Neuroanatomy

1. Front Matter

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2. Degeneration Techniques

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Silver Impregnation of Degenerating Axon Terminals in the Central Nervous System: (1) Technic. (2) Chemical Notes

      • W. J. H. Nauta, P. A. Gygax

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   3. Selective Silver Impregnation of Degenerating Axons in the Central Nervous System

      • W. J. H. Nauta, Lloyd F. Ryan

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   4. Silver Impregnation of Degenerating Axons in the Central Nervous System: A Modified Technic

      • W. J. H. Nauta, P. A. Gygax

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   5. A Critical Review of Studies on Axonal and Terminal Degeneration

      • P. Glees, W. J. H. Nauta

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   6. Some Early Travails of Tracing Axonal Pathways in the Brain

      • Walle J. H. Nauta

      Pages 37-53

3. Brain and Behavior

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Hypothalamic Regulation of Sleep in Rats. An Experimental Study

      • W. J. H. Nauta

      Pages 57-88

   3. Subcortical Mechanisms in Emotional Behavior: Affective Changes Following Septal Forebrain Lesions in the Albino Rat

      • Joseph V. Brady, Walle J. H. Nauta

      Pages 89-96

   4. The Central Visceromotor System: A General Survey

      • Walle J. H. Nauta

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4. General Organization of the Central Nervous System

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   2. Hippocampal Projections and Related Neural Pathways to the Mid-Brain in the Cat

      • Walle J. H. Nauta

      Pages 117-139

   3. A Comparison of the Distribution of the Fornix System in the Rat, Guinea Pig, Cat, and Monkey

      • Elliot S. Valenstein, Walle J. H. Nauta

      Pages 140-166

   4. Ascending Axon Degeneration Following Anterolateral Cordotomy. An Experimental Study in the Monkey

      • William R. Mehler, Martin E. Feferman, Walle J. H. Nauta

      Pages 167-201

   5. Fibre Degeneration Following Lesions of the Amygdaloid Complex in the Monkey

      • W. J. H. Nauta

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   6. Neural Associations of the Amygdaloid Complex in the Monkey

      • Walle J. H. Nauta

      Pages 220-237

   7. The Isodendritic Core of the Brain Stem

      • E. Ramón-Moliner, W. J. H. Nauta

      Pages 238-262

   8. The Hypothalamic Distribution of the Stria Terminalis in the Rat

      • Lennart Heimer, Walle J. H. Nauta

      Pages 263-276

   9. Afferent Connections of the Habenular Nuclei in the Rat. A Horseradish Peroxidase Study, with a Note on the Fiber-of-Passage Problem

      • Miles Herkenham, Walle J. H. Nauta

      Pages 277-299

I received my first introduction to the brain sciences in 1936 and 1937, for me the second and third years of the 7-year medical school curriculum at the University of Leiden. During those years my interest in the subject was aroused in particular by the brilliant lectures of the physiologist G. C. Rademaker - a prominent former member of the Rudolf Magnus school - and the neurohistologist S. T. Bok, noted especially for his histometric studies of the cerebral cortex. Fascinated as I was by everything I learned about the brain from these outstanding teachers, toward the end of their courses I began to notice conspicuous gaps that separated neurophysiology from neuroanatomy. In fact, I could (or thought I could) detect a reasonable concordance between the two sciences only in case of some sensory and somatic-motor systems. For most other functions anatomical substrates seemed either poorly defined or, as in the case of the central viscero-endocrine system, hardly recognized at all. With all the arrogance of which a 20-year old student is capable I concluded that what the brain sciences needed was a new and more complete anatomy that emphasized in particular the continuity of, and convergences or interconnections between individual conduction systems. And I wistfully mused that perhaps at some time in the future I could make such an endeavour part of my own career.

• brain
• central nervous system
• cortex
• nervous system
• neuroanatomy
• physiology

• Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  Walle J. H. Nauta

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