Rhinencephalon, Tabes dorsalis and Elpenor's Syndrome

Rhinencephalon: A Brain for the Nose?



Fornix and Gyrus fornicates: Carnal Sins?



Cerebral Mythology: A Skull Stuffed With Gods



The Three Musketeers and the Twelve Cranial Nerves



Just What is the Inferior Cerebellar Peduncle?



Vague, Uncertain, Ambiguous, Obscure: Imprecision or Modesty?



Vater, Pacini, Wagner, Meissner, Golgi, Mazzoni, Ruffini, Merkel and Krause: Were their nerves all on edge?



The Subfornical and Subcommissural Organs: Never-Ending Rediscoveries



Arachnophobia: Spiders and Spider's Webs in the Head



Claustrum: A Sea Wall Between the Island and the Shell?



Phantom Limb: Haunted Body?



Lasthenie de Ferjol's Syndrome: A Tribute Paid by Jean Bernard to Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly



Ansa Hypoglossi or Ansa Cervicalis: That is the Question...



Reissner's Fibre: The Exception Which Proves the Rule, or the Devil According to Charles Baudelaire?



If there are "Deep" Cerebellar Nuclei, Where are the "Superficial" Ones?



"James Parkinson did not die of his own personal disease... he died of a stroke" Eponyms: Possessive or Nonpossessive?



Give a Kiss to a Frog and it Will Turn into... A Neuropeptide: The Genealogy of the Bombesin-Like Family



Nomenclature of Persistent Carotid Vertebrobasilar Anastomoses



Interthalamic Adhesion: Scruples About Calling a Spade a Spade?



Herophilus' Press, Torcular and Confluens Sinuum: A Triple Mistake



From Dante Alighieri's First Circle to Paul Donald MacLean's Limbic System



Elpenor's Syndrome: The Link Between One of Ulysses' Companions and the Tenth President of the Third French Republic



Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy: Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von Muenchhausen, Hasn't Got Anything To Do With It



Oedipus Complex: A Confession to a Berlin Otorhinolaryngologist that Became a Cornerstone of Psychoanalysis



The Brain in its Birthday Suit: No More Reason to be Ashamed



The Pen Nib and the Bolt: The Rhomboid Fossa of the Fourth Ventricle or the Symbol of the Censorship of the Press?



A Concert Hall for Stringed Musical Instruments Under the Splenium of the Corpus Callosum



The Cerebellum the Earthworm and the Freshwater Crayfish: An Unpublished Fable of Jean de La Fontaine?



Korbinian Brodmann: The Victor Hugo of Cytoarchitectonic Brain Maps



Brain Heraldic Tinctures and Evolution Theory: A Sensational Turn of Events That Should Have Been Kept Secret



Renfield's Syndrome: A Psychiatric Illness drawn From Bram Stoker's Dracula



"Matthew Effect" in Neurosciences



Is Poetry a Disease of the Brain, as Alfred de Vigny Said?



Between Andre Du Laurens' Horst Tail and William Cadogan's Pony Tail



Kanashibari (???): A Ghost's Business



"Magic Mirror in my Hand, Who is the Fairest in the Land... and, Incidentally, Are You Transparent or Shining?"



Trigeminal Neuralgia: Pleonasm and Miscalculation



Hallervorden-Spatz Disease: Did One Set the Fox to Mind the Geese?



The sleeping brain: Extenuating circumstances of the Marquis de La Fayette on October 6, 1789



The devil always experienced malicious pleasure in imposing himself in neuropsychiatric nosology



Tabes dorsalis: Not, at all, "Elementary my dear Watson!"



Ondine's curse: With Jean Giraudoux's finishing touches



Moyamoya (????): When cerebral arteries go up in smoke



Migraine: Between headache, pomegranate, seed of cochineal, and unidentified fish

45. Phrenology: Scheherazade of etymology