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

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1970

#1588.7

Mind, brain and adaptation in the nineteenth century. Cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier.

YOUNG, Robert Maxwell (1935 – )

1970

#5019.9

The founders of neurology. One hundred and forty-six biographical sketches by eighty-nine authors. Compiled and 2nd edition.

HAYMAKER, Webb Edward (1902 – 1984) SCHILLER, Francis (1909 – 2003)

Neuroanatomists, neurophysiologists, neuropathologists, clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons are included. 1st ed., 1953, had 133 biographies; 2nd ed. has 146, 34 of which have been added. Because the 2nd edition d…

1970

#5019.10

Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.

TINTEROW, Maurice M.

Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.

1970

#7010

Discoveries in biological psychiatry.

AYD, Frank J. Jr. (1920 – 2008) BLACKWELL, Barry (1934 – )

Proceedings of an international symposium sponsored by the Taylor Manor Hospital in Baltimore in 1970, including first person accounts by those who discovered the original drugs in each of the major categories of psyc…

1970

#9122

Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.

SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)

Revised edition, 1990.

1971

#4672.5

A history of poliomyelitis.

PAUL, John Rodman (1893 – 1971)
PAUL, John Rodman (1893 – 1971)

1971

#4729.2

Transmission of two subacute spongiform encephalopathies of man (Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) to New World monkeys.

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

Following Hadlow's suggestion (1959), Gadjusek was able to transmit Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease to primates through cerebral inoculations. Similarity in the clinical course of the diseases and in the cellular p…

1971

#1588.8

Historical aspects of cerebral anatomy.

MEYER, Alfred

A highly detailed, very technical, but well-documented study.

1971

#5019.11

The classical brain stem syndromes. Translations of the original papers with notes on the evolution of clinical neuroanatomy.

WOLF, John K.

1971

#7159

The anatomy of the nervous system of Octopus vulgaris.

YOUNG, John Zachary (1907 – 1997)
YOUNG, John Zachary (1907 – 1997)

1971

#7353

Atlas of the mouse brain and spinal cord.

ANGEVINE, Jay Bernard Jr. (1928 – 2012) SIDMAN, Richard Leon TABER PIERCE, Elizabeth

"This is an exceptionally systematic, beautifully produced atlas of the mouse central nervous system in the three standard planes, with alternating cell-stained (Nissl method with cresyl violet) sections and myelin-st…

1971

#10765

Freud and the Americans: The beginnings of psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917.

HALE, Nathan G. Jr. (1922 – 2013)

1971

#10857

Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.

MARRIOTT, Alice Lee (1910 – 1992) RACHLIN, Carol King (1919 – 2013)

"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…

1971

#10858

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)

1971

#14258

The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat.

O'KEEFE, John (1939 – )
O'KEEFE, John (1939 – ) DOSTROVSKY, Jonathan

See also: O'Keefe, "Place units in the hippocampus of the freely moving rat," Experimental Neurology, 51 (1976) 78–109. O’Keefe and his student Jonathan Dostrovsky discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that t…

1971

#14298

Marijuana reconsidered.

GRINSPOON, Lester (1928 – 2000)

A cultural classic on the understanding of the marijuana experience, and reform of prohibitions against marijuana use by a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Besides describing marijuana's psychologica…

1972

#8805

The trade in lunacy: A study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

PARRY-JONES, William Llewelyn (1935 – 1997)

1973

#9131

Awakenings.

SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)

Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…

1973

#9153

Mental institutions in America: Social policy to 1873.

GROB, Gerald N. (1931 – 2015)

1973

#10735

Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.

HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)

Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".

1974

#1588.14

The way in and the way out. François Magendie, Charles Bell and the roots of the spinal nerves. With a facsimile of Charles Bell’s annotated copy of his Idea of a new anatomy of the brain. Edited by Paul Cranefield.

BELL, Sir Charles (1774 – 1842)
BELL, Sir Charles (1774 – 1842) MAGENDIE, François (1783 – 1855) CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003)

An annotated bibliography of the literature documenting the history of this controversy together with reproductions of the texts of the crucial papers. See Nos. 1254-1259.

1974

#5019.12

Psychiatry for the poor. 1851 Colney Hatch Asylum: Friem Hospital 1973. A medical and social history.

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

This is in effect a history of institutional psychiatry in Britain to time of writing.

1974

#5019.13

Breakthroughs in hypothalamic and pituitary research. In: Integrative hypothalamic activity, editors D.F. Swaab and J.P. Schadé.

HAYMAKER, Webb Edward (1902 – 1984)
ANDERSON, Evelyn
ANDERSON, Evelyn

1974

#5019.15

A centennial bibliography of Huntington’s chorea, 1872-1972.

BRUYN, George Willem (1928 – 2002)

Over 2,000 references to original works. Chronological arrangement. Author, geographic and other indexes. With F. Baro and N. C. Myrianthopoulos.

1974

#6935

A selective inhibitor of serotonin uptake: Lilly 110140, 3-(p-Trifluoromethylphenoxy)-n-methyl-3-phenylpropylamine.

WONG, David T. (1936 – )

The first paper on the anti-depressant fluoxetine, marketed under the trade name Prozac. With Jong S. Horng, Frank P. Bymaster, Kenneth. L. Hauser, and Bryan B. Molloy. doi:10.1016/0024-3205(74)90345-2. PMID 4549929

1974

#7009

Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.

SWAZEY, Judith P. (1939 – )

Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…

1974

#14115

Multi-infarct dementia. A cause of mental deterioration in the elderly.

HACHINSKI, Vladimir (1941 – ) LASSEN, Niels Alexander (1926 – 1997) MARSHALL, J.

