Year: 2019
Type: supplementary-materials
Abstract: Plate 2.8 "Softening of the brain." From Richard Bright's "Reports of Medical Cases (1827-1831)" [65].Aquatint, drawn by Frederick Richard Say, engraved by William Say.Bright wrote: "The flatness of the convolutions and their breadth in the left hemisphere, when compared to the right, is very remarkable, and this was owing to the softened condition of the brain on that side.The fine membranes covering the brain exhibited, on the left hemisphere, the most extraordinary specimen of minute vascularity, which, with a very slight discoloration from blood which seemed to have exuded from the vessels, produced the strong red color here represented." The patient was a 28-yearold man with left-sided weakness; the mode of onset was not quite clear.(b) Plate 3.20 (b) MR NOVA showing reduced CO2 reactivity in the vessel territory of the right internal carotid artery.The patient presented with several episodes of jerking of the left leg that occurred only in the upright position, also called "limb-shaking TIAs."
Institutions: The University of Western Australia, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, NHS Forth Valley, University of Edinburgh, Northwestern University, Population Health Research Institute, University of Illinois Chicago, Hamilton Health Sciences, Michigan State University, McMaster University, National University of Singapore, National University Hospital, National University Health System, University of Bern
Language: English
Subfield: Neurology
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4232443143