Lancisi's nerves and the seat of the soul

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 563-568

  Di Ieva, Antonio ^a   Tschabitscher, Manfred ^b   Y Baena, Riccardo Rodriguez ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Giovanni Maria Lancisi; Lancisi's nerves; Longitudinal striae

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; AUTHOR; AUTOPSY; BRAIN REGION; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HEART INFARCTION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL STRIAE OF CORPUS CALLOSUM; MENINX; MYELINATED NERVE; NEUROANATOMY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RELIGION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HUMANS; ITALY; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROANATOMY; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PORTRAITS;

EID: 33847391149     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000249283.46514.93     Document Type: Article

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