© Springer International Publishing AG 2017Frank J. Rybicki and Gerald T. Grant (eds.)3D Printing in Medicinehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61924-8_1 1. Introduction Gerald T. Grant1 and Frank J. Rybicki2 (1) Department of Oral Health and Rehabilitation, University of Louisville, School of Dentistry, Louisville,…
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands It is now well known that the brain is electrically excitable. Physicians frequently make use of electromagnetic properties to…
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, St Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands After World War II, the centre of gravity in aphasiology research shifted from Europe to North America [1]. In…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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)…
(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…
(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…
(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…
