This is just a mini post to pass the time before I get
around to writing the next one..
Here are a couple of links to two really cool posts on the Neuroskeptic blog, definitely my favourite blog and one which anybody with an interest in neuroscience and psychology should know about.
The posts contain cross sections of the human brain with different structures labelled with their scientific (usually latin, sometimes greek) names alongside the literal translations of those names- "etymological maps" of the brain. This prevalence of Latin names for brain structures is a hangover from the tradition beginning centuries ago that in some cases even stretched to the beginning of the 20th century where Latin was the accepted language for medical terminology. Consequently, to the unititated learning about brain anatomy can be quite intimidating or worse still people might completely switch off when they're met with a wall of unintelligible jargon.
