Facets

1793 CE

#1386.1

Examen chimique du cerveau de plusieurs animaux.

Fourcroy, French physician and chemist, made important researches on the chemistry of the brain. He noted albumen (protein) as a principal constituent.

1796 CE

#1387

Exercitationum anatomicarum fasciculus primus. De structura nervorum, tribus tabulis aeneis illustratus [All published].

Description of the “island of Reil”. This was the first part of the surface of the cerebral hemispheres to be given a name since 1641 (No. 1377.3). See also Reil’s follow-up paper in Arch. Physiol. (…

1897 CE

#4759

Existe-t-il une atrophie musculaire progressive Aran-Duchenne?

Marie disbelieved in the Aran–Duchenne type of muscular progressive atrophy.

1853 CE

#1321

Expérience sur les fonctions de la portion céphalique du grand sympathique.

1812 CE

#1389.2

Expériences sur le principe de la vie.

Le Gallois described the action of the vagus nerve on respiration. He showed that bilateral section of the vagus can produce fatal bronchopneumonia. The above work includes (p. 37) his location of the respiratory cent…

1822 CE

#1256.1

Expériences sur les fonctions des racines des nerfs qui naissent de la moelle épinière.

Further experiments, including, most probably, “the first use of strychnine as part of a study of the localization of function in the nervous system as well as being a very early example of the rational use of a…

1822 CE

#1256

Expériences sur les fonctions des racines des nerfs rachidiens.

Magendie definitely discovered that the anterior root is motor and that the dorsal root is sensory, although Romberg, Flourens, Sherrington, and others credited the discovery to Charles Bell. In this paper Magendie an…

1912 CE

#4670.4

Experimental and pathological investigation. In: Investigations on epidemic infantile paralysis, report from the State Medical Institute of Sweden to the XVth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography.

Kling, A. Pettersson, and W. Wernstedt recovered the poliomyelitis virus from the intestinal wall and contents, disproving the contention of Flexner that it was exclusively neurotropic.

1934 CE

#4688

Experimental lymphocytic choriomeningitis of monkeys and mice produced by a virus encountered in studies of the 1933 St. Louis encephalitis epidemic.

Isolation of the virus of benign lymphocytic choriomeningits.

1910 CE

#4670

Experimental poliomyelitis in monkeys: Active immunization and passive serum protection.

Demonstration of antibodies in convalescent serum in monkeys.

1852 CE

#1322

Experimental researches applied to physiology and pathology.

By applying a galvanic current to the superior part of the divided sympathetic nerve and causing vascular contraction and a fall in temperature, Brown-Séquard inferred that section of the sympathetic paralysed …

1873 CE

#7803

Experimental researches in cerebral physiology and pathology.

Using a variety of experimental animals, Ferrier demonstrated that various neurologic functions were controlled by separate parts of the cerebrum and that damage or loss of that part created an irrevocable and particu…

1924 CE

#1442

Experimental researches on sensory localization in the cerebral cortex of the monkey (Macacus).

Dusser de Barenne demonstrated the major functional subdivisions of the sensory cortex.

1870 CE

#1406

Experimentaluntersuchungen über das peripherische und centrale Nervensystem.

Modern study of the functions of the thalamus began with the important investigations of Gudden. He is remembered eponymically by “Gudden’s commissure” and “Gudden’s atrophy” &ndash…

1925 CE

#4652

Experimentelle Übertragung von Herpes zoster auf den Menschen und die Beziehungen von Herpes zoster zu Varicellen.

First demonstration of the infectivity of herpes.

1852 CE

#1323

Experimenteller Beweis, dass der Nervus sympathicus aus dem Rückenmark entspringt.

1850 CE

#1266

Experiments on the section of the glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves of the frog, and observations of the alterations produced thereby in the structure of their primitive fibres.

The “law of Wallerian degeneration”. The experiments recorded in the above paper were the starting-point of the neuron theory. Waller showed that if glosso-pharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves are severed, th…

1732 CE

#1314

Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain.

The foramen between the greater and lesser sacs of the peritoneum (described on pages 352-65), is named after Winslow. His Exposition is distinguished as being the first book on descriptive anatomy to discard physiolo…

1858 CE

#4854

Exsection of the trunk of the second branch of the fifth pair of nerves, beyond the ganglion of Meckel, for severe neuralgia of the face; with three cases.

First excision of the superior maxillary nerve for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.

