The neuroanatomy of herophilus.

Arnaldi de Villanova opera medica omnia IV: Tractatus de consideracionibus operis medicine sive de flebotomia

Egyptian medical ideas and their possible influence on Herophilus and the other Greek doctors who practised in Alexandria by Egypt in the third century BC. The prefatory discussions are perhaps the most valuable of all, for they relate Herophilus to a much wider context. They offer judicious surveys of the development of Greek anatomy (von Staden rightly emphasizes the frontier colonialism of e...

Greek anatomist herophilus: the father of anatomy

One of the most stirring controversies in the history of Anatomy is that Herophilus, an ancient Greek anatomist and his younger contemporary, Erasistratus, were accused of performing vivisections of living humans. However, this does not detract from the fact that Herophilus has made phenomenal anatomical observations of the human body which have contributed significantly towards the understandi...

Herophilus and vivisection: a re-appraisal

P38: Neuroanatomy of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder of emotional and mental stress occurring as an outcome of injury or severe emotional shock. Several Neuroimaging studies in humans have shown the functions and relationship between the anatomical changes of brain and PTSD. The three major areas of the brain are affected by PTSD .These three areas are the amygdala, hippocampus and prefrontal cor...

Plastination and Staining of Brain Slices Using Two Different Dehydration Methods

Introduction: Unstained formalin-fixed whole brain specimens and brain slices do not give satisfactory results for teaching neuroanatomy. In addition, difficulties in obtaining human brains for dissection have increased the demand for more durable brain specimens that have been obtained by the plastination technique. In the present study brain specimens were sliced, fixed and stained using...