title: Understanding Edward Muybridge: historical review of behavioral alterations after a 19th-century head injury and their multifactorial influence on human life and culture.
abstract: Edward Muybridge was an Anglo-American photographer, well known for his pioneering contributions in photography and his invention of the "zoopraxiscope," a forerunner of motion pictures. However, this 19th-century genius, with two original patents in photographic technology, made outstanding contributions in art and neurology alike, the latter being seldom acknowledged. A head injury that he sustained changed his behavior and artistic expression. The shift of his interests from animal motion photography to human locomotion and gait remains a pivotal milestone in our understanding of patterns in biomechanics and clinical neurology, while his own behavioral patterns, owing to an injury to the orbitofrontal cortex, remain a mystery even for cognitive neurologists. The behavioral changes he exhibited and the legal conundrum that followed, including a murder of which he was acquitted, all depict the complexities of his personality and impact of frontal lobe injuries. This article highlights the life journey of Muybridge, drawing parallels with Phineas Gage, whose penetrating head injury has been studied widely. The wide sojourn of Muybridge also illustrates the strong connections that he maintained with Stanford and Pennsylvania universities, which were later considered pinnacles of higher education on the two coasts of the United States.
authors.affiliation: Departments of 1 Neurosurgery and.
authors.forename: Sunil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Manjila
authors.affiliation: Neurology, and.
authors.forename: Gagandeep
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Neurology, and.
authors.forename: Ayham M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Alkhachroum
authors.affiliation: Neurology, and.|Divisions of Neurocritical Care and Stroke, Neurological Institute, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
authors.forename: Ciro
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ramos-Estebanez
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000569:Americas; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D003469:Culture; D005197:Famous Persons; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000266:history*; D010781:Photography / Q000266:history; D014742:Videodisc Recording / Q000266:history
keywords: Muybridge; behavioral neurology; history of medicine; obsessive-compulsive; orbitofrontal cortex; photography; traumatic brain injury; zoopraxiscope