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1928 CE

#3004.1

Traumatic aneurysm of the intracranial portion of the internal carotid artery. With a note by Wilfred Trotter.

In 1924 Wilfred Trotter(1872-1939) performed the first planned operation for intracranial aneurysm diagnosed pre-operatively.

2001 CE

#9786

Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930. Edited by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner.

1871 CE

#4542

Treatise on diseases of the nervous system.

The first American treatise on neurology. The original description of athetosis, sometimes called “Hammond’s disease”, appears on pp. 654-62. During his tenure as Surgeon General of the Army during t…

1758 CE

#4919.1

Treatise on madness.

Battie was among the first to teach psychiatry at the bedside. His book is the first English text book on the subject. Reprinted with J. Monro’s Remarks on Dr. Battie’s treatise on madness, London, Dawsons…

1934 CE

#4768

Treatment of myasthenia gravis with physostigmine.

Introduction of physostigmine in treatment of myasthenia gravis. She replaced this with neostigmine in 1935 (Proc. roy. Soc. Med., 28, 759-61).

1889 CE

#4576

Tremblement avec paralysie croisée du moteur oculaire commun.

“Benedikt’s syndrome”–paralysis of the oculomotor nerve on one side with intensive trembling of the other side. English translation in Wolf, The classical brain stem syndromes, Springfield, Cha…

1952 CE

#4962.3

Trente-huit cas de psychoses traitées par la cure prolongée et continue de 4560 R. P. C. R. Congr. Alien, et Neurol, de Langue Franç.

Introduction of chlorpromazine in the treatment of psychosis. Chlorpromazine was later marketed in the United States as Thorazine.

1949 CE

#4729

Trihexyphenidyl. Evaluation of the new agent in the treatment of parkinsonism.

Clinical introduction of benzhexol (“artane”) in Parkinson’s disease.

1886 CE

#4571

Two cases of associated paralysis of the tongue, soft palate, and vocal cord on the same side.

“Mackenzie’s syndrome”.

2015 CE

#8012

U. S. Army psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New challenges in extended counterinsurgency warfare.

1929 CE

#1446

Über das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menschen.

First recording of human brain activity, which Berger called electroencephalography. Berger actually recorded his first EEG in 1924, but did not publish the technique until 1929. He showed that the electrical activity…

1926 CE

#4609

Über das morphologische Wesen und die Histopathologie der hereditaersystematischen Nervenkrankheiten.

Schaffer was a pioneer Hungarian neuropathologist. He laid down a triad of criteria for judging whether or not a neurological disease is hereditary.

1893 CE

#4977.3

Über den psychischen Mechanismus hysterischer Phänomene. (Vorläufige Mittheilung.)

The preliminary announcement of the results of the collaboration that was the starting point of psychoanalysis. It described work begun several years previously. See No. 4978.

1919 CE

#8795

Über die Anhalonium-Alkaloide I. Anhalin und Mezcalin

Synthesis of mescaline.

1921 CE

#4605.1

Über die diagnostische Bedeutung der intraspinalen Luftinjektionen bei Rückenmarksleiden, besonders bei Geschwülsten.

Myelography by air injection into spinal subarachnoid space.

1910 CE

#7344

Über die kerne des menschlichen diencephalon.

"Malone was a strict adherent to the cytoarchitectonic method, and ascribed similar function to neurons with similar shape in different parts of the nervous system. He named the nucleus reuniens (thalamus) here, and a…

1911 CE

#13596

Ūber eigenartige Krankheitsfälle des späteren Alters.

In this record of his continuing research on what in 1910 Kraepelin called Alzheimersche Krankheit (Alzheimer's disease) Alzheimer provided detailed history, clinical signs, symptoms descriptions, pathologic and histo…

1885 CE

#4703

Über eine eigentümliche Form spastischer Lähmung mit Cerebralerscheinungen auf hereditärer Grundlage. (Multiple Sklerose.)

“Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease” (see No. 4715).

1887 CE

#7917

Über einige Derivate der Phenylmethacrylsäure und der Phenylisobuttersäure.

Synthesis of phenylisopropylamine, later known as amphetamine. Its stimulant effects were unknown until it was independently resynthesized by Gordon Alles.

1905 CE

#4713.1

Über familiäre amaurotische Idiotie und verwandte Krankheitsbilder.

Spielmayer-Vogt disease, or Spielmeyer-Vogt-Sjögren-Batten disease, the juvenile form of cerebromacular degeneration.

1934 CE

#4657

Übertragung des Virus von Encephalitis epidemica auf Affen.

Experimental transmission of Japanese B encephalitis.

1891 CE

#4706.1

Ueber acute Ataxie.

“Leyden’s (acute) ataxia”.

1875 CE

#4665.1

Ueber acute Spinällahmung (Poliomyelitis anterior acuta) bei Erwachsenen und über verwandte spinale Erkrankungen.

Erb was first to use the term “acute anterior poliomyelitis”.

1893 CE

#2709

Ueber Akroparästhesie.

“Schultze’s acroparaesthesia.” Schultze described the simple form of acroparesthesia.

1900 CE

#4760

Ueber allgemeine und localisierte Atonie der Muskulatur (Myatonie) im frühen Kindesalter.

First description of “Oppenheim’s disease” – amyotonia congenita.

