Claustrum review paper ['What is the function of the claustrum?']

Date:: 1960-2004

Reference:: PP/CRI/L/1/8/27

Part of:: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Francis Crick (1916-2004): archivesPP/CRI
- Notes, Drafts and Models [1976]-2004PP/CRI/L
  - 'Notes, Drafts and Lectures' 1982-2004PP/CRI/L/1
    - 'Notes, Drafts and Lectures' 2002-2004PP/CRI/L/1/8
      - Claustrum review paper ['What is the function of the claustrum?']PP/CRI/L/1/8/27
        Claustrum DraftsPP/CRI/L/1/8/27/1
        Background materials by Crick and KochPP/CRI/L/1/8/27/2
        Background materials by othersPP/CRI/L/1/8/27/3

About this work

Description

Several months before his death, Crick had written a position paper suggesting that the Salk Institute's Crick-Jacobs Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology focus its work on the claustrum, a part of the brain amenable to both molecular and cellular analysis.

Because the claustrum was not well understood, Crick set out to write a review paper on it with Christof Koch, working on it literally hours before his death. This series of files comprises Crick's drafts and background materials. It is not clear whether all the reprints relate to the review paper, but they have been catalogued in this section since Crick appears to have filed them alongside his drafts.

The paper is discussed in Edelstein LR, Denaro FJ., 'The neurobiology of consciousness and sir Francis Crick' in Cellular and Molecular Biology 2004, 50(6):671-673.

The paper was published after Crick's death as Crick FC, Koch C, 'What is the function of the claustrum?', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2005 Jun 29;360(1458):1271-9.

Publication/Creation

1960-2004

Physical description

46 files

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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