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GENNARI, Francesco (1750 – 1797)

GENNARI, Francesco (1750 – 1797)

1750 – 1797

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Francesco Gennari (1752-1797) · reprinted in: FULTON, J. F., 1937. " A Note on Francesco Gennari and the Early History of Cytoarchitectural Studies of the Cerebral Cortex ", in Bulletin of the Institute for the History of Medicine, V, pp. 895-913. · Public domain

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1782 CE

#1384

De peculiari structura cerebri, nonnulisque ejus morbis.

GENNARI, Francesco (1750 – 1797)
GENNARI, Francesco (1750 – 1797)

Gennari was the first to demonstrate the laminar structure of the cerebral cortex when he discovered the line of Gennari, a macroscopically white band in the cerebral cortex of the occipital lobe. This he observed on …