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Adolf Meyer: the neuroanatomist and neuropsychiatrist behind Meyer's loop and its significance in neurosurgery

Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer’s work as a neuroanatomist is less well-known among the medical community. Using manuscripts by Harvey Cushing and by Meyer himself, Schijns and Koehler explore how Meyer’s anatomical studies enabled him to describe the temporal loop of the optic radiation, known today as ‘M...

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Autores principales: Schijns, Olaf E M G, Koehler, Peter J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31860084
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awz401
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description Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer’s work as a neuroanatomist is less well-known among the medical community. Using manuscripts by Harvey Cushing and by Meyer himself, Schijns and Koehler explore how Meyer’s anatomical studies enabled him to describe the temporal loop of the optic radiation, known today as ‘Meyer’s loop’.
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spelling pubmed-70896492020-03-27 Adolf Meyer: the neuroanatomist and neuropsychiatrist behind Meyer's loop and its significance in neurosurgery Schijns, Olaf E M G Koehler, Peter J Brain Dorsal Column Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer’s work as a neuroanatomist is less well-known among the medical community. Using manuscripts by Harvey Cushing and by Meyer himself, Schijns and Koehler explore how Meyer’s anatomical studies enabled him to describe the temporal loop of the optic radiation, known today as ‘Meyer’s loop’. Oxford University Press 2020-03 2019-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7089649/ /pubmed/31860084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awz401 Text en © The Author(s) (2019). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Guarantors of Brain. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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