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3 unusual facts about neuroanatomy


Irena Chalmers

After completing her graduate work at the Neurological Institute in Queen's Square, London, she moved to the United States in 1960 to teach Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital Neurological Institute.

Joseph C. Sharp

Joseph Sharp received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroanatomy from the University of Utah.

Neuroanatomy

Mouse mutants: Rab23 is an essential negative regulator of the mouse Sonic hedgehog signaling pathway.


Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz

Waldeyer used the path-breaking discoveries by neuroanatomists (and later Nobel Prize winners) Camillo Golgi (1843–1926) and Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), who had used the silver nitrate method of staining nerve tissue (Golgi's method) to formulate a short brilliant synthesis, even though he did not contribute with any original observations.

Taung Child

Dean Falk, a specialist in neuroanatomy, declared that the Taung skull belonged to a young monkey.

Verbal memory

Verbal encoding appears to be strongly left-lateralized in the medial temporal lobe of the human brain, however, its functional neuroanatomy can vary between individuals.


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