The Tale Of The Dueling Neurosurgeons
The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
2014 Sam Kean . . 617.48 KEA . . Beaverton Library
rebuses: Introduction:Pons Ch1:Skull_bones Ch2:Gray_Matter Ch3:Neuron_Circuit Ch4:Occipital_Lobe Ch5:Motor_Cortex Ch6:Cerebellum Ch7:Limbic_System Ch8:Temporal_Lobe Ch9:Parietal_Lobe Ch10:Hippocampus Ch11:Corpus_Callosum Ch12:Frontal_Lobe
- 07 Sleep paralytic author
- 19 1559 French king Henri II jousting injury, splinter in eye, shock trauma
24 Royal (barber-)surgeon Ambroise Paré, invents new treatments
27 Spanish king sends royal physician Andreas Vesalius
29 1540 A.V. lists 200 anatomy errors of Galen
31 A.V. On the Fabric of the Human Body 1543
- 34 internal trauma, brain swelling, King dies July 10
35 A.V. and A.P. autopsy, rear brain damaged, contracoup injury, no lance shards in brain
- 37 Paré handbook for military surgeons, book about head wounds
- 39 Vesalius cures a prince (friar credited and canonized), later dies Zakynthos island Greece
- fooey, there was no duel, Paré and Vesalius collaborated
- 45 Charles Guiteau, disappointed office seeker p48 shoots Pres. Garfield in lower back July 2
48 Dr. Doctor Bliss (sic) confident fool, infected wound
- 52 Guiteau executed, brain autopsied, microscopic brain damage
53 1873 Camillo Golgi silver-stained brain, Cajal discovers separate neurons, axons drive dendrites, neuron doctrine
84 Synesthesia, mixing senses, color/sound, color/letters, sixty known types
- Feynman saw colored symbols in equations, random 2s among 5s pop out as colors (they pop out for me, but not as colors)
- 86 1938 Albert Hoffman LSD
- 89 no new or repaired neurons, but new pathways
90 Paul Bach-y-Rita neuroscientist, sensory subtitution, neuroplasticity
101 facial masks, Tatsuji Inouye maps occipital lobe,primary visual cortex from bullet path damage
110 Hubel and Wiesel neurons sense lines at specific angles, biased towards movement
- 113 "what" down to temporal lobes, "where" to parietal lobes
115 herpes ἕρπειν (herpein 'to creep') can migrate up olfactory nerves to the brain, specialized recognition circuits damaged, classes of objects disappear
- 120-126 face transplants
131-134 phantom limbs, fictional George Dedlow, Silas Weir Mitchell
152 novel Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker novel, Teddy Roosevelt favorite 2 volume used, ~$15 for pair
139 Minié rifle, horrible gaping wounds, 3 times deadlier, 90% of casualties
147 V. S. Ramachandran mirror box, "seeing" mirror limb abates pain, remaps brain
157 Papua New Guinea Kuru, women ate victim's brains
160 Carleton Gajdusek The Genius and the Boys, TV Movie 2009
168 William Hadlow, resembles Scrapie in sheep and goats
176 Stanley B. Prusiner 1970s Prions brain protein same sequence mangled shape
185 Harvey Cushing orders William Sharpe to steal pituitary from John “Giant” Turner corpse at funeral home
- 199 S.M. amydala damaged by
Urbach–Wiethe disease, no fear, other emotions intact
203 Klüver–Bucy syndrome hyperoral, indifferent to pain
- 205 One person's syndrome was another's lucky day
221 Wilder Penfield surgeon, sister's brain tumor removal 12/1928, she recovers some, then dies July 1931
224 Emanuel Swedenborg armchair neuroanatomy
- 233 1874 Dr. Roberts Bartholomew pain-shocks brain of Mary Rafferty, censured and successful
- 235 Penfield maps brains with small stimulus, patient verbal feedback
- 237 evidence of brain rewiring and shifting brain territories
- 238 Penfield thought locus of consciousness near brainstem, actually diffuse, later mind-body dualism
243 autumn 1919 Wilson tour promoting League of Nations, headaches
- probable strokes in 1896 and 1906 and on the cancelled tour October, intransigence torpedoed L.O.T.
246 Supreme Court William O. Douglas stroke 1975 anosognosia
250 Capgras delusion, replacement by imaginary imposter
- conscious recognition, no subliminal emotional recognition, opposite of face blindness
255 Jamais vu
256 Alien hand syndrome, damage to corpus collosum
260 Alice in Wonderland syndrome distortion of perception
262 Cotard's syndrome, believes self dead
269 Thiamine deficiency, beri beri from polished rice
271 Hugh de Wardener in Changi prison camp proves thiamine deficiency cause of beriberi
272 not alcohol Korsakoff syndrome or Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome WKS
278 Dr. William Beecher Scoville removes hippocampus of H. M., declarative memory amnesia, opposed to procedural/motor memory
283 and Short-term memory and Spatial memory
287 patient K. C. Semantic memory facts but not Episodic memory personal experiences
291 Solomon Shereshevsky (with synesthesia ) studied by Alexander Luria
- 296 act of remembering can rewrite memories
- 301 Simon Auburtin localization
304 Paul Broca patient "Tan" Broca's area rear frontal area, speech production
305 Msr. Lelong 5 words: Lelo (his name) oui, non, tois (~3) toujours (always)
306 Wernicke's area speech comprehension
- 308 second language distinct neural circuits, speech and singing different circuits
- 309 reading connects visual cortex to Wernicke's area, alexia sine agraphia
314 Sever Corpus callosum, stop seizures
318 Dual consciousness after corpus callosotomy
318 Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga experiments
- 319 left brain vs. right brain thinking
- 323 left brain confabulates what right brain does
- 325 portraits show left side of face, subjects facing left side of the canvas
- 326 Sigmund Freud and Richard Feynman trouble telling left from right
331 Phineas Gage 1848 injury
- 335 personality changes, many details not recorded
339 Clive Wearing composer, age 46 meningitis, always "just woken up"
- 344 joyful every time his wife visits
344 Krista and Tatiana Hoganconjoined-brain twins born British Columbia 2006
- 350 Gage move to Chile in 1852, returns 1859, died May 21 age 36, almost 12 years after accident
- 351 exhumed and examined by Dr. John Harlow in 1867, publishes case report 1868
- 355 end of discursive summation