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The demonstration to an audience of 2000 at the Chicago meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in October 1972 of a machine depicting computerized tomography of the brain marks a watershed in 20th century medicine. Beyond, a visiting Martian could be forgiven for concluding that clinical neuroscience is brain imaging. Before, the elite discipline was neurophysiology. A recent publication provides a rare insight into the lifetime contributions of one extant giant from that post-Sherringtonian generation in which neuroscientists focused on the correlation of structure and function at the single neurone and systems level. Vernon Mountcastle's The sensory hand is reviewed by Edward G. Jones (page 3413). After training in neuroscience in New Zealand and Oxford, and in subsequent posts in the United States (Washington University, St Louis and the Universities of California, Irvine and, now,