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The cerebral ventricles. From soul to sink
1Department of the History of the Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
Archives of Neurology
|October 6, 1997
Abstract:
The early concept that the cerebral ventricles harbor the soul began to break down only in the Renaissance. Thanks to determined anatomical studies and physiological considerations regarding the role played by the cerebrospinal fluid, the function of the ventricles was reduced to merely being a receptacle for metabolic waste.