Shown here are Meynert and Chiari, two brilliant neurologists. Meynert wrote a book on the brain which was very controversial. He was ahead of his time.
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The German doctor Wilhelm Wundt wrote a book entitled "Physiological Psychology". Wundt was considered a psychologist.
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Dr. Emil Kraepelin was a brilliant German psychiatrist at the turn of the century. He described catatonia, "dementia praecox", "paraphrenia", et. The term "dementia praecox" has now been replace by the word "schizophrenia". The term "paraphrenia" is also no longer used. It means senile psychoses including what is now called "Alzheimer's disease".
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Shown here is the brilliant turn-of-the-century neuropathologist and psychiatrist Dr. Alois Alzheimer. In 1897 he published a brilliant paper detailing positive findings in "dementia praecox". In the 20th century he published an article about the terrible disease that now bears his name.
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Shown here is a drawing of pyramidal cell bodies in the cerebral cortex by Cajal. Although much of his work was done in the 19th century, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906. The Nobel Prize had not yet been started in the 19th century.
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This graphic shows the nucleus basalis of Meynert, named after the professor.
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The British naturalist Charles Darwin had the greatest impact of any 19th century scientist. His book "Origin of Species" explained his theory of natural selection.
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Shown here is Santiago Ramon y Cajal of Madrid, Spain. He was one of the most brilliant scientists to have come from Spain.
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Shown here is the brilliant Italian histologist Camilo Golgi, who was born in 1843 and died in 1926. The Golgi apparatus is named after him. He worked at the University of Pavia.
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Shown here is the brilliant Russian chemist Mendeleyev, who devised the periodic table of the elements. Korsakov was another brilliant 19th century Russian scientist.
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