The Cerebellum and Adaptive Control
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 22, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780521018074
Subjects: Neurosciences; Physiology; Neuroscience; Medical; Sociology; Anthropology - Physical; Neurology - General; Medical / Neuroscience; Medical-Neurology - General; Medical-Neuroscience; Social Science / Anthropology / Physical
First sentence: In the introductory chapter of his magnificent three-volume monograph, The Comparative Anatomy and Histology of the Cerebellum, Olof Larsell (1967; Larsell and Jansen, 1972) provides a history of the cerebellum in its gross aspects, which reads in part as follows (additional historical details can be found in Clarke and O'Malley 1968): Herophilus (335-280 B.C.) is usually credited with recognition to the human cerebellum as a distinct division of the brain.