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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the History of the Neurosciences is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The problematic legacy of victim specimens from the Nazi era: Identifying the persons behind the specimens at the Max Planck Institutes for Brain Research and of Psychiatry	8
Wilhelm Erb (1840–1921), an influential German founder of neurology in the nineteenth century	6
Lytico-bodigin Guam: Historical links between diet and illness during and after Spanish colonization	5
Neuroscience history interview with Professor Wolf Singer, emeritus director at the Department of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main	5
The perversion of language: Jules Baillarger on aphasia, the lateralization of speech, and the Baillarger-Jackson principle	5
Western European influence on the development of Russian neurology and psychiatry, part 1: Western European tours of early Russian neurologists and psychiatrists	5
Heinrich Müller (1820-1864) and the entoptic discovery of the site in the retina where vision is initiated	4
The vision of Helmholtz	4
Then there were 12: The illustrated cranial nerves from Vesalius to Soemmerring	4
The first historical description of chronic subdural hematoma: A tale of inaccurate interpretation, inaccurate quoting and inaccurate requoting	3
Raymond D. Adams and Joseph M. Foley: Elaborating the neurologic manifestations of hepatic encephalopathy (1949–1953)	3
Contextualizing ovarian pain in the late 19th century—Part 1: Women with “hysteria” and “hystero-epilepsy”	3
Evolution of the myth of the human rete mirabile traced through text and illustrations in printed books: The case of Vesalius and his plagiarists	3
René Cruchet (1875–1959), beyond encephalitis lethargica	3
Eugène-Louis Doyen and his Atlas d’Anatomie Topographique (1911): Sensationalism and gruesome theater	2
Ernst Brücke and Sigmund Freud: Physiological roots of psychoanalysis	2
Neuroscience history interview with Professor Bert Sakmann, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1991), Max Planck Society, Germany	2
“All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity”: A Bio-Bibliography of Dr Thomas Willis 1621–1675	2
The medieval cell doctrine: Foundations, development, evolution, and graphic representations in printed books from 1490 to 1630	2
Did King Yeongjo (1694–1776) of Joseon Dynasty Korea suffer dementia during the last decade of his reign?	2
Brain research on Nazi “euthanasia” victims: Legal conflicts surrounding Scientology’s instrumentalization of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society’s history against the Max Planck Society	2
Summarizing the medieval anatomy of the head and brain in a single image: Magnus Hundt (1501) and Johann Dryander (1537) as transitional pre-Vesalian anatomists	2
On the history of neuroscience research in the Max Planck Society, 1948–2002—German, European, and transatlantic perspectives: Introduction	2
Lathyrism in Spain: Lessons from 68 publications following the 1936–39 Civil War	2
The early history of the knee-jerk reflex in neurology	2

Venae spermaticae post aures: The early modern angiology-neurology of virility	2
The electrified artist: Edvard Munch’s demons, treatments, and sketch of an electrotherapy session (1908–1909)	2
What caused Joan of Arc’s neuropsychiatric symptoms? Medical hypotheses from 1882 to 2016	2
Brain Science Under the Swastika: Ethical Violations, Resistance and Victimization of Neuroscientists in Nazi Europe	1
The transnational move of interdisciplinarity: Ginseng and the beginning of neuroscience in South Korea, 1970–1990s	1
Historical forerunners of neuropsychiatry: The psychiatric works of Albert W. Adamkiewicz (1850–1921)	1
Rita Levi-Montalcini e il suo Maestro, Una grande avventura nelle Neuroscienze alla Scuola di Giuseppe Levi	1
Sympathetic Understanding	1
Neuropathological images in the great pathology atlases	1
Urinary paraplegia and William Withey Gull	1
Mr. Humble & Dr. Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul	1
E. H. Sieveking and his cephalalgia epileptica	1
An overview of headache treatments during the tenth century	1
Echoes of William Gowers’s concept of abiotrophy	1
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century brain maps relating to locations and constructions of brain functions	1
A brief history of the Australasian Neuroscience Society	1
Cross-sectional representations of the central nervous system in Pirogov’s “Ice Anatomy”	1
Le langage des crânes. Histoire de la phrénologie	1
Two faces of the teacher: Comparing editions of Charcot’sLeçons du mardi	1
The great family of cerebral ventricles: Some intruders in the portrait gallery	1
The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination	1
Ethical questions arising from Otfrid Foerster’s use of the Sherrington method to map human dermatomes	1
On old Olympus? Oliver Wendell Holmes and the origin and evolution of a mnemonic couplet for the cranial nerves	1
Phrenology’s frontal sinus problem: An insurmountable obstruction?	1
The advent of epilepsy directed neurosurgery: The early pioneers and who was first	1
Between Moscow and Berlin: The Russian connections behind Flatau’s “Law of Eccentric Location of Long Pathways in Spinal Cord”	1
The historical and philosophical roots of emergentism in the neurosciences	1
Haloperidol’s introduction in the United States: A tale of a failed trial and its consequences	1
Encephalitis lethargica in Peru	1
Cranial surgery and the pericranium	1
Contextualizing ovarian pain in the late 19th century — Part 2: Ovarian-based treatments of “hysteria”	1
Neuroscience research in the Max Planck Society and a broken relationship to the past: Some legacies of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society after 1948	1
George Kenneth York III	1
Ada Potter and her microscopical neuroanatomy atlases	1
In memoriam: Henry Szczȩsny Schutta, MD (1928–2020)	1
On the English (1931) and Spanish (1932) translations of von Economo’s classic monograph on encephalitis lethargica	1
The memory for words: Armand Trousseau on aphasia	1
Adolf Kussmaul (1822–1902), and the naming of “poliomyelitis”	0
