Neuroscience without borders: Preserving the history of neuroscience

The Amazing History of Neuroscience

Living safer and healthier was a top priority for the ancients: when they hurt their heads in battle, they used to heal their wounds using the remedies they had discovered on their own. Some of these remedies were recorded on a papyrus now known as Edwin Smyth Papyrus [2]. Interestingly, this is the oldest written evidence of the word brain we have on Earth, and it dates back to 3500 years ago ...

Psychiatry and neuroscience - history.

The ideal of inexorable scientific progress, characterized by expanding knowledge and increased sophistication and complexity, is a defining characteristic of themodern self-image of the natural sciences and can even be objectivelyquantified.Rider (1944) anddeSolla Price (1963), the founders of bibliometrics and scientometrics, notedmany years ago that fromthe 17th century onward thenumberof sc...

The Prospects of Epigenetics in Neuroscience

Literature and the History of Neuroscience

Why is the novella The Yellow Wallpaper used in teaching a course on the history of neuroscience? This story, published in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, describes the experience of a woman undergoing the “rest cure” prescribed for her depression. While seen in 1920 as a shockingly realistic tale of mental decline, a “Poesque tale of chilling horror” (Howells, 1920), it was revived in the 19...

The history of neuroscience in autobiography

understanding of the baffling relationship between dental hospitals and their schools. Addressed in turn are the dental politics which spawned the School, its various locations, the tetchy relations between hospital and school in the inter-war years and the problematic absorption of the hospital into the National Health Service. The tale concludes with the closure of the School as a result of c...