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1,258 entries match Neurology & Psychiatry [C10 / F04]
1886
#1329
On the structure, distribution, and function of the nerves which innervate the visceral and vascular system.
Gaskell established the origin of the preganglionic neurons (white rami).
1886
#4752
Contribution à l’étude de la myopathie atrophique progressive (myopathie atrophique progressive, à type scapulo-huméral).
“Landouzy–Dejerine type” of progressive muscular dystrophy.
1886 –1891
#84
Œuvres complètes ed J.-M. Charcot. Recueillies et publiées par D. M. Bourneville [and others]. 9 vols.
Charcot, famous teacher at La Salpêtrière, created there the greatest neurological clinic of his time. He was a pioneer of psychotherapy and left many memorable descriptions of nervous disorders. Pierre Marie, who die…
1886
#1368
The structure and combination of the histological elements of the central nervous system.
Nansen, better known for his Arctic explorations, was the first to point out that the posterior root fibers divide on entering the spinal cord into ascending and descending branches. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…
1886
#1416
Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervoso.
Golgi’s histological studies made a clear conception of the nervous system possible for the first time. He demonstrated the existence of multipolar nerve-cells (Golgi cells) by means of his silver nitrate stain, and d…
1886
#1883.01
Om Periodiske Depressionstilstande og deres Patogenese.
Lange was the first to use a mixture of drugs containing lithium carbonate for the preventive treatment of periodic depression. This work contains the “first unequivocal account of prophylactic drug treatment for an e…
1886
#4944
Psychopathia sexualis; eine klinisch-forensische Studie.
Krafft-Ebing revised the book through 12 editions. Digital facsimile of the first edition from wellcomecollection.org at this link. English translation as Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexu…
1887
#4678
Ueber die Aetiologie der akuten Meningitis cerebro-spinalis.
Weichselbaum discovered the meningococcus, Neisseria meningitidis, causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis.
1887
#4705
On arrested cerebral development, with special reference to its cortical pathology.
Sachs described the cerebral changes in amaurotic familial idiocy. Earlier, Tay (No. 5918) had recorded the ocular manifestations of this condition, which became known as “Tay-Sachs’s disease”. Two further papers on t…
1887
#4784
Sur un cas de paraplégie par névrites périphériques, chez un ataxique morphiomane.
First description of peripheral neuritis, “Dejerine’s neurotabes”.
1887
#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—although there are…
1887
#1368.2
Einige hirnanatomische Betrachtungen und Ergebnisse.
Independently of His, Forel formulated the neuron theory.
1887
#1416.1
A minute analysis (experimental) of the various movements produced by stimulating in the monkey different regions of the cortical centre for the upper limb, as defined by Professor Ferrier.
Beevor, physician to the National Hospital, Queen Square, London, collaborated with Horsley in an important series of investigations of the localization of cerebral function.
1887
#1417
Leçons sur les fonctions motrices du cerveau.
François-Franck’s studies on the excitability of the cerebral cortex and the localization of function followed work in collaboration with Pitres; Charcot wrote the preface. See also No. 1423.
1887
#1418
Ueber einen Fall von chronischer progressiver Lähmung der Augenmuskeln (Ophthalmoplegia externa) nebst Beschreibung von Ganglien-zellengruppen im Bereiche des Oculomotoriuskems.
“Westphal’s nucleus” – for accommodation – in the third cranial nerve. Called also “Edinger’s nucleus” (see the same journal, 1885, 16, 858-89).
1887
#4945
Disturbance of psychic activity in alcoholic paralysis.
“Korsakoff’s psychosis” or syndrome – alcoholic polyneuritis with loss and falsification of memory. A second paper on the subject in Ezhened. klin. Gaz., 1889, 9, 85, 115, 136, is translated into English in Neurology,…
1887
#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.
1887
#7796
Die psychischen Störungen des Kindesalters. IN: Carl Gerhardt's Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten, Nachtrag II.
The first systematic monograph on child psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1887
#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.
1887
#9121
Ten days in a mad-house.
By newspaper reporter Nellie Bly, this book was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World newspaper. The book collected Bly's reportage while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned i…
1887
#12295
Sphygmographische Untersuchungen an Geisteskranken.
Ziehen, a student of Hermann Munk, wrote his habiltation thesis on sphygmographic studies of psychiatric patients. This was the first monograph on the subject.
1888
#344
Mémoires sur le cerveau de l’homme et des primates publiés avec un introduction et des notes par Le docteur S. Pozzi.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1888
#4574
Intracranial tumours.
1888
#4706
Ueber die Diagnose der Syringomyelie.
First complete description of syringomyelia.
1888
#4753
An atypical case of Thomsen’s disease (myotonia congenita).
