From Vesalius to tractography
Résumé
Vesalius rejected the existence of the rete mirabile in human not only because he was a talented anatomist butalso because he accepted and had the courage to fight the dominant tradition inherited from Galen. Such difficulties in the scientific approach obviously remain vivid, and should not be forgotten despite the development of modern tools for studying brain morphologyand function.History of medicine - Neuroanatomy - Whitematter - Anatomy - Brain