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

FLECHSIG, Paul Emil

2 entries
  • 1410

Die Leitungsbahnen im Gehirn und Rückenmark des Menschen auf Grund entwicklungsgeschichtlicher Untersuchungen dargestellt.

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1876.

Flechsig mapped out the motor and sensory areas of the cerebral cortex, and named the “pyramidal tract”. See Clarke & O'Malley, The human brain and spinal cord, p. 857, and pp. 277-81.
Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.



Subjects: NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Brain, including Medulla: Cerebrospinal Fluid
  • 12734

Neue Untersuchungen über die Markbildung in den menschlichen Grosshirnlappen.

Neurologisches Centrallblatt, 17, 977-996, 1898.

Flechsig devided the cytoarchitecture of the human brain into 40 areas.



Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy › Cytoarchitecture