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Neurosurgeon Robert W. Rand, but is desirable in cases where ordinary EEGs, made with electrodes placed on the scalp, fail to show clearly the side of the brain in which the misfiring is more pronounced. The deeply implanted electrodes, penetrating the temporal lobe to reach the hippocampus* or even part of the cerebellum, sometimes reveal focal areas of electrical misfiring that surface EEGs have missed entirely. If there is misfiring on only one side, it can usually be detected readily, and relieved by surgical removal of the proper piece of brain tissue. If there is misfiring on both sides, surgeons...
...more weirdly named for the objects their shapes suggested to ancient anatomists, e.g., amygdala (almond), torcular Herophili (wine press of Herophilus), hippocampus (sea horse), mammillary body (little breast, or nipple...
...hippocampus, connected with the mamillary body, is shaped like its namesake, the seahorse. The hippocampus builds up psychic emotion...
Psychic emotion occurs when a man sits down and gets angry by thinking about wrongs done to him by an enemy. In psychic emotion, therefore, the emotional impulse is initiated within the brain-that is, by the cerebral cortex. The incitation passes to the hippocampus, where it is built up into an emotional process. This passes through the mamillary body, thence to the gyrus cinguli and so back to the cortex where the emotional experience is felt...
Oats for a Hippocampus...