History Of Neuroscience Research Articles

Towards a (bio)cultural history of the brain?

Histories of ideas about the brain, and of the brain itself, are relevant for historians studying mental health and madness. This review article outlines the development of the concept of ‘neurohistory’, its potential applications and pitfalls, as well as the benefits of engaging critically with neuroscience.

Commentary: Why Study the History of Neuroscience?

Commentary: Why Study the History of Neuroscience?

A brief history of neuroscience

A brief history of neuroscience

The history of the brain and mind sciences

This review article critically surveys the following literature by placing it under the historiographical banner of ‘the history of the brain and mind sciences’: Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017); Katja Guenther, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis & the Neuro Disciplines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015); Stephen Casper and Delia Gavrus (eds), The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences: Technique, Technology, Therapy (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2017); Jonna Brenninkmeijer, Neurotechnologies of the Self: Mind, Brain and Subjectivity (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). This framework highlights contemporary attempts to historicize the integrative project of neuroscience and set the correct limits to interdisciplinary collaboration. While attempts to critically engage with the ‘neuro’ rhetoric of contemporary neuroscientists can seem at odds with historians seeking to write the history of neuroscience from the margins, it is argued that together these two projects represent a positive historiographical direction for the history of the neurosciences after the decade of the brain.

The brain: An illustrated history of neuroscience

The brain: An illustrated history of neuroscience

The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences: Technique, Technology, Therapy ed. by Stephen T. Casper and Delia Gavrus

The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences: Technique, Technology, Therapy ed. by Stephen T. Casper and Delia Gavrus

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

A history of the brain: from Stone Age surgery to modern neuroscience

A History of the Brain tells the full story of neuroscience, from antiquity to the present day. It describes how we have come to understand the biological nature of the brain, beginning in prehistoric times, and progressing to the twentieth century with the development of Modern Neuroscience. This is the first time a history of the brain has been written in a narrative way, emphasizing how our understanding of the brain and nervous system has developed over time, with the development of the disciplines of anatomy, pharmacology, physiology, psychology and neurosurgery. The book covers: beliefs about the brain in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome the Medieval period, Renaissance and Enlightenment the nineteenth century the most important advances in the twentieth century and future directions in neuroscience. The discoveries leading to the development of modern neuroscience gave rise to one of the most exciting and fascinating stories in the whole of science. Written for readers with no prior knowledge of the brain or history, the book will delight students, and will also be of great interest to researchers and lecturers with an interest in understanding how we have arrived at our present knowledge of the brain.

A history of the brain: From stone age surgery to modern neuroscience

Andy Wickens, profesor titular de psicologia y neurociencia en la University of Central Lancashire, Reino Unido, nos entrega este motivador y detallado libro que pretende, con gran exito, exponer el devenir historico del estudio del cerebro, tanto en lo que respecta a su comprension filosofica como fisiologica. Y, ademas, respecto a como esta ultima se empotra sobre la primera, dejando entrever el bosquejo de los supuestos epistemologicos que asientan nuestra actual comprension en neurologia, psiquiatria y psicologia. Los primeros dos capitulos se hacen cargo de exponer de que manera las personas de la edad de piedra y de civilizaciones que brillaron en las postrimerias de la prehistoria, se explicaban el origen y la mecanica subyacente de la conducta y de la actividad mental. Que rol le atribuian al cerebro y mediante que metodos llegaban a sus conclusiones, ya fuesen estos mas cercanos a la especulacion o la experiencia empirica. Y, posteriormente, el largo y sinuoso camino hacia las experiencias de Galeno y su legado, ya en el siglo II d. C. Del tercer capitulo al sexto, se presentan eventos relevantes ocurridos entre la tardia Edad Antigua hasta el Siglo de las Luces, periodo en el cual tal vez ocurrieron la mayor parte de las transformaciones filosoficas en la comprension del sistema nervioso: por una parte, los aportes en neuroanatomia de Mondino de Luzzi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Andreas Vesalius y el asentamiento de la teoria celular. Por otra parte, la filosofia metafisica de Rene Descartes, las contribuciones a la fisiologia de Thomas Willis y Albrecht von Haller y, asi, dando un paso mas firme hacia el quehacer cientifico, la incorporacion del descubrimiento de la electricidad en los animales, el uso del galvanometro y el descubrimiento de los potenciales de accion. Finalmente, el ascenso y la caida de la frenologia, disciplina que, si bien incurrio en numerosos errores metodologicos, instauro la idea de que las funciones mentales podian tener una localizacion cerebral.

