circumstances of the Marquis de La Fayette on October 6, 1789The devil always experienced malicious pleasure in imposing himself in neuropsychiatric nosologyTabes dorsalis: Not, at all, "Elementary my dear Watson!"Ondine's curse: With Jean Giraudoux's finishing touchesMoyamoya ( ): When cerebral arteries go up in smokeMigraine: Between headache, pomegranate, seed of cochineal, and unidentified fish45. Phrenology: Scheherazade of etymology
