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

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1954

#4962.4

The pharmacological properties of 2-methyl-2-m-propyl-1, 3-propanediol dicarbamate (Miltown), a new interneuronal blocking agent.

BERGER, Frank Milan (1913 – 2008)

Introduction of meprobamate, later used for the treatment of anxiety. Miltown was the first widely prescribed psychotropic drug.

1954

#7351

The human brain in sagittal section.

SINGER, Marcus (1914 – 1994) YAKOVLEV, Paul Ivan (1894 – 1983)

A superb atlas is based on sagittal sections. This was an innovative approach for the time as almost all previous illustration of the adult human brain was typically based on frontal or horizontal sections: “in conseq…

1954

#7981

Ritalin, a new synthetic compound with specific analeptic components.

MEIER, R GROSS, F TRIPOD, J

The authors identified Methylphenidate as a stimulant. It is sold under the trade name Ritalin, and other names.

1955

#4672.3

Immunization of chimpanzees and human beings with avirulent strains of poliomyelitis virus.

SABIN, Albert Bruce (1906 – 1993)
SABIN, Albert Bruce (1906 – 1993)

Sabin reported the successful immunization of chimpanzees by oral and I.M. route using the Brunhilde, Mahoney and Leon strains of polio virus. On p. 1055 he reported the experimental results on humans given a "single …

1955

#4771.1

Eine neue x-chromosomale Muskeldystrophie.

BECKER, P. E. KEINER, F

Becker-type muscular dystrophy.

1955

#2527.1

Crystallization of purified MEF-1 poliomyelitis virus particles.

SCHAFFER, Frederick Leland (1921 – ) SCHWERDT, Carlton Everett (1917 – 1995)

First crystallization of an animal virus.

1956 –1963

#5019

Grosse Nervenärzte. 3 vols.

KOLLE, Kurt (1898 – 1975)

1957

#4729.1

Degenerative disease of the central nervous system in New Guinea. The endemic occurrence of “Kuru” in the native population.

GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008)
GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008) ZIGAS, Vincent (1920 – 1983)

First description of Kuru, a disease occurring in natives of New Guinea. Cause of the disease was unknown. "It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via f…

1957

#12450

Cyclic variation in EEG during sleep and their relation to eye movements, body motility and dreaming.

KLEITMAN, Nathaniel (1895 – 1999) DEMENT, William Charles (1928 – )

The authors conducted the first intensive study of the relationship between rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and dreaming.

1958

#4661.2

St. Louis encephalitis in 1933; observations on epidemiological features.

LUMSDEN, Leslie Leon (1875 – 1946)

In a report to the Surgeon General in 1933, Lumsden concluded that the Culex mosquito was the vector of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. His report was not published until 1958.

1958

#1586

The history and philosophy of knowledge of the brain and its functions: an Anglo-American symposium.

POYNTER, Frederick Noel Lawrence (1908 – 1979)

1958

#7538

Young man Luther: A study in psychoanalysis and history.

ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)
ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)

1959

#5019.1

A history of neurology.

RIESE, Walther (1890 – 1976)

1959

#14242

Receptive fields of single neurones in the cat's striate cortex.

HUBEL, David Hunter (1926 – 2013)
HUBEL, David Hunter (1926 – 2013)
WIESEL, Torsten Nils (1924 – )
WIESEL, Torsten Nils (1924 – )

Also: Hubel & Wiesel, Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex, J. Physiol., 160, 1962, 106-154. In 1981 Hubel and Wiesel shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiol…

1959

#14358

Trigeminal neuralgia: Its history and treatment.

STOOKEY, Byron (1887 – 1966) RANSOHOFF, Joseph (1915 – 2001)

Based on over 700 cases of trigeminalneuralgia which were seen and operated on by Dr. Stookey. The chapters on nonsurgical treatment, alcohol injection, and the statistical studies were prepared by Dr. Ransohoff.

1960

#1931.3

The psychosedative properties of methaminodiazepoxide.

RANDALL, Lowell Orlando (1910 – 2005) & et al.

Librium. With four co-authors.

