Rhinencephalon, Tabes dorsalis and Elpenor's Syndrome

This book is a fascinating collection of various neuroscience terms coined over the last two centuries. Each of the 45 chapters in this book dives deep into the etymologies, vernacular subtleties and historical anecdotes relating to these terms.**

Autorentext

Régis Olry, MD, MSC (France), is Professor of Anatomy at the University of Québec, Trois-Rivières, Canada, and has previously held faculty positions in Germany (Heidelberg and Marburg). He has published numerous articles and three books on the history of anatomical terminology, and has received awards for university teaching and his articles on the origins of words and phrases in the neurosciences.

Duane E. Haines, PhD, has held faculty positions at Wake Forest, Mississippi, West Virginia (Professor and Chairman), and at Medical College of Virginia. He is the author of numerous scientific papers and 15 books, including a brain atlas and a neuroscience text. He has held offices in scientific organizations and participated in the writing of Nomina Anatomica. ****

Inhalt

1. Rhinencephalon: A Brain for the Nose?

2. Fornix and Gyrus fornicates: Carnal Sins?

3. Cerebral Mythology: A Skull Stuffed With Gods

4. The Three Musketeers and the Twelve Cranial Nerves

5. Just What is the Inferior Cerebellar Peduncle?

6. Vague, Uncertain, Ambiguous, Obscure: Imprecision or Modesty?

7. Vater, Pacini, Wagner, Meissner, Golgi, Mazzoni, Ruffini, Merkel and Krause: Were their nerves all on edge?

8. The Subfornical and Subcommissural Organs: Never-Ending Rediscoveries

9. Arachnophobia: Spiders and Spider's Webs in the Head

10. Claustrum: A Sea Wall Between the Island and the Shell?

11. Phantom Limb: Haunted Body?

12. Lasthénie de Ferjol's Syndrome: A Tribute Paid by Jean Bernard to Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

13. Ansa Hypoglossi or Ansa Cervicalis: That is the Question

14. Reissner's Fibre: The Exception Which Proves the Rule, or the Devil According to Charles Baudelaire?

15. If there are "Deep" Cerebellar Nuclei, Where are the "Superficial" Ones?

16. "James Parkinson did not die of his own personal disease he died of a stroke" Eponyms: Possessive or Nonpossessive?

17. Give a Kiss to a Frog and it Will Turn into A Neuropeptide: The Genealogy of the Bombesin-Like Family

18. Nomenclature of Persistent Carotid Vertebrobasilar Anastomoses

19. Interthalamic Adhesion: Scruples About Calling a Spade a Spade?

20. Herophilus' Press, Torcular and Confluens Sinuum: A Triple Mistake

21. From Dante Alighieri's First Circle to Paul Donald MacLean's Limbic System

22. Elpenor's Syndrome: The Link Between One of Ulysses' Companions and the Tenth President of the Third French Republic

23. Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy: Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von Münchhausen, Hasn't Got Anything To Do With It

24. Oedipus Complex: A Confession to a Berlin Otorhinolaryngologist that Became a Cornerstone of Psychoanalysis

25. The Brain in its Birthday Suit: No More Reason to be Ashamed

26. The Pen Nib and the Bolt: The Rhomboid Fossa of the Fourth Ventricle or the Symbol of the Censorship of the Press?

27. A Concert Hall for Stringed Musical Instruments Under the Splenium of the Corpus Callosum

28. The Cerebellum the Earthworm and the Freshwater Crayfish: An Unpublished Fable of Jean de La Fontaine?

29. Korbinian Brodmann: The Victor Hugo of Cytoarchitectonic Brain Maps

30. Brain Heraldic Tinctures and Evolution Theory: A Sensational Turn of Events That Should Have Been Kept Secret

31. Renfield's Syndrome: A Psychiatric Illness drawn From Bram Stoker's Dracula

32. "Matthew Effect" in Neurosciences

33. Is Poetry a Disease of the Brain, as Alfred de Vigny Said?

34. Between André Du Laurens' Horst Tail and William Cadogan's Pony Tail

35. Kanashibari (): A Ghost's Business

36. "Magic Mirror in my Hand, Who is the Fairest in the Land and, Incidentally, Are You Transparent or Shining?"

37. Trigeminal Neuralgia: Pleonasm and Miscalculation

38. Hallervorden-Spatz Disease: Did One Set the Fox to Mind the Geese?

39. The sleeping brain: Extenuating circumstances of the Marquis de La Fayette on October 6, 1789

40. The devil always experienced malicious pleasure in imposing himself in neuropsychiatric nosology

41. Tabes dorsalis: Not, at all, "Elementary my dear Watson!"

42. Ondine's curse: With Jean Giraudoux's finishing touches

43. Moyamoya (): When cerebral arteries go up in smoke

44. Migraine: Between headache, pomegranate, seed of cochineal, and unidentified fish

    45. Phrenology: Scheherazade of etymology