The authors showed that contrary to the prevailing view that most dementias were caused by hardened brain arteries (cerebral atherosclerosis), most were multi-infarct dementias—dementias caused by multiple, small, oft…

1975

#1588.15

The neurosciences: Paths to discovery.

WORDEN, Frederic Garfield (1918 – 1995) SWAZEY, Judith P. (1939 – ) ADELMAN, George (1926 – )

Thirty-one contributions to a symposium in honour of F. O. Schmitt.

1975

#5019.17

World history of psychiatry. Edited by J.G. Howells.

HOWELLS, John Gwilym (1918 – 2007)

Contributions by 42 authors.

1975

#9430

Mental disorder in earlier Britain: Exploratory studies.

CLARKE, Basil Fulford Lowther

1975

#10641

Paleoneurology 1804-1966: An annotated bibliography.

EDINGER, Johanna Gabrielle Ottilie "Tilly" (1897 – 1967)

1976

#7072

The face of madness. Hugh W. Diamond and the origin of psychiatric photography. Edited by Sander L. Gilman.

GILMAN, Sander L. (1941 – )
DIAMOND, Hugh Welch (1809 – 1886)
DIAMOND, Hugh Welch (1809 – 1886)

Papers by Diamond, including their illustrations, edited with an extensive annotated introduction.

1976

#11035

Hallucinogenic plants of North America.

OTT, Jonathan (1949 – )
OTT, Jonathan (1949 – )

1977

#4914.7

Aspects of coma after severe head injury.

JENNETT, Bryan (1926 – 2008) TEASDALE, Graham Michael (1940 – )

Glasgow Coma Scale for grading brain injury following head trauma.

1977

#5019.14

Neurological classics in modern translation.

ROTTENBERG, David Allan HOCHBERG, Fred Harvey

Full translations of 20 classic European contributions to 19th and 20th century neurology.

1977

#7074

Daniel McNaughton: His trial and the aftermath, edited by Donald J. West and Alexander Walk.

WEST, Donald James (1924 – ) WALK, Alexander (1901 – 1982)

A collective work edited by West and Walk.

1977

#9378

Music and the brain. Studies in the neurology of music. Edited by MacDonald Critchley and R. A. Henson.

CRITCHLEY, MacDonald (1900 – 1997) HENSON, R. A.

1977

#13178

Sigmund Freud's writings: A comprehensive bibliography.

FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939) GRINSTEIN, Alexander (1918 – 2007)

1977

#13277

Wernicke's works on aphasia: A sourcebook and review.

WERNICKE, Carl (1848 – 1905)
WERNICKE, Carl (1848 – 1905) EGGERT, Gertrude H.

1977

#13698

Fluvoxamine, a specific 5-hydroxytryptamine uptake inhibitor.

CLAASSEN, V. DAVIES, J. E. HERTTING, Georg (1925 – 2014) PLACHETA, P.

Fluvoxamine, an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class, used primarily for the treatment of major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It is also used to trea…

1978

#8775

Catalog of works in the neurological sciences collected by Cyril Brian Courville, representative of clinical neurology, neuroanatomy, and neuropathology with particular reference to head trauma.

COURVILLE, Cyril Brian (1900 – 1968) COOPER, William Conrad (1931 – 2006) THOMAS, M. L. Manson

1978

#9434

Mind and madness in ancient Greece: The classical roots of modern psychiatry.

SIMON, Bennett

1978

#10168

The road to Eleusis: Unveiling the secret of the mysteries.

HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008)
HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008) WASSON, Robert Gordon (1898 – 1986) RUCK, Carl A. P. (1935 – )

Argues that the psycho-active ingredient in the secret kykeion potion used in the Eleusinian mysteries was most likely the ergotism causing fungus Claviceps purpurea. Furthermore the book introduced the term "entheoge…

1980

#366.1

Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection…at Windsor Castle. Edited by K.D. Keele and C. Pedretti. 3 vols.

LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 – 1519)
LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 – 1519) KEELE, Kenneth David (1909 – 1987) PEDRETTI, Carlo (1928 – 2018)

Splendid edition reproducing all of the drawings in color, and with the original chronology and integrity of the drawings restored. Text provides transliteration of Leonardo’s notes in the original Italian plus Englis…

1980

#8794

The botany and chemistry of hallucinogens. By Richard Schultes and Albert Hofmann. With a forward by Heinrich Klüver. Revised and enlarged second edition.

HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008)
HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001) KLÜVER, Heinrich (1897 – 1979)

1980

#10736

The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.

HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)

1980

#11736

Thomas Willis's Oxford lectures. Edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.

WILLIS, Thomas (1621 – 1675)
WILLIS, Thomas (1621 – 1675) DEWHURST, Kenneth Eastham (1919 – 1984)

A biographical introduction proceeds Dewhurst's edition of John Locke's transcripts of Willis's lectures from 1663-64 (Bodleian MS Locke f19) and Richard Lower's notes from the 1661-62 lectures in the Robert Boyle pap…

1981

#5019.18

The doctrine of the nerves. Chapters in the history of neurology.

SPILLANE, John David (1909 – 1985)

Deals with the structure, function, and diseases of the nervous system to the end of the 19th century.

1981

#5019.19

La maladie de l’âme. Étude sur la relation de l’âme et du corps dans la tradition médico-philosophique antique.

PIGEAUD, Jackie (1937 – )

1981 –1986

#8324

The complete works, translated into English by Charles Allison Behr. 2 vols.

ARISTIDES, Aelius (Αἴλιος Ἀριστείδης, Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus) (117 – 181)
ARISTIDES, Aelius (Αἴλιος Ἀριστείδης, Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus) (117 – 181) BEHR, Charles Allison

"The six books of Sacred Tales “ are in a class apart. A record of revelations made to Aristides in dreams by the healing god Asclepius…they are of major importance, both as evidence for the practices associated with …