Skip to main content
Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Facets

Browse across eight MeSH (opens in new tab) facets — era, geography, science, specialty, technology, history, culture, and reference. Select one tag per group; counts update across the others. What’s new in facet browse how facets relate to subjects and MeSH.

Clear filters

Historical Eras

Geography

Natural & Physical Sciences

Specialties & Disease

Social & Historical Studies

Institutions & Culture

Reference & Scholarly Works

Drugs & Technology

1,258 entries match Neurology & Psychiatry [C10 / F04]

Sort by YearSort by Author

1940

#4661

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

DURAND, Paul (1895 – 1961)

“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.

1940

#4661.1

Studies of a murine strain of poliomyelitis virus in cotton rats and white mice.

JUNGEBLUT, Claus Washington (1897 – 1976) SANDERS, Murray Jonathan (1910 – 1987)

Isolation of encephalomyocarditis virus.

1940

#4614

Neurology 2 pts. Edited by A.N. Bruce.

WILSON, Samuel Alexander Kinnier (1878 – 1937)
WILSON, Samuel Alexander Kinnier (1878 – 1937)

Wilson died before this monumental work was completed, and it was edited by A. N. Bruce. It includes a vast amount of history and hundreds of references. Second edition, 1954.

1940

#13073

Psychiatric nursing technic.

BENNETT, Abram Elting (1898 – ) PURDY, Avis B.

1941

#4614.1

Encephalography.

ROBERTSON, Edward Graeme (1903 – 1975)

Robertson improved the accuracy and reliability of encephalography and reduced its discomforts.

1941

#4910.1

Epilepsy and cerebral localization: A study of the mechanism, treatment and prevention of epileptic seizures.

PENFIELD, Wilder Graves (1891 – 1976)
PENFIELD, Wilder Graves (1891 – 1976) ERICKSON, Theodore

Penfield’s most widely recognized contribution was the gradual development of cortical excision as an accepted and valuable method of treating medically refractory focal epilepsy. See also No. 4914.2.

1941

#5013

A history of medical psychology.

ZILBOORG, Gregory (1890 – 1959)
ZILBOORG, Gregory (1890 – 1959) HENRY, George William (1889 – )

1942

#4614.2

L’acropathie ulcéro-mutilante familiale.

THÉVENARD, André (1898 – 1959)

“Thévenard’s disease” – hereditary sensory neuropathy, earlier reported by Auguste Nélaton: Affection singulière des os du pied. Gaz. Hôp. Paris, 1852, 4, 13.

1943

#1928.1

Partialsynthese von Alkaloiden vom Typus des Ergobasins.

STOLL, Arthur (1887 – 1971)
STOLL, Arthur (1887 – 1971)
HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008)
HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008)

Synthesis of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).

1943

#4911

Three types of nerve injury.

SEDDON, Sir Herbert John (1903 – 1977)

Seddon’s classification of nerve injuries.

1943

#7347

An atlas of the basal ganglia, brain stem and spinal cord, Based on myelin-stained material.

RILEY, Henry Alsop (1887 – 1966)

"Classic atlas of the human brain (excluding the cerebral and cerebellar cortex). Each structure has a blurb with varying amounts of useful historical and factual information. There is also a very useful bibliography …

1943

#7357

A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity.

MCCULLOCH, Warren Sturgis (1898 – 1969)
PITTS, Walter Harry Jr. (1923 – 1969)
PITTS, Walter Harry Jr. (1923 – 1969)

This paper described the McCulloch-Pitts neuron, the first mathematical model of a neural network. Digital text available at this link.

1943

#7625

Autistic disturbances of affective contact.

KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)
KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)

The first description of “early infantile autism” as a disorder marked by extreme detachment, self-isolation, inability to form relationships, frequent failure to acquire communicative abilities, and preoccupation wit…

1943

#11259

The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894) OBERNDORF, Clarence Paul (1882 – 1954)

A classically trained Freudian psychoanalyst reviewed the psychiatric insights - advanced for his time - that Holmes expressed in his novels.

1944

#4615

Iodinated organic compounds as contrast media for radiographic diagnoses. III. Experimental and clinical myelography with ethyl iodophenylundecylate (pantopaque).

STEINHAUSEN, Theodore Behn (1914 – 1999) & et al.

Introduction of “pantopaque” for diagnosis of cerebral tumors. With C. E. Dungan, J. B. Furst, J. T. Plati, S. W. Smith, A. P. Darling, and E. C. Wolcott.

1944

#4689.1

Penicillin in the treatment of meningitis.

