Rhinencephalon, Tabes dorsalis and Elpenor's Syndrome

Régis Olry, MD, MSC (France), is Professor of Anatomy at the University of Québec, Trois-Rivières, Canada, and has previously held faculty positions in Germany (Heidelberg and Marburg). He has published numerous articles and three books on the history of anatomical terminology, and has received awards for university teaching and his articles on the origins of words and phrases in the neurosciences. Duane E. Haines, PhD, has held faculty positions at Wake Forest, Mississippi, West Virginia (Professor and Chairman), and at Medical College of Virginia. He is the author of numerous scientific papers and 15 books, including a brain atlas and a neuroscience text. He has held offices in scientific organizations and participated in the writing of Nomina Anatomica.

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?



Lasthénie de Ferjol’s Syndrome: A Tribute Paid by Jean Bernard to Jules Amédée 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 Münchhausen, 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 André Du Laurens’ Horst Tail and William Cadogan’s Pony Tail



Kanashibari (金縛り): 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 (もやもや): When cerebral arteries go up in smoke



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

45. Phrenology: Scheherazade of etymology