The History of Neuroscience and Neurosurgery in Iran

The History of Neuroscience and Neurosurgery in Iran

The History of Neurosciences and Neurosurgery in Turkey

The History of Neurosciences and Neurosurgery in Turkey

Cognitive Science Meets Psychoanalysis

Cognitive Science Meets Psychoanalysis

A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience

A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience

A brief history of the brain

We can now trace the evolution of the brain from its earliest beginnings to its recent decline. David Robson tells its story

A Natural History of the Brain Brain The Inside Story Rob DeSalle, Joy Hirsch, and Margaret Zellner, curators American Museum of Natural History, New York, through 14 August 2011. Guangdong Science Center, Guangzhou, China, 19 November 2011 to 30 April 2012. Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Spain, 14 July 2012 to 6 January 2013. Codie Idee per la

Through displays that promote an intuitive understanding of the brain, this exhibition offers a compelling survey of current brain science.

José María López Piñero, notas para una biografía.

Jose Maria Lopez Pinero was one of the main driving forces of the important historiographical renovation that took place in Spain in the sixties and seventies in health studies and science in general. He was also a key figure in the pursuit of space for the history of science as an academic discipline in our country. This paper highlights the intellectual biography and the work of Lopez Pinero as a historian of medicine and science. Until the 1980s his historiographical work was articulated primarily on four topics: the history of neuroscience, the interaction between medical science and society in Spanish nineteenth century, the history of medical knowledge and the social history of science in modern Spain. Since the late 1980s he focused on the history of botany, in addition to his traditional research in health issues.

Book review: A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience

American Journal of Human BiologyVolume 22, Issue 4 p. 569-569 Book Review Book review: A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience David A. Steinberg, David A. Steinberg Fiddletown Institute, Theory Division, Fiddletown, CaliforniaSearch for more papers by this author David A. Steinberg, David A. Steinberg Fiddletown Institute, Theory Division, Fiddletown, CaliforniaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 06 May 2010 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.21060AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume22, Issue4July/August 2010Pages 569-569 RelatedInformation

Cicero's brain and vibrating nerves

Few pairs of books about the history of the brain could be more discordant than this one. Daniel Lord Smail, a Harvard historian, makes a strong plea for integrating the general history of mankind with the evolutionary history of the brain. No mean task, certainly not for someone whose first book, published in 1999, examined changes in spatial designation in the notarial registries of medieval Marseille. The other book, edited by Whitaker, Smith and Finger, contains a collection of essays about 18th century advances in understanding of the nervous system. Despite their disparate vantage points, the pairing serves as a reminder that the organ of neuroscience is not immutable but evolving—however slowly. The first three chapters of Smail's book are a passionate vindication of ‘deep history’, that is, history beginning at least with the emergence of Homo sapiens sapiens in Africa, some 140 000 years ago. In his eyes, the ‘prehistoric’ era should not be left to geologists, anthropologists and archaeologists. When Palaeolithic tribes migrated to Europe and Asia, some 85 000 to 50 000 years ago, humans were still migrant hunters, with an economy ‘based on the calorie’. Probably it was by sheer necessity—prey having become scarce—that around 10 000 years ago the nomadic way of life gave way to a sedentary, agricultural society: the Neolithicum or late Stone Age. Remarkably, this transition took place at roughly the same time in different continents. Most historians, however, limit their narrative to history since the Bronze Age, 5500 years before our time, when also nation states developed. Smail chides his colleagues for their ‘myopic view’ and ‘sterile presentism’, hardly disturbed by the time revolution of the 1860s articulated in Darwin's ‘On the origin of species’ (1859), Lyell's ‘The geological evidences of the antiquity of man’ (1863) and Lubbock's ‘Pre-historic times’ (1865). …

Learning from the history of neuroscience: dogma and patient interests: comment to Dr. Finks commentary.

Learning from the history of neuroscience: dogma and patient interests: comment to Dr. Finks commentary.

The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, Vols. 1 and 2

The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, Vols. 1 and 2