Brain and aviation: on the 80th anniversary of Constantin von Economo’s (1876–1931) death

2011 marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Constantin Alexander von Economo who conducted advanced research on the cytoarchitectonics of the brain. This Austrian neurologist and the pioneer of aviation described encephalitis lethargica, discovered the spindle neurons, and postulated the existen...

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Autores principales: Sak, Jarosław, Grzybowski, Andrzej
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Milan 2012
Materias:
History of Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3586395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22569570
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10072-012-1111-0
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description 2011 marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Constantin Alexander von Economo who conducted advanced research on the cytoarchitectonics of the brain. This Austrian neurologist and the pioneer of aviation described encephalitis lethargica, discovered the spindle neurons, and postulated the existence of the sleep and wakefulness centre in the brain. What is more he realized two of the biggest dreams of humankind: conquering space and getting to know the secrets of the human brain.
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spelling pubmed-35863952013-03-07 Brain and aviation: on the 80th anniversary of Constantin von Economo’s (1876–1931) death Sak, Jarosław Grzybowski, Andrzej Neurol Sci History of Neurology 2011 marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Constantin Alexander von Economo who conducted advanced research on the cytoarchitectonics of the brain. This Austrian neurologist and the pioneer of aviation described encephalitis lethargica, discovered the spindle neurons, and postulated the existence of the sleep and wakefulness centre in the brain. What is more he realized two of the biggest dreams of humankind: conquering space and getting to know the secrets of the human brain. Springer Milan 2012-05-09 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3586395/ /pubmed/22569570 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10072-012-1111-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2012 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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