title: Reflections: a historical vignette.
abstract: vignette is a diminutive of vigne (vine) and at first was used in the form of a vine branch, e.g., to begin or end a chapter in a book or to frame a medieval miniature. By extension, it has taken on the meaning of image. This stereotactic vignette is by no means a historical account of functional stereotactic neurosurgery in the 1960s, but it is through a description of the evolution of my relationships with close colleagues in those early years that I attempt to recreate the atmosphere and medical dreams of this group of doctors, who were somewhat outside the mainstream of neurosurgery at that time.
authors.affiliation: Department Neurosciences and Psychiatry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. jangybels@skynet.be
authors.forename: Jan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gybels
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001530:Belgium; D001900:Boston; D005860:Germany, West; D000882:Haplorhini; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000266:history*; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D009657:North Carolina; D009864:Ontario; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation