Facets

2002 CE

#8304

The creation of psychopharmacology

1901 CE

#1295

The Croonian Lectures on the chemical side of nervous activity. Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, in June, 1901.

First edition in book form, expanded from the journal publications, London: Bale, 1901. Digital facsimile of the book-form edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

2008 CE

#7569

The cure within: A history of mind-body medicine.

2010 CE

#7359

The cybernetic brain: Sketches of another future.

1933 CE

#1377.1

The dermatomes in man.

2016 CE

#12452

The development of sleep medicine: A historical sketch.

Extensively bibliographical. Available from PubMedCentral at this link.

1917 CE

#1440

The development of the cerebro-spinal spaces in pig and man.

1880 CE

#4562

The diagnosis of diseases of the spinal cord.

Gowers demonstrated the dorsal spinocerebellar tract, “Gowers’s tract”, and introduced the terms myotatic and knee-jerk, which he elicited with the rubber edge of his stethoscope or a percussion hammer.

1966 CE

#4914.4

The diagnosis of stupor and coma.

Rationalized the diagnosis of various levels of the unconscious state, correlating these with brain lesions.

2006 CE

#9155

The dilemma of federal mental health policy: Radical reform or incremental change?

1584 CE

#4917

The discoverie of witchcraft.

Scot identified as mentally ill a large group of people who had hitherto been considered to be involved in witchcraft.

1989 CE

#9733

The discovery of the art of the insane.

"This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major fi…

1882 CE

#4565

The diseases of the spinal cord.

1901 CE

#4876

The division of the sensory root of the trigeminus for the relief of tic douloureux; an experimental, pathological, and clinical study, with a preliminary report of one surgically successful case.

Introduction of intracranial trigeminal neurotomy, using a modification of the techniques of Horsley (No. 4865) and Krause (No. 4871). Also published in Philad. med. J., 1901, 8, 1039-49.

1981 CE

#5019.18

The doctrine of the nerves. Chapters in the history of neurology.

Deals with the structure, function, and diseases of the nervous system to the end of the 19th century.

1875 CE

#1408.1

The electric currents of the brain.

Caton succeeded in leading off action potentials from the brains of animals, a first step towards the development of the electroencephalograph. See also Brit. med. J., 1877, 1, Suppl. 62-75.

1937 CE

#4824

The electro-encephalogram in epilepsy.

Demonstration of the changes in the electro-encephalogram in epilepsy. With S. Graham and W. Grey Walter.

1919 CE

#528

The elementary nervous system.

Important studies on the survival of primitive types of neuromuscular mechanism in some of the higher vertebrates.

1923 CE

#7407

The elephant man and other reminiscences.

The story of Treves's patient, Joseph Carey Merrick (1862-1890), incorrected identified by Treves in these reminiscences as "John Merrick." The story was retold in The elephant man, Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play about…

1998 CE

#8792

The encyclopedia of psychoactive substances.

1733 CE

#4840

The English malady; or, a treatise of nervous diseases of all kinds.

Cheyne attributed hypochondria (“Cheyne’s disease”) to the moisture of the air and variability of the weather in the British Isles. Cheyne himself suffered from this disease and the work includes a c…

1936 CE

#9304

The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).

2015 CE

#8724

The evolution of forensic psychiatry: History, current developments, future directions. Edited by Robert L. Sadoff.

1976 CE

#7072

The face of madness. Hugh W. Diamond and the origin of psychiatric photography. Edited by Sander L. Gilman.

Papers by Diamond, including their illustrations, edited with an extensive annotated introduction.

1945 CE

#5015

The falling sickness: A history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology. Second edition.

Revised second edition. Baltimore, 1971.

1921 CE

#1441

The form and functions of the central nervous system.

1990 CE

#5019.22

The founders of child neurology. Edited by Stephen Ashwal.

125 biographical essays, with portraits and bibliographies, documenting the history of child neurology from the 17th century to the present.

1970 CE

#5019.9

The founders of neurology. One hundred and forty-six biographical sketches by eighty-nine authors. Compiled and 2nd edition.

Neuroanatomists, neurophysiologists, neuropathologists, clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons are included. 1st ed., 1953, had 133 biographies; 2nd ed. has 146, 34 of which have been added. Because the 2nd edition d…

1876 CE

#1409

The functions of the brain.

Ferrier may be said to have laid the foundations of our knowledge concerning the localization of cerebral function. His book includes his earlier work published in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum Reports. Digital facsi…

1902 CE

#7979

The Goulstonian lectures on some abnormal psychical conditions in children. Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on March 4th, 6th, and 11th, 1902.

Considered by many historians to be the scientific starting point of the study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Digital facsimile of the separate offprint from the Internet Archive at this link.

1864 CE

#7331

The gray substance of the medulla oblongata and trapezium.

The first American medical book illustrated with photomechanically reproduced plates. Oliver Wendell Holmes praised the book for its remarkable photomicrographs, which may be the first published of brain cross-section…

1906 CE

#1374

The grouping of afferent impulses within the spinal cord.

1895 CE

#1425

The growth of the brain.

1971 CE

#14258

The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat.

See also: O'Keefe, "Place units in the hippocampus of the freely moving rat," Experimental Neurology, 51 (1976) 78–109. O’Keefe and his student Jonathan Dostrovsky discovered place cells in the hippocampus…

1916 CE

#4718

The histology of disseminated sclerosis.

A classic monograph on the pathology of multiple sclerosis.

1961 CE

#5019.2

The historical development of British psychiatry. Vol. 1. (All published.)

1958 CE

#1586

The history and philosophy of knowledge of the brain and its functions: an Anglo-American symposium.

1984 CE

#2068.20

The history of lithium therapy.

1996 CE–2018 CE

#12939

The history of neuroscience in autobiography, edited by Tom Albright and Larry R. Squire. 10 vols.

"The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography is a collection of autobiographical chapters, edited by Tom Albright and Larry R. Squire, that details the lives and discoveries of eminent senior neuroscientists. "During…

1966 CE

#5019.6

The history of psychiatry: An evaluation of psychiatric thought and practice from prehistoric times to the present.

2003 CE

#9452

The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.

1996 CE

#1588.4

The human brain and spinal cord: A historical study illustrated by writings from antiquity to the twentieth century. Second edition, revised and enlarged with a new preface by Edwin Clarke.

Massive anthology of primary source material on neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. Excellent commentaries and bibliographies. First edition, 1968.

1954 CE

#7351

The human brain in sagittal section.

A superb atlas is based on sagittal sections. This was an innovative approach for the time as almost all previous illustration of the adult human brain was typically based on frontal or horizontal sections: “in …

1961 CE

#7352

The human cerebellum. An atlas of gross topography in serial sections.

2009 CE

#12740

The Human Connectome Project.

In 2009 The National Instiututes of Health announced that it would fund a five year program called the Human Connectome Project to build a "network map" (connectome) to will shed light on the anatomical and functional…

1932 CE

#1446.2

The hypothalamus and heat regulation.

Location of the heat-regulating center in the hypothalamus.

2010 CE

#9397

The illustrated Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Edited with an introduction and essays by Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason.

Reprints selected portions of the 1913 A. A. Brill translation together essays by Masson and excerpts from Jung, Lacan, and Horney. Includes many full page or double-page color reproductions of works by modernist and …

1926 CE

#1307

The impulses produced by sensory nerve-endings. Part 2. The response of a single end-organ.

The observations of Adrian and Zotterman on the response of single sensory end-organs to a natural stimulus led them to formulate their conception of “adaptation” of receptors to stimuli.

1935 CE

#4769

The influence of large doses of potassium chloride on myasthenia gravis.

Potassium salts first used in treatment of myasthenia gravis.

1885 CE

#5003.1

The insane in the United States and Canada.

The first history of psychiatry in the United States and Canada. Chapter 5 is the first survey of psychiatry in Canada.