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by Charles G Gross


  Poussin, N., 151

  Practica Chirurgiae (Roger of Parma), 16

  Practice of Physick, The (Riverius), 16

  Practice of Surgery, The (Roger of Parma), 122

  Pribram, Karl, 272

  Principia (Newton), 70

  Principles of Psychology ( James), 275

  Privatdozents (assistant professors), 78

  Profile orientation, 147–149

  Project Ozma, 156n4

  Prussians, 78

  Psychic pneuma, 82

  Psychoacoustics

  echolocation and, 247, 253, 255–256, 261

  World War II and, 254–255

  Psychology, 252

  Bosch and, 119–122

  cognitive ethology and, 257–260

  conditioned reflex and, 268

  enantiomorphs and, 134

  grandmother cells and, 263–281

  mirror images and, 131–156

  pontifical cells and, 275–276

  stone operations and, 17, 119–122, 126, 129

  Psychophysics, 254

  Psychosurgery, 117

  art and, 119–129

  Bosch and, 119–122, 126–129

  trepanation and, 17, 122–129

  Ptolemy, 54, 56–57

  Ptolemy I, 27

  Pulleys, 42–44

  Punctate localization

  cerebral cortex and, 93–95, 110–111, 202

  electrical stimulation and, 110–111

  phrenology and, 93–95, 202

  Pyramid Age, 80

  Pyramidal cells, 83

  Quasi–neuron theory, 180

  Quattuor magistri (medical text), 16

  Quinton, René, 195

  Racism, 5, 21n4, 78

  Radar, 253

  Radioactivity, 135, 144

  Raffalovich, Marie, 190–191

  Rakic, Pasko, 232–233

  Ramón y Cajal, S., 1, 229

  Rape of the Sabine Women, The (Poussin), 149, 152–153

  Raphael, 144

  Reading, 136

  cultural bias and, 147

  dyslexia and, 141–143, 155–156, 157nn17,18

  mirror images and, 141–143

  profile orientation and, 147, 149

  Reading Woman ( Janssen), 144

  Redfield, Alfred C., 248

  Redfield, Mary Whitney, 247

  Reflexology, 259

  Religion, 45–46

  Bosch and, 119

  Calvinism and, 161

  evil eye and, 62

  Galen and, 42

  Swedenborg and, 88–89

  Rembrandt, 118

  accuracy of, 172, 174

  Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Joan Deijman, 161, 168–171, 174

  Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicloaes Tulp, 166– 168, 171–172, 174

  dissections and, 161, 163, 166–174, 176

  mirror images and, 144

  success of, 168

  Renaissance, 1. See also Art

  anatomy lessons and, 161, 163, 166–174, 176

  Galen and, 32

  poetry and, 65

  trepanation and, 8, 10, 12–13, 17

  Rete mirabile, 35

  Retina

  extramission theories and, 57, 59–60, 68

  grandmother cells and, 266, 270, 275, 277

  Reynolds, Joshua, 171

  Richter, Curt, 196

  Ristau, Carol, 257

  Riverius, 16

  Robin, Charles, 193

  Rocca, J., 46

  Rockefeller University, 234, 257

  Roger of Parma, 16, 122

  Rolleston, George, 107

  Romanes, George, 258

  Roman Empire, 8, 30

  Rosvold, Hal, 33–34, 62, 149, 268

  Roth, Philip, 264–266

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 185

  Royal Commission, 99

  Royal Society, 84, 106–108, 126, 204

  Rubens, 144

  Russia, 268, 272

  Ruysch, Frederik, 84

  Salinity, 194–196

  Sarton, G., 32

  Schlomoh d’Arles, Gershon ben, 47

  Science, 1, 179–181

  Bernard and, 183–198

  goals of, 247

  Ideologues and, 185

  neurogenesis and, 229–242

  Panizza and, 201–225

  truth and, 205

  Science journal, 68, 232

  Scultetus, Johannes, 129

  Seawater, 194–196

  Secretin, 195

  Sensation, 192

  brain and, 26–30, 36–37, 46–47, 53, 88, 264, 272–274, 277–281

  conditioned reflex and, 268

  cultural bias and, 147, 149, 151

  electrical stimulation and, 77–80 (see also Electrical stimulation)

  extramission theories and, 53–73

  feeling of being stared at, 68–69

  grandmother cells and, 263–281

  heart and, 28, 37–38, 46–47

  hierarchical processing and, 270

  inferior temporal (IT) cortex and, 272–274, 277–278

  labeled line coding and, 274–276

  medial temporal lobe and, 279, 281

  mirror images and, 131–156

  muscle spasms and, 80, 106, 109

  reading and, 136, 141–143

  sensory nerves and, 82

  tongue and, 78

  vision and, 53–73 (see also Vision)

