An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

LORENTE DE NÓ, Rafael

2 entries
  • 10693

Studies on the structure of the cerebral cortex. I. Area entorhinalis. II. Continuation of the study of the Ammonic system.

J. Psychol. Neurol., 45, 381-438; 46, 113-177, 19331934.

Lorente de Nó "demonstrated structural evidence that the cortical areas of mammals are organized in a columnar manner rather than in horizontal layers, thus articulating for the first time the basic features of the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex" (Rodriguez and Verkhratsky, Rafael Lorente de Nó (1902-1990): The pioneer of physiologycal [sic] neuroanatomy).



Subjects: Neuroanatomy
  • 10692

A study of nerve physiology. 2 vols.

New York: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1947.

See, Jorge A. Larriva-Sahd, "Some predictions of Rafael Lorente de Nó 80 years later," Frontiers in neuoranatomy, 8 (2014) 147.



Subjects: Neurophysiology