Shown here is the molecular layer containing pyramidal cells and glia.
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This illustration, shown courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, shows neurosurgery in 1666.
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This depiction of madness in Paris in 1823 is shown courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
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This drawing of the base of the brain comes from a 1664 book by Willis. It is shown courtesy of th National Library of Medicine.
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Cranial nerve nuclei are shown in this 1918 engraving.
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This WHO photograph is presented courtesy of WHO and the National Library of Medicine. It shows an EEG being done to study a seizure.
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Neurotic disorders are depicted in this drawing shown courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
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This medieval woodcut, shown courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, shows a priest healing a posessed woman. One of the eary thoeries of mental disease was demonic possession. This was thought to be a Hell of a theory at the time, but was discarded in favor of neuroscience.
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This 1918 engraving from Gray's Anatomy shows a transverse section of the medulla oblongata. The medulla oblongata runs into the medulla spinalis, the technical name for the spinal chord.
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This 19th century engraving shows the traquilizing chair uses by Dr. Benjamin Rush in his psychiatric practice. Rush believed that bad "humors" caused mental disease. The "humors" were the bodily fluids, including the blood, the bile, etc. There is some truth to this, although the theory was discarded when Virchow came along. Virchow thought that diseases were caused by cellular pathology. Both theories may be correct. The cellular pathology could be caused by toxic factors, as it is in alcoholism and drug abuse.
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