  Septimus Severus, 34

  Seton, Ernest Thompson, 247–248

  Seyfarth, Robert, 260

  Sherrington, C. S., 110–111, 195, 268, 275–276

  Sigerest, Henry, 194

  Simulacra, 55

  Skinner, B. F., 259, 268

  Smith, A. M., 72

  Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection, 99

  Sonar, 253

  Sophists, 33

  Soul, 28, 37, 88

  Spallanzani, Lazzaro, 251

  Specific nerve energy doctrine, 275

  Spina bifida, 172

  Spinal cord, 36–37, 42, 82, 88, 97

  Spurzheim, J. C., 89–90, 93, 202

  Squealing pig demonstration, 38–41, 45

  Squier, Ephraim George, 3–5, 21n1

  Starling, E. H., 195

  Steen, Jan, 17, 122

  Stevens, S. S., 254

  Stoics

  cardiocentric view and, 28–29

  Chrysippus and, 29, 37–38, 45

  Marcus Aurelius and, 29

  Plato and, 29

  sensation and, 37–38

  Zeno and, 28

  Stomach, 25, 196–197, 249

  Stone Operation, The (Bosch), 17, 120, 129

  Stone operations, 17, 117, 119–122, 126, 129

  Suga, Nobuo, 255

  Sumerians, 60

  Superior temporal face area (STS-FA), 278

  Superstition, 19

  evil eye and, 53, 60, 62, 65

  feeling of being stared at, 68–69

  Swammerdamm, Jan, 82

  Swedenborg, Emanuel, 88–89, 180, 198, 238–239

  Swedenborgian Church, 88

  Symmetry. See Mirror images

  Syria, 32, 34

  Talmud, 62

  Tamburini, A., 204

  Tan, 95

  Teleology

  Aristotle and, 41–42

  Creator and, 44

  Galen and, 41–42, 45–46

  Thymidine autoradiography, 230, 233

  Timeaus (Plato), 28, 45, 53, 65

  Titchener, E. B., 68

  Transactions of St. Andrews Medical Graduates’ Association, 97

  Tre fines, 8, 10

  Trepanation

  Africa and, 8, 17–20, 122

  alternative medicine and, 18–19

  anesthesia and, 12, 18, 20, 22n19

  bleeding and, 11

  Broca and, 5–6, 8

  Chinese medicine and, 10, 12, 19

  crown saw and, 8

  definition of, 3

  depressed fractures and, 5, 11�
��13, 19, 122

  dural membrane and, 11–13, 18–19

  as empirical procedure, 19

  epilepsy and, 13, 16–17

  gender and, 6

  Greek medicine and, 8, 10–12, 16, 19

  headaches and, 12, 17–19

  heat and, 11

  Hippocratic school and, 11, 122

  history of, 3–23

  hospitals and, 5, 13, 19, 126

  humors and, 12, 16

  infection and, 5, 13, 20

  International Colloquium on Cranial Trepanation in Human History and, 19-20

  International Trepanation Advocacy Group and, 18

  Internet and, 18-20

  intracerebral pressure and, 11, 13, 18-19

  mental disease and, 13, 16-17, 119-122, 126, 129

  methods of, 6-8, 11

  Paleolithic period and, 122

  prophylactic, 13

  purpose of, 10

  as relieving pressure, 11, 13, 18-19

  in Renaissance art, 17, 122-129

  scraping and, 6, 8, 18

  Squier and, 3-5

  stone operations and, 17, 117, 119-122, 126, 129

  survival of, 5, 12-13, 18

  timing of, 13

  tre fines and, 8, 10

  trepan vs. trephine terms and, 8-10

  tumi knife and, 6

  Western medicine and, 1, 10, 12-13, 20

  Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory (International Colloquium on Cranial Trepanation in Human History), 19

