Facets

1870 CE

#4665

Une observation de paralysie infantile s’accompagnant d’une altération des cornes antérieures de la substance grise de la moëlle.

First demonstration of the atrophy of the anterior horns of the spinal cord in infantile paralysis, confirming earlier suggestions of von Heine and Duchenne.

1906 CE

#4714

Unilateral ascending paralysis and unilateral descending paralysis.

First description of unilateral descending paralysis.

1863 CE

#4816

Unilateral epileptiform seizures, attended by temporary defect of sight.

“Jacksonian epilepsy” is so called from the excellent account of unilateral epilepsy with spasm given by Jackson. Actually, Bravais (No. 4810) was first to note the condition.

1874 CE

#1408

Untersuchungen über das Gehirn.

Hitzig accurately defined the limits of the motor area in the cerebral cortex of the dog and the monkey.

1862 CE

#936

Untersuchungen über den Bau der Nasenschleimhaut, namentlich die Structur und Endigungsweise der Geruchsnerven bei dem Menschen und den Wirbelthieren.

Schultze’s classic paper on the nerves to the neuro-epithelium in the special sense organs marks an epoch in histology. He described the cells of the olfactory muccous membrane, “Schultze’s cells&rdq…

1871 CE

#1273

Untersuchungen über den Erregungsvorgang im Nerven- und Muskelsysteme.

1906 CE

#3401

Untersuchungen über den vom Vestibularapparat des Ohres reflektorisch ausgelösten Rhythmischen und seine Begleiterscheinungen.

Bárány’s pointing test for the localization of circumscribed cerebellar lesions. Republished in book form, Berlin, 1906. In 1914 Bárány was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Me…

1876 CE

#782

Untersuchungen über die Gefässernerven-Wurzeln des Ischiadicus.

Stricker was the first to describe vasodilatation on stimulation of the posterior nerve roots.

1877 CE

#1411

Untersuchungen über die Haubenregion und ihre oberen Verknüpfungen im Gehirne des Menschen und einiger Säugethiere, mit Beiträgen zu den Methoden der Gehirnuntersuchung.

Forel elucidated the subthalamic region, “campus Foreli”.

1881 CE

#1413

Untersuchungen über die Localisation der Funktionen in der Grosshirnrinde des Menschen.

Exner identified the superficial tangential fibers of the molecular layer of the cerebral cortex, known eponymically as “Exner’s plexus”. Exner’s book of 1881 on cortical localization contained…

1859 CE

#621

Untersuchungen über die Physiologie des Electrotonus.

One of the most interesting works of its time on the physiology of nerve. In it Pflüger first stated the laws governing the make and break stimulation of nerve with the galvanic current. Pflüger was a pupil …

1864 CE

#623

Untersuchungen über elektrische Nervenreizung.

Among the instruments introduced by Fick for the study of muscle and nerve physiology were the myotonograph, the cosine lever, and an improved thermopile.

1865 CE

#1271

Untersuchungen über Gehirn und Rückenmark des Menschen und der Säugethiere. Nach dem Tode des Verfassers Herausgegeben und Bevortwortet von Max Schultze.

Deiters showed that each nerve-cell possesses an axis-cylinder or nerve-fiber process. His name is perpetuated in “Deiters’ cells” and “nucleus”. Dieters died of typhus in 1863 at the age…

1934 CE

#3924

Utskillelse av fenylpyrodruesyre i urinen som stoffskifteanomali i forbindelse med imbecilletet.

Phenylketonuria (PKU) first described. This was the first hereditary metabolic disorder shown to be responsible for mental retardation. German translation in Hoppe-Seyl. Z. physiol. Chem., 1934, 227, 169-76. English t…

1905 CE–1906 CE

#1337

Vagus inhibition of the heart in its relation to the inorganic salts of the blood.

Howell suggested that nerve impulses act indirectly by increasing the amount of diffusible potassium compounds in the heart tissue.

1918 CE

#1342

Vasodilator reactions.

Showed that tissues are more sensitive to acetylcholine after treatment with eserine (physostigmine).

1918 CE

#4602

Ventriculography following the injection of air into the cerebral ventricles.

Dandy was responsible for the introduction of ventriculography.

1909 CE

#1435

Vergleichende Lokalisationslehre der Grosshirnrinde in ihren Prinzipien dargestellt auf Grund des Zellenbaues.

Brodmann was a pioneer in the study of cytoarchitectonics, and this work forms the basis for localization of function in the cerebral cortex. Brodmann's "areas" are used to designate cortical function regions. Brodman…

1935 CE

#4961

Versuche über die biologische Beeinflussung des Ablaufes der Schizophrenic. 1. Campher-und Cardiazolkrämpfe.

Cardiazol (metrazol) convulsion therapy of schizophrenia was introduced by Meduna in 1934.

1906 CE

#4682

Versuche zur Serodiagnostik und Serotherapie der epidemischen Genickstarre.

First attempts at the serum treatment of cerebrospinal meningitis.

1939 CE

#4660.1

Vesennij (vesenne-letnij) endemiceskij klescevoj encefalit. [Vernal (verno-aestival) endemic tick-borne encephalitis.]

Isolation of the virus of spring–summer (Russian Far East) encephalitis.

1911 CE

#3402

Vestibularapparat und Zentralnervensystem.

“Bárány’s syndrome” – unilateral deafness, vertigo, and pain in the occipital region.

1940 CE

#4661

Virus filtrant pathogène pour l’homme et les animaux de laboratoire, et à affinité meningée et pulmonaire.

