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Editorial
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Art and neurology have an obvious, but also a more subtle, relationship. Book illustration quickly followed the advent of printing with moveable type, and the brain was soon prominently displayed. Placed in a lush landscape, Jan von Calcar's plates for Vesalius's De fabrica (1543) are unambiguously artistic; and the colour lithography that decorated the neuropathological atlases of Robert Hooper (1826), Robert Carswell (1838) and Jean Cruveilhier (1829–1842), and the works of Charles Bell in the same era, are pictures—over and above their anatomical accuracies. Even when it was no longer necessary, many neuroscientists preferred to depict their work freehand rather than in photographs: thus, the works of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852–1934) and the surgical specimens of Harvey Cushing (1869–1939) sustained the role of the neuroscientist as artist. Turning the tables, painters have displayed neurological disorders in their works, as the anthologies of Paul Richer, and others, show. Thus, art
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