当前位置： SCI文献检索 > JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY期刊下所有文献 > Luigi Rolando and his pioneering efforts to relate structure to function in the nervous system.

Luigi Rolando and his pioneering efforts to relate structure to function in the nervous system.

Abstract：

:The fissure separating the motor from the sensory cortex and the substantia gelatinosa capping the posterior horn of the spinal cord are still known by the name of the Italian anatomist Rolando, Luigi Rolando was born in Turin, Italy, in 1773 and died in 1831. His life was not easy, the first of his problems being the death of his father when Rolando was still very young. Three people were to be influential in his life and career: Father Maffei, his maternal uncle who raised him; Dr. Cigna, the anatomy professor who discovered his talent; and Dr. Anformi, a general practitioner who introduced him to the practice of medicine and to the best circles of the city. Forced to leave Turin by the Napoleonic invasion of the country, Rolando first stopped in Florence, where he learned about anatomical dissection, drawing, and engraving and studied the appearance of nervous tissue under the microscope. Later he went to Sardinia where, although cut off from European cultural circles, he developed his major theories. Rolando pioneered the idea that brain functions could be differentiated and located in specific areas and discovered the fixed pattern of cerebral convolutions, highlighting motor and sensory gyri. He demonstrated the complexity of the central gray matter of the spinal cord, describing the "substantia gelatinosa," and he deduced that nervous structures are connected in a network of nervous fibers linked by electrical impulses. Rolando had to struggle for recognition, however, as the priority of his discoveries was challenged by the almost contemporaneous work of Gall and Spurzheim on cerebral localization and of Flourens on cerebellar function. Nevertheless, his efforts contributed greatly to the clarification of brain function. His observations on nervous anatomy have been especially accurate, as shown by the nomenclature "fissure of Rolando."

journal_name

J Neurosurg

journal_title

Journal of neurosurgery

authors

Caputi F,Spaziante R,de Divitiis E,Nashold BS Jr

doi

10.3171/jns.1995.83.5.0933

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-11-01 00:00:00

pages

933-7

issue

eissn

0022-3085

issn

1933-0693

journal_volume

pub_type

传,历史文章,杂志文章

在线工具

Luigi Rolando and his pioneering efforts to relate structure to function in the nervous system.