“Durand’s disease” – D virus infection. Durand isolated the virus from his own blood. See also the paper by G. M. Findlay, Trans. roy. Soc. trop. Med., 1942, 35, 303-18.

1819 CE–1826 CE

#1358

Vom Baue und Leben des Gehirns. 3 vols.

Includes description of “Burdach’s column”, the posterior column of the spinal cord. This work is also “an unrivalled source of historical information on macroscopical neuroanatomy” (Meyer).

1567 CE

#4916.1

Von den Kranckheyten so die vernunfft berauben als da sein S. Veyts Thantz…

In this work on the “diseases that deprive man of his reason” Paracelsus anticipated the descriptive method in psychiatry, giving a purely medical account of the clinical manifestations of epilepsy, mania,…

1836 CE

#1260

Vorläufige Mittheilungen microscopischer Beobachtungen über den inner Bau der Cerebrospinalnerven und über die Entwickelung ihrer Formelemente.

Remak identified for the first time the myelinated fiber with its central “band of Remak” (the axon), and the unmyelinated axon or “fiber of Remak.” Fuller account in his Observationes anatomic…

1850 CE

#1265

Vorläufiger Bericht über die Fortpflanzungsgeschwindigkeit der Nervenreizung.

Helmholtz succeeded in measuring the velocity of the nervous impulse, by applying the knowledge and techniques of ballistics to the problem. In 1852, using a pendulum-myograph of his own invention, he measured the dur…

1911 CE

#4985.2

Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido. Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Denkens.

Reprinted in book form, Leipzig, F. Deuticke, 1912. Jung was among the first to support Freud’s views on psychoanalysis, and was considered by Freud to be his most brilliant pupil. Jung applied psychoanalytic th…

1908 CE

#4715

Weitere Mitteilungen über eine eigenartige hereditär-familiare Erkrankung des Zentralnervensystems.

“Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease”, familial centrolobar sclerosis (see also No. 4703).

1977 CE

#13277

Wernicke's works on aphasia: A sourcebook and review.

2019 CE

#12970

Whole-animal connectomes of both Caenorhabditis elegans sexes.

The first whole-animal connectomes for both adult sexes of a single species. "As none of the EM series cover an entire single animal, to generate whole animal connectomes, data from different reconstruction series wer…

1995 CE

#11343

Whole-genome random sequencing and assembly of Haemophilus influenzae Rd.

First sequence of the complete genome of a free-living non-viral organism—Haemophilus influenzae—the bacterium that causes lower respiratory tract infections and meningitis in infants and young children. T…

1884 CE

#1280

Wie rasch ermüdet der Nerv?

Although Bernstein considered that nerve could be exhausted, Vvedenskii was able, in this paper, to show that such is not the case. Further proof was supplied by Bowditch (No. 1281). Digital facsimile of Vvedenskii's …

1981 CE

#11735

Willis's Oxford casebook (1650-52) edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.

1991 CE

#13556

Witchcraft and hysteria in Elizabethan London: Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover case.

1975 CE

#5019.17

World history of psychiatry. Edited by J.G. Howells.

Contributions by 42 authors.

1958 CE

#7538

Young man Luther: A study in psychoanalysis and history.

1921 CE

#4604

Zur Analyse und Pathophysiologie der striären Bewegungsstörungen.

Foerster made a most important contribution to the literature on extra pyramidal diseases.

1903 CE

#1429

Zur anatomischen Gliederung des Cortex cerebri.

1891 CE

#4627.1

Zur Auffassung der Aphasien.

Freud refuted the Wernicke–Lichtheim doctrine (Nos. 4623 & 4626) that the losses of function in aphasia were due to lesions to anatomically circumscribed centers corresponding to the various functions involved i…

1916 CE

#4600

Zur Diagnose der Rückenmarkskompression.

“Queckenstedt’s test” for determining patency of the spinal subarachnoid space.

1906 CE

#3891

Zur Frage der Operationen an der Hypophyse.

Schloffer’s Operation for acromegaly. He was the first successfully to operate upon a pituitary tumor in man (See No. 3892).

1887 CE

#1368.1

Zur Geschichte der menschlichen Rückenmarkes und der Nervenwurzeln.

This is generally considered the first clear statement that nerve cells in the brain might be independent units rather than forming an anastomotic network—as Gerlach, Golgi, and most others believed—althou…

1928 CE

#1333

Zur Histologie und Topographie der vegetativen Zentren im Rückenmark.

Study of the cells of origin of the white rami.

1912 CE

#4646

Zur Kenntnis der sogenannten diffusen Sklerose (über Encephalitis periaxialis diffusa).

“Schilder’s disease” – encephalitis periaxialis diffusa.

1920 CE

#4720

Zur Lehre der Erkrankungen des striären Systems.

“Vogt syndrome”, disease of the corpora striata.

1867 CE

#2705

Zur Lehre von den vasomotorischen Neurosen.

Nothnagel described the vasomotor type of acroparaesthesia, sometimes called after him.

1873 CE–1874 CE

#4832

Zur Lehre von der Tetanie nebst Bemerkungen über die Prufung der electrischen Erregbarkeit motorischer Nerven.

“Erb’s sign”.

1872 CE

#4831

Zur Lehre von der Tetanie.

Important observations on gastric tetany were made by Kussmaul. He called attention to the convulsions sometimes accompanying dilatation of the stomach. He first mentioned “gastric tetany” in 1869 in his p…

1932 CE

#4767

Zur Pathogenese und Therapie der Myasthenie gravis pseudoparalytica.

Introduction of neostigmine in the treatment of myasthenia gravis.