Carlo Giacomini

Carlo Giacomini (Sale, 29 November 1840 – Torino, 5 July 1898), was an Italian anatomist, neuroscientist, and a professor at the University of Turin who also made significant contributions in anthropology and embryology.

At the beginning of his scientific career, he conducted clinical trials with the physiologist Angelo Mosso that led to the first recording of human brain pulsations.

Since 1882, followed an in-depth study of brain morphology: describing the limbic lobe, a part of the hippocampal gyrus door today the name of band of Giacomini; deduced a complete work on the cerebral convolutions (1882).

[6] In 1886, he first described an abnormality of the cranio-vertebral, called Os Odontoideum, and realized that this anomaly could alter the motility of the passage cranio-spinal, anticipating the concept of spinal instability.

In 1876, he became the director of the Cabinet of Museum of Human Anatomy Luigi Rolando of Turin and in 1887 he became member of the Academy of Sciences of the same city.