ABSTRACT
Working in Dublin in 1944, during the Second World War, Erwin Schrodinger published a book which had an enormous influence on the history of biological science in the second half of the twentieth century. After the Second World War, some of the brightest physicists decided not to go into theoretical physics but instead to try their hand at biology. The identity of objects and their color is taken up by a set of retinal ganglion cells and conveyed via the structure called the dorsal lateral geniculate of the thalamus, which acts as an interface between the external world and the neocortex, to the primary visual (or striate) cortex in the occipital lobe at the back of the head. The other main projecting pathway is concerned with determining where an object is located in visual space. Hypertension leads to a breakdown of the vasculature and hence to vascular stroke resulting in the destruction of certain parts of the brain.
