Naming and Numbering the Convolutions
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands Early anatomists failed to see order amidst the apparent chaos of the brain’s convolutions. It was only in the…
Functional MRI
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands Functional neuroimaging techniques, first positron emission tomography (PET) and later functional MRI (fMRI), have revolutionized cognitive neuroscience. These tools…
The Diagram Makers and Their Critics
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands In the late nineteenth century, the theory of localization was strongly supported by experimental evidence from both electrocortical stimulation…
Wernicke and Connectionism
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands Roughly a decade after Broca published his findings on the left frontal speech area, in 1874 Carl Wernicke (1848–1905)…
Broca and the Birth of Localization Theories
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands In 2009, Craig Bennett and his co-workers put a mature Atlantic salmon in an MRI scanner and showed it…
Recovery from Brain Damage
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands It has been known for ages that some form of spontaneous recovery usually follows a disabling injury. In the…
Aphasia or Agnosia?
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands Wernicke proposed that knowledge of the outside world was conceptualized and that the necessary information that makes up these…
Myofascial Trigger Points Comorbidity in Headache
Fig. 11.1 Referred pain elicited by TrPs in the cervical muscles: (a) sternocleidomastoid, (b) splenius capitis, (c) semispinalis capitis, (d) suboccipital and (e) upper trapezius Myofascial TrP pain referral patterns…
Temporomandibular Disorder Comorbidity
Local myalgia Myofascial pain with referral Arthralgia Headache attributed to TMD (DC/TMD) Headache attributed to TMD (ICHD – 3) Description Pain of muscle origin as described for myalgia with…
Cardio-cerebrovascular Comorbidity
Outcome/study Search limit (year of publication) Any migraine Migraine with aura Migraine without aura Studies (n) Effect estimates (95 % CI) Studies (n) Effect estimates (95 % CI) Studies (n)…