ROSENBERG, David Harry (1903 – ) ARLING, Philip Arthur (1908 – 1955)

1944

#5014

Studies in reflexes. History, psychology, synthesis and nomenclature.

WARTENBERG, Robert (1887 – 1956)

Also published in book form, Chicago, 1945.

1944

#7626

Die "Autistischen Psychopathen" im Kindesalter.

ASPERGER, Hans (1906 – 1980)
ASPERGER, Hans (1906 – 1980)

Early infantile autism (Asperberger's syndrome).

1945

#5015

The falling sickness: A history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology. Second edition.

TEMKIN, Oswei (1902 – 2002)

Revised second edition. Baltimore, 1971.

1946

#4726

Ueber Parpanit, einen neuen estrapyramidal-motorische Störungen beeinflussenden Stoff.

GRÜNTHAL, Ernst (1894 – 1972)

Introduction of caramiphen (“parpanit”) in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.

1946

#4727

Le traitement de la maladie de Parkinson par le chlorhydrate de diéthylaminoéthyl-N-thiodiphénylamine (2987 R.P.). Premiers résultats.

SIGWALD, Jean (1903 – ) & et al.

Introduction of “diparcol” in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. With D. Boyet and G. Dumont.

1946

#1354.1

A specific sympathomimetic ergone in adrenergic nerve fibres (sympathin) and its relations to adrenaline and nor-adrenaline.

EULER, Ulf Svante Hansson von (1905 – 1983)
EULER, Ulf Svante Hansson von (1905 – 1983)

Noradrenaline shown to be the predominant transmitter of the effects of sympathetic nerve impulses. In 1970 Euler shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Katz and Axelrod "for their discoveries concernin…

1947

#4615.1

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

MOORE, George Eugene (1920 – 2008)

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

1948

#1451.1

Die funktionelle Organisation des vegetativen Nervensystems.

HESS, Walter Rudolf (1881 – 1973)
HESS, Walter Rudolf (1881 – 1973)

In 1949 Hess shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Egas Moniz in 1949 “for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs.”

1948

#4991.1

Cybernetics: or control and communication in the animal and the machine.

WIENER, Norbert (1894 – 1964)
WIENER, Norbert (1894 – 1964)

Foundation of "the science of control and communication theory, named ‘cybernetics’ by Wiener, from the Greek word ‘kubernetes’ or steersman. Automation, information feedback, regulators in engineering and biology, an…

1949

#4671.1

Cultivation of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus in cultures of various human embryonic tissues.

ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985)
WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)
WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)
ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003)
ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003)

Enders, Weller, and Robbins grew the poliomyelitis virus in cultures of different tissues. Their method proved of great value in virus research, and removed the final obstacles to vaccine production. In 1974 Enders, W…

1949

#4728

Un nouveau médicament symptomatique des syndromes parkinsoniens: le chlorhydrate de [(diéthylamino-2’-methyl-2’) éthyl-1-’] N-dibenzoparathiazine.

SIGWALD, Jean (1903 – )

Introduction of ethopropazine (“lysivane”) in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.

1949

#4729

Trihexyphenidyl. Evaluation of the new agent in the treatment of parkinsonism.

CORBIN, Kendall Brooks (1907 – 1999)

Clinical introduction of benzhexol (“artane”) in Parkinson’s disease.

1949

#1930.1

Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement.

CADE, John Frederick Joseph (1912 – 1980)
CADE, John Frederick Joseph (1912 – 1980)

The first clinical trial of lithium.

1949

#4914

Revascularization of the brain through establishment of a cervical arteriovenous fistula. Effects in children with mental retardation and convulsive disorders.

BECK, Claude Schaeffer (1894 – 1971) & et al.

With C. F. McKhann and W. D. Belnap.

1949

#4962.2

The biology of mental defect.

PENROSE, Lionel Sharples (1898 – 1972)

1949

#5015.1

The mentally ill in America. A history of their care and treatment from colonial times. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

DEUTSCH, Albert (1905 – 1961)

1949

#12735

The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory.

HEBB, Donald Olding (1904 – 1985)

Hebb connected the biological function of the brain as an organ together with the higher function of the mind. He studied how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning. In this wo…

1950

#5016

Bibliography of electroencephalography, 1875-1948. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Suppl. No. 1

BRAZIER, Mary Agnes Burniston Brown (1904 – 1995)

Covers both normal and disease states. Suppl. No. 23 (1964), ed. M. Fink, covers the period 1951-62.

1951

#4672.4

A bibliography of infantile paralysis 1789-1949. With selected abstracts and annotations. 2nd edition.