1960

#13748

The use of LSD in psychotherapy: Transactions of a conference of D-Lysergic Acid Diethymlamide (LSD-25), April 22, 23 and 24, 1959, Princeton, N. J. Edited by Harold A. Abramson.

ABRAMSON, Harold Alexander (1899 – 1980)

1961

#5019.2

The historical development of British psychiatry. Vol. 1. (All published.)

LEIGH, Archibald Denis (1915 – 1998)

1961

#6945

Bibliography of memory.

YOUNG, Morris Nathan (1909 – 2002)

The most complete bibliography to date on this subject. Regarding Young, see the unusually interesting obituary in The New York Times at this link.

1961

#7352

The human cerebellum. An atlas of gross topography in serial sections.

YAKOVLEV, Paul Ivan (1894 – 1983) ANGEVINE, Jay Bernard Jr. (1928 – 2012) MANCALL, Elliott L. (1927 – 2013)

1961

#8866

Thought reform and the psychology of totalism. A study of "brainwashing" in China.

LIFTON, Robert Jay (1926 – )
LIFTON, Robert Jay (1926 – )

1961

#9648

Cerebral organization and behavior: The split brain behaves in many respects like two separate brains, providing new research possibilities.

SPERRY, Roger Wolcott (1913 – 1994)
SPERRY, Roger Wolcott (1913 – 1994)

Sperry and colleagues, including Michael Gazzaniga, conducted extensive experiments on an epileptic patient who had had his corpus collosum, the "bridge" between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, split so t…

1961

#9946

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

FOUCAULT, Paul-Michel (Michel Foucault) (1926 – 1984)

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

1961

#10855

Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.

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

1961

#14281

Fate of tritiated noradrenaline at the sympathetic nerve endings.

AXELROD, Julius (1912 – 2004)
AXELROD, Julius (1912 – 2004) HERTTING, Georg (1925 – 2014)

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 …

1962

#7207

Высшие корковые функции и их нарушение при локальных поражениях мозга.

LURIA, Aleksandr Romanovich (Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Лу́рия) (1902 – 1977)

First English translation: Higher cortical functions in man. New York: Basic Books, 1966.

1962

#8893

The battered-child syndrome.

KEMPE, C. Henry (Karl Heinz Kempe) (1922 – 1984) SILVERMAN, Frederick N. (1914 – 2006) STEELE, Brandt F. (1908 – 2005) DROEGEMUELLER, William SILVER, Henry K. (1918 – 1991)

"In 1962, Dr. C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues led the identification and recognition of child abuse with the defining paper, The Battered Child Syndrome. This paper was regarded as the single most significant event …

1963

#1310.2

The ionic mechanism of postsynaptic inhibition. IN: Prix Nobel in 1963, pp. 261-83.

ECCLES, Sir John Carew (1903 – 1997)
ECCLES, Sir John Carew (1903 – 1997)

Eccles shared the Nobel Prize with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley in 1963. See No. 1310.1.

1963

#5019.3

Three hundred years of psychiatry, 1535-1860: A history presented in selected English texts.

HUNTER, Richard Alfred (1923 – 1981) MACALPINE, Ida (1899 – 1974)

1963

#5019.4

Psychoanalysis, psychology and literature: A bibliography.

KIELL, Norman (1916 – )

Contains 4,460 references.

1963

#9647

Chemoaffinity in the orderly growth of nerve fiber patterns and connections.

SPERRY, Roger Wolcott (1913 – 1994)
SPERRY, Roger Wolcott (1913 – 1994)

Sperry's chemoaffinity hypothesis, which states that neurons make connections with their targets based on interactions with specific molecular markers[1] and, therefore, that the initial wiring diagram of an organism …

1963

#11951

Supranuclear ophthalmoplegia, pseudobulbar palsy, nuchal dystonia and dementia. A Clinical Report on Eight Cases of "heterogenous System Degeneration".

STEELE, John RICHARDSON, John OLSZEWSKI, Jerzy (1913 – 1964)

First description of progressive supranuclear palsy as a distinct disorder. The authors recognized the same clinical syndrome in 8 patients and described the autopsy findings in 6 of them in 1963.

1965

#4914.3

Stereotactic tractotomy in the surgical treatment of mental illness.

