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- Title
Jean Talairach: the man behind the cerebral stereotactic space.
- Authors
Zanello, Marc; Roux, Alexandre; Duriez, Philibert; Savoureux, Anne-Sophie; Vinckier, Fabien; Chrétien, Fabrice; Gavaret, Martine; Gorwood, Philip; Gaillard, Raphaël; Pallud, Johan
- Abstract
From the outset, Talairach designed a surgical head frame that could be replaced in the exact starting position for the surgical procedure itself, after the initial exploratory step.[4] He built his first stereotactic frame with a double grid system in 1947 at Paul Brousse Hospital.[1],[5] The Talairach stereotactic frame kept being improved until 1965 with a fifth-generation frame allowing for multidirectional trajectories. Brain resection began a little later, in 1960.[7] Epilepsy surgery was Talairach's "clinical masterpiece" but it was not received well. If epilepsy surgery was his major clinical contribution, Talairach's "scientific masterpiece" was his contribution to human brain anatomy. In September 1958, Marcel David offered Jean Talairach the first stereotactic operating room in France, dedicated to stereotactic neurosurgery and to neurophysiological explorations of the brain.
- Subjects
INTRAOPERATIVE monitoring; STEREOTAXIC techniques; NEUROSURGEONS; PHYSICIANS; ANATOMICAL specimens
- Publication
Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 2022, Vol 145, Issue 2, p411
- ISSN
0006-8950
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/brain/awab463