Series Editors
MICHAEL J. AMINOFF, FRANÇOIS BOLLER, AND DICK F. SWAAB

2021

THE HCN VOLUMES ON THE HUMAN HYPOTHALAMUS. More than 20 years ago, I (DFS) had written a monograph on the human hypothalamus, meant as a starting point for my PhD students and the students of my former students, my scientifically gifted children and grandchildren. Traditionally the hypothalamus was considered to be a neuroendocrine structure of limited interest to neurologists. In addition, this extremely complex structure, which consists of a large number of very different functional nuclei, was not included in the standard neuropathologic investigation of the human brain. Neuropathologists were trained to cut right through the optic chiasma, thereby destroying the hypothalamus.