Isaac Newton's pathways from the eyes to the brain

Purkinje's representation of his eponymous cells in the cerebellum

The figure marked, “Fig 2”, shows the equipment used for determination of warm and cold spots depicted on skin surfaces shown above the bottles. Reference: Blix M. Experimentela bidrag till lösning af frågan om hudnervernas specifika energi. Upsala Läkareförenings Förhandlingar. 1882;18(2):87-102 (plate II).

The figure marked, “Fig 3”, shows Blix’s tactile stimulator, and touch spots have been added to the warm and cold spots shown on the surface to the left. Reference: Blix M. Experimentela bidrag till lösning af frågan om hudnervernas specifika energi. Upsala Läkareförenings Förhandlingar. 1883;18(7 & 8):427-40 (plate VI).

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History of Neuroscience at the FENS Forum 2012 in Barcelona

Two exciting events dealing with History of Neuroscience took place during the FENS Forum 2012

Symposium S32
From electric fish to single channel Neuro-electricity, one century after Bernstein's Elektrobiogie (chaired by: M. Piccolino, Ferrara and B. Nilius, Leuven)

History of Neuroscience Social
The Silver Connection: A conference on Fernando de Castro (1896-1967), one of the main pupils of Cajal. This will be followed by a friendly get-together.

Online Library: Downloads of historic books, videos and articles

Awarded Projects - FENS History Funds

2012

  1. Payam Rezaie from UK, Milton Keynes and Uwe-Karsten Hanisch from Germany, Göttingen: Isaac Costero and the in vitro cultivation of human microglia
  2. Lucio Tremolizzo and Michele Augusto Riva from Italy, Milan: Timelines in Neuroscience and Neurology
  3. Zoltán Molnár and Damion Young from UK, Oxford and Richard Brown from Halifax, Canada: 3-Dimensional Images of Physiological Apparatus and Models with Historic Interest
  4. Fernando de Castro (Toledo, Spain), Miguel Merchán (Salamanca, Spain), Javier De Felipe (Madrid, Spain) and Guglielmo Foffani, Antonio Oliviero (Toledo Spain): Cajal and De Castro now open to the world

2011

  1. Paolo Mazzarello from Italy, Pavia: Golgi revealed
  2. David Price from UK, Edinburgh: The rise and fall of phrenology in Scotland
  3. Jean-Gaël Barbara from France, Paris: Translation of the CHN website Club Histoire des Neurosciences of the French neuroscience society
  4. Octavian Buda and Ana-Maria Zagrean from Romania, Bucharest: Historiography of Neurosciences in Eastern Europe, Romania, 1870-1970

2010

  1. Nicholas Wade from UK, Dundee, Marco Piccolino from Italy, Ferrara and Adrian Simmons from UK, Wormit : Portraits of European Neuroscientists
  2. Zoltán Molnár and Damion Young from UK, Oxford: Neuroanatomical Histology – A historical repository at the University of Oxford
  3. Tamas Freund from Hungary, Budapest: János Szentágothai and his legacy for neuroscience in Hungary and worldwide
  4. Lorenzo Lorusso from Italy, Chiari & Marjorie Lorch from UK, London: Neuroscience by Caricature

 

Online Projects Funded by FENS History Grants

Portraits of European Neuroscientists Neuroscience by Caricature
Neuroanatomical Histology -
A historical repository at the University of Oxford
Golgi Revealed
The Rise and Fall of Phrenology in Edinburgh János Szentágothai and his legacy for
neuroscience in Hungary and worldwide


Here we provide links to other major web-sites focused on history of Neuroscience


The homepage of The International Society for the History of Neuroscience provides a link to The History of Neuroscience Internet Forum http://www.bri.ucla.edu/nha/histneur.htm.



The International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) has got a History of Neuroscience Programme described as follows:

The mission of the History of Neuroscience Committee is to bring together and publicize relevant aspects of the history of the neuroscience in a concise and clear manner in IBRO’s History of Neuroscience series. In particular, the committee wishes to identify authors who might make interesting contributions to the web site and to encourage them to participate.

Its history of neuroscience page contains the following sections:

The following links to history sites are listed:



The Society for Neuroscience presents a History of Neuroscience subsection on its About Neuroscience piece http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=HistoryofNeuroscience_main. It contains a rich open material, as well as links to valuable sites with historical material.:

SfN maintains this historical material as a resource for neuroscientists and the public. While not comprehensive, the documents chronicle the struggles and accomplishments of a still-young field and highlight major achievements and advances. Most of all, this information conveys the rigor and passion with which neuroscientists pursue scientific discovery.



The homepage of Club Officiel de la Société des Neurosciences Française contains : Articles en ligne with links to a large number of neurohistorical papers in French and/or English as well as Histoire des neurosciences françaises with links, and/or presentations of famous French neuroscientists, and French institutes of neuroscience in French and/or English.



The History of Neuroscience in Newcastle provides the history of neuroscience at Newcastle presented chronologically in 3 phases of time.



History Committee

Chair
Committee Members

Committee Meeting in Stockholm in Oktober 2011

Committee Meeting in Stockholm in Oktober 2011

For further information, please contact history@fens.org