Awarded History Projects: 2015-2019
The FENS History Committee organises a yearly call for projects reflecting the History of European Neuroscience. A selection is made and the best projects are awarded.
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Projects awarded in 2019
- - 200 years of Lewy Bodies - Dr. Mohamed Salama, Egypt
- - Das Leben ist ein Galvanischer Prozess (Life is a Galvanic Process). Neurology and Electrotherapy in late 18th and early 19th C. Vienna - Dr. Sonia Horn, Austria
- - Gamification and Online Replication of Ebbinghaus (1885) Memory Experiments - Mr. Luiz Henrique Santana, Brazil
- - History of Neurology in India: From the Ancient to the Modern Period - Dr. Dinesh Ramoo, Canada
- - History of neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders (diagnosis and treatment) in ancient and medieval Persia - Dr. Behnam Vafadari, Germany
- - Neuroscience 7,000 years ago - Mr. Hussein Youssef, Turkey
- - The history of Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences in Italy - Dr. Stefano Canali, Italy
- - Through The Eyepiece: The Life and Works of Eduardo P. De Robertis - Mr. Yim Rodriguez, Argentina
- - Wroclaw University neuroanatomical exhibition: brain development and its pathology - Prof. Julita Czarkowska-Bauch, Poland
Projects awarded in 2018
- - Brains by catalogue: surveying preserved Human brains in Portugal - Ana Nunes from Lisboa, Portugal
- - Cell Biology and Neuroscience at the Time of the Development of the Cell Theory - Helmut Kettenmann from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
- - Continuing the legacy of ancient neurosurgeons: Rebuilding ancient trephined skulls with the 3D printing technology - Jagoš Golubović and Nebojša Lasica from the Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Clinic of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
- E.N. Sokolov the founder of vector psychophysiology in Lomonosov Moscow State University - Evgenia Nikonova from Lomonosow Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Living History — The History of Spanish Neuroscience in First Person - Alex Gomez-Marin from the Instituto de Neurociencias, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain
- Neuroscience in Georgia - Mzia Zhvania from the Ilia State University and I. Beritashvili Center of Experimental Biomedicine, Tbilisi, Georgia
- - Neurotoxicology: historical roots in Europe - Michele Augusto Riva from the School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, Monza, Italy
- Pavlov’s wayward pupil: full of twists and turns Jerzy Konorski’s life - Łukasz Bijoch from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS, Warsaw, Poland
- - Tracing the origins of modern neuroscience in ancient Greece - Kyriaki Sidiropoulou from IMBB-FORTH, Heraklio, Greece
- - Unraveling the Past of Women in Neurosciences: their Contributions to Understanding of Brain and Behavior - Isabel María Martín Monzón from the University of Seville, Spain
Projects awarded in 2017
- A Brain Museum Tour of Europe - Richard Brown from Halifax, Canada
- A Virtual Museum of Irish Brain Science - Richard Roche from Maynooth, Ireland
- - Discovery of the first neurotansmitter receptor - Jean-Pierre Changeux from Paris, France
- - European Innovations in Sensory Neuroprostheses - Daniel Rathbun from Tuebingen, Germany
- - Friedrich Sanides: A unifying framework of cortical organization with ontogenetic, phylogenetic and functional ramifications - Alexandros Goulas from Hamburg, Germany
- Heinrich Obersteiner and the Foundation of Neuroscience at 19th C. Vienna - Sonia Horn from Vienna, Austria
- Neuroscience Giants - Valeria Lavín from Madrid, Spain
- - Neuroscience in Naples: institutions and protagonists - Clelia Sedda from Bologna, Italy
- Olga Vinogradova (1929-2001): role of the hippocampus in selection and registration of information - Evgeniia Samokhina from Pushchino, Russia
- - Orbeli’s Phenomenon - Lusine Ghulikyan from Yerevan, Armenia
- - Platon Kostyuk - founder of Ukrainian school of neuroscientists - Elena Lukyanetz from Kyiv, Ukraine
- - Stars and thorns of the Ukrainian neuroscientist Oleksandr Chernyakhivsky - Yuri Chaikovsky from Kyiv, Ukraine
- - The legacy of Russian School of Neurophysiology - Lilya Andrianova from Exeter, United Kingdom
- - The Magnus-Rademaker Neurocinematography Film Collection: European pioneers of the study of body posture and reflexes - Thomas Younts from London, United Kingdom
- The pioneers of neuroscience in Poland - Slawomir Gonkowski from Olsztyn, Poland
Projects awarded in 2016
- - Alexey L. Byzov and the research on the vertebrate retina at the Academy of Sciences of Moscow in the post-Stalinian era - Luigi Cervetto from Pisa, Italy
- - Carlo Besta and the Italian Neurosciences Development - Saba Motta from Milan, Italy
- Gilberto Rossi, a neuroscientist and an intellectual of the Novecento - Giovanni Berlucchi from Verona, Italy
- Neuroscience in British Literature - Roni Tibon from Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Neurosciences in-formation: a visual history of Galvanism - Marco Bresadola from Ferrara, Italy
- The Eduardo Pons Tortellà neurological tissue bank - Miquel Balcells from Barcelona, Spain
- The Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud - Fabian Guenole from Caen cedex 9, France
- The vision of Alfred Yarbus - Nicholas Wade from Dundee, United Kingdom and Galina I. Rozhkova from Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
- Untold Stories: the Women Pioneers of Neuroscience in Europe - Sonia Mele from Ferrara, Italy
Projects awarded in 2015