The Cortical Lamination of the Motor Area of the Brain (pp.38-49, 3 lith. Taf.).

Lewis, Bevan & Clarke Henry

Date d'édition : 1878

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Proc. roy. Soc., 27 (1878). - London, Taylor and Francis, 1878, 8°, X, 559, (1), V, (1) pp., Abbildungen, 12 Taf., Halbleinenband. First Print! "The existence of the giant pyramidal cells of the cerebral cortex was not widely accepted until the British psychiatrist Lewis verified the findings of Betz and added further morphological details. William Bevan Lewis (1847-1929), or Bevan Lewis and Bevan-Lewis, as he later called himself, was born at Cardigan in Wales and received his medical training at Guy's Hospital Medical School, London, where he was graduated in 1868. Thereafter he worked at the West Hiding Lunatic Asylum as pathologist and assistant medical officer and carried out his researches on the cortex. He later became professor of psychiatry in the University of Leeds and director of the asylum there. His first paper, written with Henry Clarke (1845-1909), medical officer to the West Riding Prison, appeared in 1878 ("The cortical lamination of the motor area of the brain," Proc. R. Soc., 1878, 27:38-49). Like Betz, the authors recognized the five-layered cortex of Meynert and gave a detailed description of "the ganglionic cells of the fourth layer." These were the Betz cells, the first illustrations of which appeared in this paper (fig. 113). Like Betz they defined a functional area on histological grounds and thereby helped to open the way for the study of precise, functional parcellation of the cerebral cortex. A few months later Lewis published another paper ("On the comparative structure of the cortex cerebri," Brain, 1878, 1:79-96) which extended the earlier observations in man and compared them to the motor area in the cat and to certain cortical regions in the sheep." Edwin Clarke & C.D. O'Malley, The Human Brain and Spinal Cord, pp.440-442.

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• Titre: The Cortical Lamination of the Motor Area of the Brain (pp.38-49, 3 lith. Taf.).
• Date de parution: 1878
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