Stereotactic Method

Abstract

A number of devices (electrode scalpels, myelotomes) for ensuring the relatively accurate introduction of instruments into desired brain and spinal cord structures of experimental animals were described in the second half of the last century. The first such devices (Dittmar, 1873; Woroschiloff, 1874) consisted of a simple guide and a miniature scalpel to make lesions in the motor and sensory pathways of the medulla oblongata and spinal cord of a rabbit.

Science advances in spurts, depending on the achievements of methodology. With each new step in methodology, we seem to rise one step higher, from which a broader horizon opens up before us, revealing hitherto unseen objects . I. P. Pavlov