1885 CE

#4626

Ueber Aphasie.

“Lichtheim’s disease”– subcortical sensory aphasia. Lichtheim noted that although the patient could not speak, he was able to indicate with his fingers the number of syllables in the word of wh…

1891 CE–1893 CE

#4756

Ueber chronische spinale Muskelatrophie im Kindesalter, auf familiärer Basis.

“Hoffmann’s muscular atrophy” – independently described by Werdnig (No. 4755).

1884 CE

#1880.1

Ueber coca.

Freud described his observations (with himself as subject) on the effects of cocaine, including its abolition of hunger and fatigue, the “exhilaration and lasting euphoria”. He also described its supposed …

1860 CE

#4536

Ueber Complication von Sehnervenentzündung mit Gehimkrankheiten

Graefe showed that most cases of blindness and impaired vision connected with cerebral disorders can be traced to optic neuritis rather than paralysis of the optic nerve.

1906 CE

#4804

Ueber das Vorhandensein syphilitischer Antistoffe in der Cerebrospinalflüssigkeit von Paralytikem.

Wassermann applied his test (No. 2402) to the cerebrospinal fluid and, in paretics, obtained positive results in over 90 per cent of cases. The test greatly facilitated the diagnosis of general paralysis.

1863 CE

#4696

Ueber degenerative Atrophie der spinalen Hinterstränge.

Friedreich was the first to describe a form of ataxia (“Friedreich’s ataxia”), hereditary, attended with impairment of speech, lateral curvature of the spine, and with paralysis of the muscles of the…

1899 CE

#1293

Ueber den Bau der Ganglien in den Geflechten des Darmes und der Gallenblase des Menschen und der Säugethiere.

Classification of the neurones of spinal and other ganglia.

1876 CE

#551

Ueber den Bau der Meissner’schen Tastkörperchen.

Includes first account of the demonstration of nerve endings by means of the gold chloride method.

1890 CE

#1282

Ueber den Nachweis der Unermüdlichkeit des Säugethiernerven.

Bowditch demonstrated the indefatigability of nerve (“Bowditch’s law”).

1894 CE

#1422

Ueber den sogenannten Granula der Nervenzellen.

“Nissl’s granules”.

1851 CE

#1267.1

Ueber den Zustand der Sensibilität nach theilweiser Trennung des Rückenmarkes.

Türck showed that degeneration in a nerve track corresponds to the direction in which it conducts nerve impulses – ascending tracks degenerate above the lesion and descending tracks below it.

1887 CE

#4678

Ueber die Aetiologie der akuten Meningitis cerebro-spinalis.

Weichselbaum discovered the meningococcus, Neisseria meningitidis, causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis.

1885 CE

#4643

Ueber die akute Encephalitis der Kinder (Polioencephalitis acuta, cerebrale Kinderlähmung).

“Strumpell’s disease” – polioencephalomyelitis.

1892 CE

#4707

Ueber die Beziehungen der senilen Hirnatrophie zur Aphasie.

“Pick’s disease” – circumscribed atrophy of the brain with the development of aphasia and presenile dementia.

1888 CE

#4706

Ueber die Diagnose der Syringomyelie.

First complete description of syringomyelia.

1887 CE

#4946

Ueber die Einwirking fieberhafter Erkrankungen auf Psychosen.

Wagner von Jauregg’s first studies of the effect of fevers upon psychotic conditions. See also No. 4806.

1918 CE–1919 CE

#4806

Ueber die Einwirkung der Malaria auf die progressive Paralyse.

In 1917 Wagner von Jauregg returned to the idea of the inoculation of paretics with malaria to induce pyrexia, first proposed by him in 1887 (Ueber die Einwirkung fieberhafter Erkrankungen auf Psychosen, Jb. Psychiat.…

1870 CE

#1405

Ueber die elektrische Erregbarkeit des Grosshirns.

These workers showed that electrical stimulation of the frontal cortex in various experimental animals caused movements of the extremities of the opposite side of the body, thus proving the existence of a motor area i…

1928 CE

#4654

Ueber die Encephalitis epidemica in Japan.

Japanese encephalitis distinguished from encephalitis lethargica.

1877 CE

#1274

Ueber die Ermüdung und Erholung der Nerven.

After successfully tetanizing a nerve-muscle preparation, Bernstein inferred, from this and additional data, that nerve is exhausted in the process. This conflicted with the findings of Bowditch (No. 1281-82) and Vved…

1866 CE

#1363

Ueber die Erweiterung von Arterien in Folge einer Nervenerregung.

The “Lovén reflex”, vasodilatation of an organ when its afferent nerve is stimulated.

1881 CE

#1414

Ueber die Functionen der Grosshirnrinde.

Munk made important investigations on the functions of the temporal lobes.

1874 CE

#1365

Ueber die Functionen des Lendenmarks des Hundes.

1890 CE

#1471

Ueber die galvanischen Erscheinungen in der Haut des Menschen bei Reizungen der Sinnesorgane und bei verschiedenen Formen der psychischen Thätigkeit.

Psycho-galvanic reflex described.

1868 CE

#1466

Ueber die Haut-Sensibilitätsbezirke der einzelnen Rückenmarks-nervenpaare.

Investigation of the cutaneous distribution of the separate pairs of spinal nerves.