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Cellular structure of the human cerebral cortex
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The publication last year of a splendid facsimile volume and translation of one of the most spectacular histological brain atlases ever produced was a major event in neuroscience that was duly acknowledged in this journal (Jones, 2008
). Constantine von Economo and George N. Koskinas’ Die Cytoarchitektonik der Hirnrinde des erwachsenen Menschen, a giant atlas made up of a boxed set of 112 large format photomicrographs and an accompanying text volume, was published as 100 sets in 1925 by Julius Springer in Vienna, the costs of production being borne by von Economo himself. The 2008 facsimile of these atlas plates was published by Karger, under the direction of Dr Lazaros C. Triarhou who also provided a translation of their German descriptions (von Economo and Koskinas, 2008). In a brief, informative accompanying chapter, Dr Triarhou, a neuroscientist, provided biographical details of the original
Centre for Neuroscience,
University of California, Davis