KNIGHT, Geoffrey Cureton (1906 – 1993)

1965

#13914

Attempts to demonstrate a transmissible agent in Kuru, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and other subacute and chronic progressive nervous system degenerations in man. Addendum p. 46 in: Slow, latent, and temperate virus infections. NINDB Monograph No. 2. Edited by D. Carleton Gajdusek, Clarence J. Gibbs, Jr., and Michael Alpers.

GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008)
GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008) GIBBS, Clarence Joseph Jr. (1924 – 2001) ALPERS, Michael

In their Addendum on p. 46 the authors stated that 20 and 21 months post innocculation in the brain with brain material from Kuru patients two chimpanzees showed symptoms of an illness suggestive of Kuru. Digital facs…

1965

#14244

The stimulation of epidermal proliferation by a specific protein (EGF).

COHEN, Stanley (1922 – 2020)
COHEN, Stanley (1922 – 2020)

Discovery of Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF). In 1986 Cohen shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rita Levi-Montalcini "for their discoveries of growth factors."

1966 –1974

#86.7

The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud. Translated from the German under the general editorship of James Strachey, in collaboration with Anna Freud, assisted by Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson. 24 vols.

FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
FREUD, Anna (1895 – 1982)
FREUD, Anna (1895 – 1982)
STRACHEY, James Beaumont (1887 – 1967)
STRACHEY, James Beaumont (1887 – 1967)

See also: Abstracts of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud, edited by Carrie Lee Rothgeb, with an introduction on reading Freud by Robert R. Holt. (New York: Jason Aronson, 1973).…

1966

#4914.4

The diagnosis of stupor and coma.

PLUM, Fred (1924 – 2010) POSNER, Jerome B. (1932 – )

Rationalized the diagnosis of various levels of the unconscious state, correlating these with brain lesions.

1966

#5019.6

The history of psychiatry: An evaluation of psychiatric thought and practice from prehistoric times to the present.

ALEXANDER, Franz Gabriel (1891 – 1964) SELESNICK, Sheldon Theodore (1925 – )

1966

#7716

Écrits.

LACAN, Jacques Marie Émile (1901 – 1981)
LACAN, Jacques Marie Émile (1901 – 1981)

Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, translated by Bruce Fink (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006).

1966 –1980

#9588

The writings of Anna Freud. 8 vols.

FREUD, Anna (1895 – 1982)
FREUD, Anna (1895 – 1982)

1968

#5019.7

A history of the treatment of speech disorders.

ELDRIDGE, Margaret

1968 –1982

#7349

1: The brain stem of the cat: a cytoarchitectonic atlas with stereotaxic coordinates. 2: The thalamus and basal telencephalon of the cat: a cytoarchitectonic atlas with stereotaxic coordinates.

BERMAN, Alvin L. JONES, Edward G. (1938 – 2011)

Large folio. Images reproduced from contact prints recorded on 14 x 17 inch Kodak high-contrast metallographic plates. The first volume was by Alvin L. Berman; the second volume was by Berman and Edward G. Jones.

1968

#7928

The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.

ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )

1968

#9848

Soma: Divine mushroom of immortality.

WASSON, Robert Gordon (1898 – 1986)

Ethnomycologist and banker Wasson provided evidence for the important role that hallucinogenic mushrooms - in particular the ubiquitous mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) - play in various ancient and modern cultu…

1968

#11751

Crime and insanity in England. Volume one: The historical perspective. (All published.)

WALKER, Nigel (1917 – 2014)

1969

#5019.8

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

MCHENRY, Lawrence C. (1929 – 1985)

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.

1969

#7540

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

ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)
ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)

1969

#7916

Bürger und Irre. Zur Sozialgeschichte und Wissenschaftssoziologie der Psychiatrie.

DÖRNER, Klaus (1933 – )

1969

#10041

On death and dying.

KÜBLER-ROSS, Elisabeth (1926 – 2004)

"The Kübler-Ross model - otherwise known as the five stages of grief - postulates a progression of emotional states experienced by both terminally ill patients after diagnosis and by loved-ones after a death. The five…

1969

#10637

George III and the mad business.

HUNTER, Richard Alfred (1923 – 1981) MACALPINE, Ida (1899 – 1974)