Although, as will be subsequently pointed out, philosophical speculation on cerebral physiological problems long preceded the work on the finer anatomy of the cerebral cortex, the latter study, in turn, has preceded the more refined physiological investigations with which it has been associated during science's dizzy dash of the past six decades. It will be shown that a fairly well defined concept of cellular formation had already been evolved by 1870 when the centuries-old gestation period of neuro-physiology ended. Because of this real precedence, the cytoarchitectonic study in its narrow sense will be the first to be presented. Associated with this will be a glimpse at the embryology of the cortical layers, introduced to round out the survey. The valuable work of past investigators in myelo-architectonics has not been treated because it lacks the potentialities found in cytoarchitectonic studies. The phylogenetic aspect, though interesting, seems too far afield for a work of the magnitude of this presentation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.92944 |
| Date | January 1936 |
| Creators | Boldrey, Edwin Barkley |
| Contributors | (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | 3416527, 3416527, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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