SALMONSEN, Ella Maud (1885 – 1971)
FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976)
FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976)
HEKTOEN, Ludvig (1863 – 1951)
HEKTOEN, Ludvig (1863 – 1951)

An exhaustive list of books and papers.

1951

#7348

The study of instinct.

TINBERGEN, Nikolaas (1909 – 1988)
TINBERGEN, Nikolaas (1909 – 1988)

Foundation of ethology, the scientific study of animal behavior. "It was based on a series of six lectures at Columbia University in 1947 and presented a general model of animal behavior. Basically, it was about metho…

1951

#9732

Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.

DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)

1952

#4672

Evaluation of Red Cross gamma globulin as a prophylactic agent for poliomyelitis.

HAMMON, William McDowell (1904 – 1989) & et al.

Trial of gamma globulin in the prophylaxis of poliomyelitis. With L. L. Coriell, J. Stokes, P. F. Wehrle, and C. R. Klimt.

1952

#4672.1

Immune responses in human volunteers upon oral administration of a rodent-adapted strain of poliomyelitis virus.

KOPROWSKI, Hilary (1916 – 2013)
KOPROWSKI, Hilary (1916 – 2013) & et al.

Successful immunization against poliomyelitis with a living attenuated virus vaccine. With G. A. Jervis and T. W. Norton.

1952

#1354.2

Different forms of signalling employed by the nervous system.

KATZ, Sir Bernard (1911 – 2003)
KATZ, Sir Bernard (1911 – 2003)

In 1970 Katz shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ulf von Euler and J. Axelrod "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, re…

1952

#1931

Reserpin, der sedative Wirkstoff aus Rauwolfia serpentina Benth.

MÜLLER, J. M. & et al.

Isolation of reserpine. With E. Schlittler and H. J. Bein.

1952

#4962.3

Trente-huit cas de psychoses traitées par la cure prolongée et continue de 4560 R. P. C. R. Congr. Alien, et Neurol, de Langue Franç.

DELAY, Jean (1907 – 1987)
DENIKER, Pierre (1917 – 1998)
DENIKER, Pierre (1917 – 1998)

Introduction of chlorpromazine in the treatment of psychosis. Chlorpromazine was later marketed in the United States as Thorazine.

1952

#9738

Psychoanalytic explorations in art.

KRIS, Ernst (1900 – 1957)

Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.

1952

#11103

Studies on the cultivation of poliomyelitis viruses in tissue culture.

ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985)
WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)
WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)
ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003)
ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003) & et al.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Weller, Enders, Robbins. In this paper the authors describe their improved method for culturing poliomyelitis viruses in "normal kidney tissue." Followed by Robbins, We…

1952

#13047

Diagnostic and statistical manual: Mental disorders with special supplement on plans for revision.

COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE AND STATISTICS, AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION

The first edition was known as DSM-1; DSM-5 was published in 2013.

1953

#4615.3

The parietal lobes.

CRITCHLEY, MacDonald (1900 – 1997)

Defines for the first time the various functions of the parietal lobes.

1953

#4672.2

Studies in human subjects on active immunization against poliomyelitis. 1. A preliminary report of experiments in progress.

SALK, Jonas Edward (1914 – 1995)
SALK, Jonas Edward (1914 – 1995) & et al.

Killed-virus vaccine. With four co-authors.

1953

#1931.1

Propriétés pharmacodynamiques du chlorhydrate de chloro-3 (diméthylamino-3’propyl) -10 phénothiazine (4.560 R.P.).

COURVOISIER, Simone & et al.

Chlorpromazine. With J. Foumel, R. Ducrot, M. Kolsky, and P. Koetschet. Chloropromazine was later marketed in the United States as Thorazine.

1953

#12449

Regularly occurring periods of eye motility, and concomitant phenomena, during sleep.

KLEITMAN, Nathaniel (1895 – 1999) ASERINSKY, Eugene (1921 – 1998)

Aserinsky, one of Kleitman's graduate students, decided to hook sleepers up to an early version of an electroencephalogram machine, which scribbled across 1⁄2 mile (800 m) of paper each night. In the process, Aserinsk…

1954

#4914.2

Epilepsy and the functional anatomy of the human brain.

PENFIELD, Wilder Graves (1891 – 1976)
PENFIELD, Wilder Graves (1891 – 1976) JASPER, Herbert Henri (1906 – 1999)

This comprehensive monograph on the mechanism and surgical treatment of epileptic seizures remains Penfield’s most substantial scientific work. See also No. 4910.1.