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- Title
Milestones of neural sciences in Turkey.
- Authors
Salihoğlu, Arif Kamil
- Abstract
Observing undergone trepanation skulls found in the Neolithic period in Turkey, they show us how neuroscience is an ancient science in Anatolia. Herophilus of Chalcedon from the Ancient Age dissected human cadavers for the first time in history and used the term "neuron" for the first time. In the 2nd century, Galen of Pergamon identified many neurological conditions such as the origin of voluntary movement, hemiplegia, spinal cord trauma, delirium, dementia, coma, lethargy, etc. Sabuncuoglu Serefeddin in Amasya prepared the first detailed and illustrated surgical atlas in the history of Turkish medicine in the 15 th century. When Sakir Pasha who is assistant of Claude Bernard, founder of modern physiology, returned to Turkey; he has started to give lessons in neurophysiology, established the first experimental physiology laboratory, in the 19th century. In the early 20th century, Mazhar Osman worked with renowned neuroscientists of those times, such as, Emil Kraepelin and Walther Spielmeyer; and oriented neuroscience students to various European cities from Turkey. In the middle of the 20th century, Gazi Yaşargil, a successful neurosurgeon, was the pioneer of microneurosurgery and was selected "the Man of the Century" by the American Neurosurgery Association. Considering the prehistoric times to the present, Anatolian territories seem to continue to grow powerful minds in the field of neuroscience.
- Subjects
TURKEY; NEUROSCIENCES; TURKISH history; NEOLITHIC Period; HISTORY of medicine; MEDICAL cadavers
- Publication
Anatomy: International Journal of Experimental & Clinical Anatomy, 2019, Vol 13, Issue S1, pS78
- ISSN
1307-8798
- Publication type
Article