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The insula was first described by Johann Christian Reil while describing cranial and spinal nerves and plexuses. [106] Henry Gray in Gray's Anatomy is responsible for it being known as the Island of Reil. [106] John Allman and colleagues showed that anterior insular cortex contains spindle neurons.
Johann Christian Reil (20 February 1759 – 22 November 1813) [1] was a German physician, physiologist, anatomist, and psychiatrist. He coined the term psychiatry – Psychiatrie in German – in 1808. [2] [3] Reil was one of five children, and was the son of a Lutheran pastor in Northwest Germany. He married Johanna Wilhelmine Leveaux in ...
It was led by the Provincial governor of Britannia, Suetonius Paulinus, who led a successful assault on the island in 60–61 CE, but had to withdraw because of the Boudican revolt. [2] In 77 CE, Gnaeus Julius Agricola 's thorough subjugation of the island left it under Roman rule until the end of Roman rule in Britain in the early 5th century CE.
The Fortunate Isles or Isles of the Blessed [1] [2] (Ancient Greek: μακάρων νῆσοι, makarōn nēsoi) [3] were semi-legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean, variously treated as a simple geographical location and as a winterless earthly paradise inhabited by the heroes of Greek mythology.
In neuroanatomy, the centrum semiovale, semioval center or centrum ovale [1] is the central area of white matter found underneath the cerebral cortex. [2] The white matter, located in each hemisphere between the cerebral cortex and nuclei, as a whole has a semioval shape.
Agranular insula is a portion of the cerebral cortex defined on the basis of internal structure in the human, [1] the macaque, [2] the rat, [3] and the mouse. [4] Classified as allocortex (periallocortex), it is in primates distinguished from adjacent neocortex (proisocortex) by absence of the external granular layer (II) and of the internal granular layer (IV).
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The Inaccessible Island rail is endemic to the uninhabited Inaccessible Island in the Tristan da Cunha group in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. [19] The island is 14 km 2 (5.4 sq mi) in area and has a temperate wet oceanic climate with high rainfall, limited sunshine and persistent westerly winds. [20]