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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

• 224 Emanuel Swedenborg armchair neuroanatomy

• 226 epilepsy Fyodor Dostoevsky Temporal lobe epilepsy

• 233 1874 Dr. Roberts Bartholomew pain-shocks brain of Mary Rafferty, censured and successful
• 235 Penfield maps brains with small stimulus, patient verbal feedback

• 236 Cortical homunculus

• 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

• 248 Hemispatial neglect 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

• 310 Broca / Dax affair

• 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