Abstract
AD (Bud) Craig Princeton University Press, 2014, HB, 368pp, £19.57, 978-0691156767 As a medical student in the 1970s I learned that there were two pathways from the body to the brain; one entered the spinal cord and ascended to the brain on the ipsilateral side, carrying discriminatory and pressure touch, and proprioception; the other immediately crossed and ascended on the contralateral side, carrying pain, temperature and something that was (very) vaguely described as ‘fine’ touch. Both these pathways ascended to the midbrain (thalamus) then projected to the somatosensory cortex. End of story. Enter Bud Craig, a mathematician who strayed into a neuroscience class where they …
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