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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

• 117 Fusiform face area FFA

• 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

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