Dana described a combination of myotonia and muscular atrophy.
1888
#4573
Sur une affection caractérisée par de l’astasie et de l’abasie.
“Blocq’s disease” – astasia–abasia.
1888 –1918
#4575
NOUVELLE Iconographie de la Salpêtriere. 28 vols.
Henry Meige, Richer, and other pupils of Charcot published many valuable studies of the constitutional aspects of nervous diseases in the above work, a series unique in the history of medicine and of great value for t…
1888
#7334
Estructura de los centros nerviosos de las aves.
"The foundational article of modern cellular neuroscience. . . . this is where Cajal first demonstrated with the Golgi method how neurons interact by contact not continuity in the adult central nervous system—in this …
1889
#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, Charles CThomas, 1971.
1889
#1329.1
On the local paralysis of peripheral ganglia, and on the connexion of different classes of nerve fibres with them.
Langley and Dickinson studied the effect of nicotine on nerve fibers, and were able by this means to make a thorough investigation of the distribution of nerve fibers.
1889
#4785
Sur l’atrophie musculaire des ataxiques.
Dejerine ranks high in French neurology. He became clinical chief at the Salpêtrière. He separated peripheral from medullary tabes, wrote on the tabetic muscular atrophies, on the parietal lobe syndrome, and made many…
1889
#1419
A record of experiments upon the functions of the cerebral cortex.
A detailed analysis, by means of faradic stimulation, of the motor responses of the cerebral cortex, internal capsule, and spinal cord of higher primates.
1889
#1419.1
Laboratory notes of technical methods for the nervous system.
Van Gieson’s acid fuchsin and picric acid stain for nerve tissue.
1889
#2100
Des polynévrites en général et des paralysies et atrophies saturnines en particulier.
Madame Dejerine-Klumpke, famous neurologist, contributed an important work on lead palsies.
1889
#4861
The treatment of epilepsy.
Alexander was the first to attempt the treatment of epilepsy by surgical means. He removed the superior cervical sympathetic ganglia. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889
#4976.1
L’Automatisme psychologique.
Janet argued that “hysterical symptoms are due to subconscious fixed ideas that have been isolated and usually forgotten. Split off from consciousness – ‘dissociated’ – they embody painful experiences, but become auto…
1889
#7335
Die Neuroblasten und deren Entstehung im embryonalen Mark.
In this paper on neuroblasts (young neurons) and their development in the embryonic spinal cord, His coined the term, “dendrite,” for what had been called protoplasmic processes since the term was introduced by Deiter…
1889
#11276
The cerebral palsies of children.
Osler's monograph on cerebral palsy helped define this condition. "Osler emphasized the diverse causes of childhood hemiplegia. Osler classified his patients with nonprogressive upper motor neuron dysfunction accordin…
1890
#4577
On the symptomatology of total transverse lesions of the spinal cord, with special reference to the condition of the various reflexes.
“Bastian’s law”, transverse lesion of the cord above the lumbar enlargement results in the abolition of the tendon reflexes of the lower extremities.
1890
#4667
En epidemi af infantil paralysi.
The epidemic character of poliomyelitis was first noted by Medin. The disease is also known as “Heine–Medin disease” from the descriptions given by these two writers (see also No. 4664). German version in Verh. X. Int…
1890
#4786
Die Therapie atactischer Bewegungsstörungen.
Frenkel devised certain muscular exercises for use in the treatment of tabes dorsalis.
1890
#1420
Ueber ein abnormes Faserbündel der menschlichen Medulla oblongata.
“Pick’s bundle” of nerve fibres in the medulla oblongata.
1890
#1282
Ueber den Nachweis der Unermüdlichkeit des Säugethiernerven.
Bowditch demonstrated the indefatigability of nerve (“Bowditch’s law”).
1890
#1284
Photographic determination of the time-relations of the changes which take place in muscle during the period of so-called ‘latent stimulation.’
Measurement by means of photography, of the speed of the nervous impulse.
1890
#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.
1890
#4863
Removal of the gasserian ganglion for severe neuralgia.
Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia; the patient lived for at least two years.
1890 –1930
#4632
Klinische und anatomische Beiträge zur Pathologie des Gehirns. 8 pts. in 10 vols.
An important summary of the knowledge concerning aphasia appears in vols. 5-7.
1890
#4754
Étude clinique sur la maladie de Thomsen (myotonie congénitale).
First description of dystrophia myotonica (“Déléage’s disease”).
1891
#4577.1
Ueber Veränderungen des Kleinhirns infolge von Hydrocephalie des Grosshirns.
Charii I malformation. See No. 4581.1. See also Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1896, 63, 71-116.
1891
#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 in lang…