  Trephine saw, 8

  Trichromatic theory of color, 275

  Tripartite soul, 28

  Tropisms, 259

  Tuareg nomads, 17

  Tuber cinereum, 205, 209

  Tuebingen, 89

  Tulp, Nicolaes, 166-168, 171-174

  Tumi knife, 6

  Turkey, 30

  Ultrasonic sound, 247, 251-252

  United States, 13, 147

  University of New Mexico, 232

  University of Padua, 203

  University of Paris, 5

  University of Pavia, 203

  Uterus, 25, 33

  Vagus nerve, 38, 44

  Valve of Tulpus, 172

  Van Eyck, Jan, 72

  Van Gogh, Vincent, 144

  Vanvitelli, L., 72

  Vayu principle, 34

  Venous valves, 10

  Vermeer, J., 72

  Vertigo, 191

  Vesalius, Andreas, 35, 37, 45, 169

  Victoria, Queen of England, 99

  Victoria Street Society, 99-100

  Vision

  action potential and, 275

  Alhazen’s synthesis and, 56-57

  color and, 55-57, 275

  cultural bias and, 147, 149, 151

  evil eye and, 53, 60, 62, 65

  extramission theories and, 53–73

  feeling of being stared at, 68–69

  fire in eyes and, 53–54, 57, 59–60

  Fritsch and, 78

  Galen and, 33, 54, 56–57

  geometry and, 54, 56–57

  glance curve and, 149, 151

  grandmother cells and, 263–281

  hierarchical processing and, 270

  history of science and, 56–57, 69–70

  humor and, 57, 215

  impetus theory and, 69

  inferior temporal (IT) cortex and, 272– 274, 277–278

  intromission theories and, 54–56

  isomorphic images and, 55

  Kepler and, 56–57

  labeled line coding and, 274–276

  medial temporal lobe and, 279, 281

  mirror images and, 131–156

  motion and, 67–70

  naive understanding of, 66–69

  night, 254

  optic nerve and, 57, 59

  parietal lobe and, 100

  Perspectivism and, 72

  phosphenes and, 53, 57, 59–60

  photorealism and, 70, 72

  Plato and, 53–54

  Pressure on eye and, 57, 59–60

  reading and, 136, 141–143

  retina and, 57, 59–60, 68, 136, 266, 270, 275, 277

  self-reflection and, 57

  trichromatic theory and, 275

  visual cortex and, 201–225

  Winer-Cottrell studies and, 66, 69, 72

  Visual cortex

  animal experiments and, 203–225

  cerebral peduncles and, 205, 209–210, 214–215, 218, 220–221

  infundibulum and, 205, 214, 220, 225

  optic thalamus and, 202–223, 226n20

  Panizza and, 201–225

  Vitalism, 190

  Vivisection, 82

  animals and, 36, 99–100, 185–186

  antivivisectionists and, 99–100, 185–186, 190, 192

  human, 82

  Martin and, 190

  Volta, Alessandro, 83

  von Frisch, Karl, 256

  von Gudden, J. B. A., 203

  von Haller, Albrecht, 89, 95, 97, 201–202

  Wald, George, 254

  Waterman, Talbot, 251

  Watson, J. B., 196, 252, 259

  Wei dynasty, 12

  Welsh, John, 249

  West Riding Lunatic Asylum, 98, 102, 107

  Weydmans, Nicolaes, 122

  Wiesel, T. N., 270, 273

  Wikipedia, 70

  Willis, Thomas, 16, 84–87, 89, 126

  Winer, G. A., 66, 69, 72

  Wisdom of the Body, The (Cannon), 196

  Wölfflin, H., 149, 151

  Woodall, John, 10

  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 248

  Woolsey, C. N., 111

  World War II era, 254–255

  Wren, Christopher, 84

  Wu, Chien-Shung, 134–135, 144

  X–rays, 17

  Yale Medical School, 232–233

  Yellow Emperor’s Classic (Chinese medical text), 25

  Yeo, G. F., 100

  Young, Thomas, 275

  Zeno, 28

  Zola, Émile, 192

  Zoology. See Animals

 

 

 


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