Ivan Pavlov’s conditioned reflexes and Ivane Beritashvili’s doctrine of image-driven behavior: Materialism, myth, and politics

2024-9-26

David Ferrier’s “complex whole”: Early traces of a “brain network” concept

2024-9-24

Early depiction of anterior spinal arteries and veins in André du Laurens’s <i>Historia anatomica humani corporis</i> (1600)

2024-9-24

Duane E. Haines (1943–2024)

2024-9-4

Charcot and hallucinations: A study in insight and blindness

2024-9-2

Neuroanniversary 2025

2024-9-2

The peripheral nerve: A neglected topic in Charcot’s neurological work

2024-8-29

Charcot’s erroneous double-semidecussation scheme for the retinocortical visual pathways

2024-8-26

Charcot and the psychology of hysteria, with special reference to a never published final case history

2024-8-26

Remarkable things: Visual evidence and excess at Charcot’s Salpêtrière

2024-8-26

Ghost cells: Wilder Penfield and the characterization of glia and glial pathology, 1924–1932

2024-8-20

From brain cytoarchitectonics to clinical neurology: Polish Institute for Brain Research in Vilnius, 1931–1938

2024-8-20

Scientific plurality and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): A philosophical and historical perspective on Charcot’s texts

2024-8-20

Brouillet’s <i>Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière</i> as an epistemic tool in Charcot’s research on hysterical amnesia

2024-8-15

The evolution of plasticity in the neuroscientific literature during the second half of the twentieth century to the present

2024-8-9

‘A divine right to photograph’: E. Graeme Robertson’s (1903–1975) historical motion pictures of National Hospital staff in 1933

2024-8-1

Charcot’s contribution to the problem of language in mental medicine

2024-7-12

Charcot and Léon Daudet and Charcot: A missed love story?

2024-7-12

The prominent role of Charcot and the French neurological tradition in Latin America

2024-7-1

Charcot’s international visitors and pupils from Europe, the United States, and Russia

2024-6-26

Edvard Munch’s crisis in 1908 and French medicine: His doctors, treatments, and sources of information

2024-6-18

Charcot and recent French cinema

2024-6-10

Jean-Martin Charcot, member of thesis juries at the Paris medical school (1862–1893)

2024-6-4

The stone of madness: Charcot’s interest in a copy after Pieter Bruegel Sr. as referred to by Henry Meige

2024-5-28

Henry Hun and his family: Three foundational stories in the history of nineteenth-century American neurology, Part I. Thomas Hun (1808–1896): Nineteenth-century patriarch, neurophilosopher, and proto-neurologist

2024-5-1

Against vivisection: Charcot and Pitres’ discovery of the human motor cortex and the birth of modern neurosurgery and of the surgical treatment of epilepsy

2024-4-25

The conflicts of Ray Adams and Joe Foley with Abe Baker: The neurology and neuropathology of liver failure (1949–1963) and the founding of the American Academy of Neurology (1948)

2024-4-15

Walter Eichler and his role in the development of electroneurography

2024-4-10

The trial of David Ferrier, November 1881: Context, proceedings, and aftermath

2024-3-28

The collaboration of Francis Forster and Wilder Penfield in the management of a girl with ‘reflex epilepsy’

2024-3-8

The transition from cranial surgery to neurosurgery in East London, 1760–1960

2024-2-12

The electrified artist: Edvard Munch’s demons, treatments, and sketch of an electrotherapy session (1908–1909)

2024-1-10

An overview of headache treatments during the tenth century

2024-1-4

Carl Bergmann (1814–1865) and the discovery of the anatomical site in the retina where vision is initiated

2023-12-18

Haloperidol’s introduction in the United States: A tale of a failed trial and its consequences

2023-12-13

<i>Herbis, non verbis, fiunt medicamenta vitae</i> : The Italian botanist Arturo Nannizzi (1887–1961) and his contribution to the treatment of parkinsonism following encephalitis lethargica

2023-12-7

W. J. Adie and his “pyknolepsy,” a century ago

2023-11-8

NeurHistAlert 27

2023-10-31

Edward Trautner (1890–1978), a pioneer of psychopharmacology

2023-10-20

The forgotten militant and his enduring mission: Zing-Yang Kuo and his extraordinary years in behavioral neuroembryology (1929–1939)

2023-9-18

The historical and philosophical roots of emergentism in the neurosciences

2023-9-8

Cranial surgery and the pericranium

2023-8-28

The Idea of Epilepsy: A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern Era (1860–2020)

2023-8-17

Early Australian neuroscientists and the tyranny of distance

2023-7-21

Hikikomori (引きこもり): Ancient term, modern concept

2023-7-17

Victor Horsley: The World’s First Neurosurgeon and His Conscience

2023-7-12

Lathyrism in Spain: Lessons from 68 publications following the 1936–39 Civil War

2023-6-5

The advent of epilepsy directed neurosurgery: The early pioneers and who was first

2023-5-18

Royle’s sympathectomy for spastic paralysis: Sorry saga or scientific awakening?

2023-5-8

Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of NeuroscienceJeff Keiser. <i>Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience</i> . Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, 324 pp., $45.00 (e-book). ISBN: 978-0-8139-4479-1; $45.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-0-8139-4478-4; $85.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0-8139-4477-7.

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