Rhinencephalon, Tabes dorsalis and Elpenor's Syndrome: The Fascinating Stories Behind These and Other Neuroscience Terms
Regis Olry (University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres),Duane E. Haines
Rhinencephalon, Tabes dorsalis and Elpenor’s Syndrome: The Fascinating Stories Behind These and Other Neuroscience Terms
Regis Olry (University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres),Duane E. Haines
This book is a fascinating collection of various neuroscience terms coined over the last centuries. Each of the 45 chapters in this book dives deep into the etymologies, vernacular subtleties and historical anecdotes relating to these terms.
The book illustrates the rich and diverse history of neuroscience, which has borrowed and continues to borrow terms and concepts from across cultures, literature and languages. The ever-increasing number of terms that needed to be coined with the mushrooming of the field required neuroscientists to show astonishing imagination and creativity, leading them to draw inspiration from Graeco-Roman mythology (Elpenor’s syndrome), literature (Lasthenie de Ferjol’s syndrome), theatre (Ondine’s curse), Japanese folklore (Kanashibari), and even the Bible (Matthew effect). This book will of be immense interest to scholars and researchers studying neuroscience, history of science, anatomy, psychology and linguistics. It will also appeal to any reader interested in learning more about neuroscience and its history.
All the chapters included in this book were originally published in a column that appeared from 1997 to 2020 in the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.
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