Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Helena Ljulj

  • Discovering genius: The neurobiological substrate of intelligence

    Helena LjuljZagreb, Croatia “It is by the shape and size of the forehead that we are to judge of the extent of a man’s understanding… When the frontal vein appears distinctly in the midst of a forehead, open, uniform, and regularly arched, it announces extraordinary talent.”1 According to the eighteenth century physiognomist Johann Caspar Lavater,…