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[[1876]]-[[1878]]

The existence of the [[zona incerta]] was first described by [[Auguste Forel]] in [[1877]] as a "region of which nothing certain can be said".

A hundred and thirty years later in [[2007]], Nadia Urbain and Martin Deschênes of Université Laval noted that the "zona incerta is among the least studied regions of the brain; its name does not even appear in the index of many textbooks