2012 CE

#12751

Eyewire: A game to map the brain.

https://eyewire.org/explore Eyewire is a game to map the brain from Sebastian Seung's Lab at Princeton University. This citizen science human-based computation game challenges players to map retinal neurons. Eyewire l…

1879 CE

#14295

Fasting girls: their physiology and pathology.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1877 CE

#4554

Fat and blood and how to make them.

Includes full account of Weir Mitchell’s rest cure for nervous disorders.

1836 CE

#4811

Fatal epilepsy, from suppuration between the dura mater and arachnoid, in consequence of blood having been effused in that situation.

Bright was the first to describe unilateral (“Jacksonian”) epilepsy.

1961 CE

#14281

Fate of tritiated noradrenaline at the sympathetic nerve endings.

Using electron microscopy and tritiated norepinephrine, the authors discovered the area in the nerve endings in which the catecholamines were concentrated, and also observed enhanced radioactive catecholamine release …

2017 CE

#11793

Fearful asymmetry: Bouillaud, Dax, Broca, and the localization of language, Paris, 1825-1879.

2006 CE

#12731

Fiber pathways of the brain

"... a comprehensive,well-illustrated study of the organization of the white matter pathways of the brain. Schmahmann and Pandya have analyzed and synthesized the corticocortical and corticosubcortical connections of …

1884 CE

#4642

Fièvre zoster etexanthèmes zosteriformes.

Landouzy first suggested the infective nature of herpes.

1924 CE

#4605.3

Fingeragnosie. Eine umschriebene Störung der Orientierung am eigenen Körper.

Gerstmann’s syndrome, due to cerebral lesion. Translation in Arch. Neurol. Psychiat., 1971, 24, 475-76.

1784 CE

#4920.1

First lines on the practice of physic. 4th ed. Vol. 3.

Cullen introduced the term “neuroses” (pp. 121-23).

1880 CE

#12884

Fisologia del dolore.

Mantegazza performed pioneering research into the physiology of pain at his experimental laboratory. His work marks the beginning of algometry, the scientific measurement of responses to pain stimuli. Mantegazza inven…

1947 CE

#4615.1

Fluorescein as an agent in the differentiation of normal and malignant tissues.

Radioactive isotopes used in neuroradiology. See also Science, 1948, 107, 569-71.

1977 CE

#13698

Fluvoxamine, a specific 5-hydroxytryptamine uptake inhibitor.

Fluvoxamine, an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class, used primarily for the treatment of major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It is also used to trea…

1961 CE

#9946

Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique.

Foucault's first major book, translated into English as Madness and civilization: A history of insanity in the age of reason (1964).

1970 CE

#5019.10

Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.

Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.

1991 CE

#7333

Foundations of the neuron doctrine.

1983 CE

#11238

Franz Joseph Gall Bibliographie. Mit einem Porträt und 13 Abbildungen

2019 CE

#11274

Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the mind, visionary of the brain

1971 CE

#10765

Freud and the Americans: The beginnings of psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917.

2023 CE

#14158

Freud's antiquity: Object / Idea / Desire. Exhibition catalogue 25/02/2023 -16/07/2023. Edited by Richard Armstrong, Miriam Leonard, Daniel Orrells, Tom DeRose & Karolina Heller.

An interpretive exhibition catalogue explaining the relationship of Freud's large collection of antiquities preserved in the Freud Museum to ideas that Freud developed in psychoanalysis.

1991 CE

#9154

From asylum to community: Mental health policy in modern America.

2012 CE

#9925

From melancholia to Prozac: A history of depression.

1992 CE

#9781

From paralysis to fatigue: A history of psychosomatic illness in the modern era.

1993 CE

#9782

From the mind into the body: The cultural origins of psychosomatic symptoms.

1893 CE

#1288.1

Further experimental note on the correlation of antagonistic muscles.

The first of Sherrington’s papers investigating reciprocal innervation of muscles.

1902 CE

#1373

Further researches on antidromic nerve-impulses.

1939 CE

#7158

Fused neurons and synaptic contacts in the giant nerve fibers of cephalopods.

Young discovered the squid giant synapse, a chemical synapse found in squid, and the largest chemical junction in nature.

2003 CE

#8307

Galen on the brain: Anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD.

1969 CE

#7540

Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence.

1969 CE

#5019.8

Garrison’s History of neurology. Revised and enlarged with a bibliography of classical, original and standard works in neurology.

A comprehensive, well-illustrated history of the subject, considerably enlarging Garrison’s work previously published in C. L. Dana’s Textbook of nervous diseases, 1925, pp. xv-lvi.

1893 CE

#5004

Gedenktage der Psychiatrie und ihrer Hülfsdisciplinen in allen Ländern. 4te. Aufl.

A history of the subject, arranged in calendar form.