THE SEMINAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF JOHANN‐CHRISTIAN REIL TO ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND PSYCHIATRY

@article{Binder2007THESC,
  title={THE SEMINAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF JOHANN‐CHRISTIAN REIL TO ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND PSYCHIATRY},
  author={Devin K Binder and Karl Schaller and Hans Clusmann},
  journal={Neurosurgery},
  year={2007},
  volume={61},
  pages={1091–1096}
}
JOHANN-CHRISTIAN REIL (1759–1813) was a prominent German physician, anatomist, physiologist and a professor at the Universities of Halle and Berlin. Anatomic features named after him include the island of Reil (insula), Beau-Reil cross furrows, Reil's finger, the fillet of Reil, and Reil's triangle. In 1795, he founded the first German journal of physiology, Archiv für die Physiologie. Later, he would also be considered the founder of German psychiatry (the “German Pinel”) and coined the term… Expand
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Johann Christian Reil (1759–1813) who first described the insula
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The German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist, and physiologist Johann Christian Reil (Fig. 1) was born on 20 February 1759 in Rhaude, Ostfriesland and died in his sister’s house in Halle in 1810. Expand
Johann Christian Reil and the naming of our specialty
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Reil’s skills were held in high regard and many leading citizens sought him out to be their doctor. An indication of this comes from his treatment of his most famous patient, Johann Wolfgang von… Expand
Johann Cristian Reil on the 200th anniversary of the first description of the insula (1809)
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The insula has been given many other names over the years since Reil first identified it, including “the central lobe”, ‘the fifth lobe of the brain’, “intersylvian convolutions” and “intralobular gyri”. Expand
LOS APORTES DE JOHANN CHRISTIAN REIL AL NACIMIENTO DE LA PSIQUIATRÍA
The Rhapsodieen by Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813), edited in 1803, gave a crucial boost to care and treatment reforms for the mentally ill in Prussia. Reil, professor at the University of Halle,… Expand
‘The principles of a future pharmacology’: Johann Christian Reil (1759–1813) and his role in the development of clinical pharmacology
  • A. Gaw
  • Medicine
  • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
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Although rarely mentioned in the pharmacological literature today, Reil’s work in the late eighteenth century is an important precursor of the modern approach to the evaluation and testing of drugs in clinical practice. Expand
A History of the Lobes of the Brain.
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The history of the lobes of the brain is recounted with emphasis on the contributions of Thomas Willis (1664), Felix Vicq d'Azyr (1796), François Chaussier (1807), and Louis Pierre Gratiolet and François Leuret (1857) into one of the most widely accepted concepts in neuroanatomy. Expand
Historical Perspectives on the Behavioral Function of the Insula
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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Narcissism
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Contributions of the Insula to Cognition and Emotion
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Functional neuroimaging studies have found insula hyper-activations, typically in conjunction with anterior cingulate cortex, for all manner of experimental tasks including those involving perception, intentional action, and consciousness. Expand
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