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Brain Advance Access published online on May 30, 2007
Brain, doi:10.1093/brain/awm124
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Book Review

The thalamus revisited: where do we go from here?

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In my academic lifetime, two outstanding books on the thalamus have been published. Now both have been reissued as expanded, updated and improved second editions. The most massive of these, the second edition of The Thalamus by E.G. Jones, follows his 900-page, 1985 edition. While the early edition was truly remarkable, the two-volume, second edition of 1679 pages of expanded size represents an effort reminiscent of Polyak's 1390-page tome, The Vertebrate Visual System, published in 1957. Jones retains one of my favorite quotations from the first to the second volume, one attributed to the great neuroanatomist and neuroscientist, Jerzy Rose: ‘The thalamus is like the Flying Dutchman: many have heard of it, some believe in it, but few have actually seen it’ (c. 1940). Today, I am not sure how many have heard of the Flying Dutchman, a mythical sailing ship, but Jones’ first edition did much to correct uncertainties . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Jon H. Kaas

Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University


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