Charcot and the psychology of hysteria, with special reference to a never published final case history	0
The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron	0
Brouillet’s Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière as an epistemic tool in Charcot’s research on hysterical amnesia	0
Neuroanniversary 2025	0
Henry Hun and his family: Three foundational stories in the history of nineteenth-century American neurology, Part I. Thomas Hun (1808–1896): Nineteenth-century patriarch, neurophilosopher, and proto-	0
The ‘worm’ in our brain. An anatomical, historical, and philological study on the vermis cerebelli	0
Correction	0
Against vivisection: Charcot and Pitres’ discovery of the human motor cortex and the birth of modern neurosurgery and of the surgical treatment of epilepsy	0
Remarkable things: Visual evidence and excess at Charcot’s Salpêtrière	0
NeurHistAlert 26	0
Charcot’s erroneous double-semidecussation scheme for the retinocortical visual pathways	0
W. J. Adie and his “pyknolepsy,” a century ago	0

An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America	0
Hikikomori (引きこもり): Ancient term, modern concept	0
The great family of cerebral ventricles: Some intruders in the portrait gallery	0
Early depiction of anterior spinal arteries and veins in André du Laurens’s Historia anatomica humani corporis (1600)	0
Sectorization of the hippocampal formation: Cytoarchitectonics, topography, or vulnerability to hypoxia?	0
John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution, and Victorian Brain ScienceSamuel H. Greenblatt. John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution, and Victorian Brain Scienc	0
Representations of the olfactory bulb and tracts in images of the medieval cell doctrine	0
Charcot’s contribution to the problem of language in mental medicine	0
Correction	0
Alexander disease: The story behind an eponym	0
Drug dependence as a split object: Trajectories of neuroscientification and behavioralization at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry	0
The stone of madness: Charcot’s interest in a copy after Pieter Bruegel Sr. as referred to by Henry Meige	0
Neuroanniversary 2023	0
Changing graphic representations of the brain from the late middle ages to the present	0
Herbis, non verbis, fiunt medicamenta vitae : The Italian botanist Arturo Nannizzi (1887–1961) and his contribution to the treatment of parkinsonism following encephalitis lethargic	0
NeurHistAlert 27	0
Charcot and hallucinations: A study in insight and blindness	0
The conflicts of Ray Adams and Joe Foley with Abe Baker: The neurology and neuropathology of liver failure (1949–1963) and the founding of the American Academy of Neurology (1948)	0
The trial of David Ferrier, November 1881: Context, proceedings, and aftermath	0
David Ferrier’s “complex whole”: Early traces of a “brain network” concept	0
Ghost cells: Wilder Penfield and the characterization of glia and glial pathology, 1924–1932	0
La Retina de los Vertebrados	0
The Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin.	0
The peripheral nerve: A neglected topic in Charcot’s neurological work	0
The transition from cranial surgery to neurosurgery in East London, 1760–1960	0
Walter Eichler and his role in the development of electroneurography	0
Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience	0
From brain cytoarchitectonics to clinical neurology: Polish Institute for Brain Research in Vilnius, 1931–1938	0
A New Field in Mind: A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences	0
The concept of the Schwann cell by Louis Ranvier and his school: The ‘interannular segment’ as a cell unit	0
Victor Horsley: The World’s First Neurosurgeon and His ConscienceMichael J. Aminoff. Victor Horsley: The World’s First Neurosurgeon and His Conscience . Cambridge, UK: C	0
Neuroanniversary 2022	0
The forgotten militant and his enduring mission: Zing-Yang Kuo and his extraordinary years in behavioral neuroembryology (1929–1939)	0
The evolution of plasticity in the neuroscientific literature during the second half of the twentieth century to the present	0
Charcot’s international visitors and pupils from Europe, the United States, and Russia	0
From hypochondrium to hypochondria	0
Edvard Munch’s crisis in 1908 and French medicine: His doctors, treatments, and sources of information	0
Charcot and recent French cinema	0
Sheila—Unlocking the Treatment for PKU	0
Carl Bergmann (1814–1865) and the discovery of the anatomical site in the retina where vision is initiated	0
Royle’s sympathectomy for spastic paralysis: Sorry saga or scientific awakening?	0
‘A divine right to photograph’: E. Graeme Robertson’s (1903–1975) historical motion pictures of National Hospital staff in 1933	0
Duane E. Haines (1943–2024)	0
Neuroanniversary 2024	0
Developing the theory of the extended amygdala with the use of the cupric-silver technique	0
Scientific plurality and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): A philosophical and historical perspective on Charcot’s texts	0
Early Australian neuroscientists and the tyranny of distance	0
The prominent role of Charcot and the French neurological tradition in Latin America	0
The neurosciences at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen	0
Charcot’s interest in faith healing	0
The collaboration of Francis Forster and Wilder Penfield in the management of a girl with ‘reflex epilepsy’	0
Charcot and Léon Daudet and Charcot: A missed love story?	0
Ivan Pavlov’s conditioned reflexes and Ivane Beritashvili’s doctrine of image-driven behavior: Materialism, myth, and politics	0
Radical Treatment: Wilder Penfield’s Life in Neuroscience	0
António Egas Moniz: From pioneering brain imaging to controversial psychosurgery. A 150th birthday celebration	0
Illustrating insanity: Allan McLane Hamilton,Types of Insanity, and physiognomy in late nineteenth-century American medicine	0
Edward Trautner (1890–1978), a pioneer of psychopharmacology	0
The Idea of Epilepsy: A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern Era (1860–2020)Simon Shorvon. The Idea of Epilepsy: A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern E	0
Jean-Martin Charcot, member of thesis juries at the Paris medical school (1862–1893)	0