title: A half-century of perpetuating Netter's anatomic error.
abstract: The 1953 drawing by Netter of the thalamus mistakenly placed the dorsolateral nucleus on the wrong side of the internal medullary lamina. This error has been perpetuated in the best known texts on neuroscience for over fifty years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurologic Surgery, University of Southern California, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Bogen
mesh_terms: D007839:Functional Laterality; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008488:Medical Illustration / Q000266:history*; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D009445:Neuroanatomy / Q000266:history*; D013787:Thalamic Nuclei / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D013788:Thalamus / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology