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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Duane E. Haines (1943–2024)	9
Introduction	6
Edvard Munch’s crisis in 1908 and French medicine: His doctors, treatments, and sources of information	5
Charcot and Léon Daudet: A missed love story?	5
Walter Eichler and his role in the development of electroneurography	4
Brouillet’s Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière as an epistemic tool in Charcot’s research on hysterical amnesia	4
Charcot’s international visitors and pupils from Europe, the United States, and Russia	4
Charcot as a collector and critic of the arts: Relationship of the ‘founder of neurology’ with various aspects of art	3
Neuroanniversary 2023	3
From testicles to brain: Understanding Dante’s dream through medieval medicine	3
Herbis, non verbis, fiunt medicamenta vitae : The Italian botanist Arturo Nannizzi (1887–1961) and his contribution to the treatment of parkinsonism following encephalitis lethargic	3
The forgotten militant and his enduring mission: Zing-Yang Kuo and his extraordinary years in behavioral neuroembryology (1929–1939)	3
Pathology and Visual Culture: The Scientific Artworks of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and the Salpêtrière School	3
“All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity”: A Bio-Bibliography of Dr Thomas Willis 1621–1675	3
The memory for words: Armand Trousseau on aphasia	2
Ivan Pavlov’s conditioned reflexes and Ivane Beritashvili’s doctrine of image-driven behavior: Materialism, myth, and politics	2
Sectorization of the hippocampal formation: Cytoarchitectonics, topography, or vulnerability to hypoxia?	2
Neuroscience history interview with Professor Wolf Singer, emeritus director at the Department of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main	2
An overview of headache treatments during the tenth century	2
The trial of David Ferrier, November 1881: Context, proceedings, and aftermath	2
E. H. Sieveking and his cephalalgia epileptica	2
Between Moscow and Berlin: The Russian connections behind Flatau’s “Law of Eccentric Location of Long Pathways in Spinal Cord”	2
António Egas Moniz: From pioneering brain imaging to controversial psychosurgery. A 150th birthday celebration	2
The early history of the knee-jerk reflex in neurology	2
From brain cytoarchitectonics to clinical neurology: Polish Institute for Brain Research in Vilnius, 1931–1938	2

Charcot’s contribution to the problem of language in mental medicine	2
Cranial surgery and the pericranium	1
The Last Voyage of Jean-Martin Charcot	1
George Kenneth York III	1
Ghost cells: Wilder Penfield and the characterization of glia and glial pathology, 1924–1932	1
Two faces of the teacher: Comparing editions of Charcot’sLeçons du mardi	1
Echoes of William Gowers’s concept of abiotrophy	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
The ‘worm’ in our brain. An anatomical, historical, and philological study on the vermis cerebelli	1
The historical and philosophical roots of emergentism in the neurosciences	1
Charcot and recent French cinema	1
David Ferrier’s “complex whole”: Early traces of a “brain network” concept	1
Contextualizing ovarian pain in the late 19th century — Part 2: Ovarian-based treatments of “hysteria”	1
Ethical questions arising from Otfrid Foerster’s use of the Sherrington method to map human dermatomes	1
Ada Potter and her microscopical neuroanatomy atlases	1
Alexander disease: The story behind an eponym	1
The evolution of plasticity in the neuroscientific literature during the second half of the twentieth century to the present	1
Historical forerunners of neuropsychiatry: The psychiatric works of Albert W. Adamkiewicz (1850–1921)	1
W. J. Adie and his “pyknolepsy,” a century ago	1
On the English (1931) and Spanish (1932) translations of von Economo’s classic monograph on encephalitis lethargica	1
The Good Cartesian: Louis de La Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical Paradigm	1
Correction	1
Eugène-Louis Doyen and his Atlas d’Anatomie Topographique (1911): Sensationalism and gruesome theater	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
Correction	1
Sesquicentenary of the knee jerk reflex: The contributions of Hughlings Jackson, Horsley, and Sherrington	1
Brain research on Nazi “euthanasia” victims: Legal conflicts surrounding Scientology’s instrumentalization of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society’s history against the Max Planck Society	1
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-	1
The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron	1
Malcolm Bruce Macmillan (1929–2024)	0
Neuroscience history interview with Professor Bert Sakmann, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1991), Max Planck Society, Germany	0
Developing the theory of the extended amygdala with the use of the cupric-silver technique	0
A New Field in Mind: A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences	0
‘A divine right to photograph’: E. Graeme Robertson’s (1903–1975) historical motion pictures of National Hospital staff in 1933	0
Contextualizing ovarian pain in the late 19th century—Part 1: Women with “hysteria” and “hystero-epilepsy”	0
The prominent role of Charcot and the French neurological tradition in Latin America	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
A brief history of the Australasian Neuroscience Society	0
Mr. Humble & Dr. Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul	0
Haloperidol’s introduction in the United States: A tale of a failed trial and its consequences	0
Phrenology’s frontal sinus problem: An insurmountable obstruction?	0
Early Australian neuroscientists and the tyranny of distance	0
Hikikomori (引きこもり): Ancient term, modern concept	0
Evolution of the myth of the human rete mirabile traced through text and illustrations in printed books: The case of Vesalius and his plagiarists	0
Carl Bergmann (1814–1865) and the discovery of the anatomical site in the retina where vision is initiated	0
Charcot’s erroneous double-semidecussation scheme for the retinocortical visual pathways	0
The medieval cell doctrine: Foundations, development, evolution, and graphic representations in printed books from 1490 to 1630	0
The stone of madness: Charcot’s interest in a copy after Pieter Bruegel Sr. as referred to by Henry Meige	0
The Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin.	0

Venae spermaticae post aures: The early modern angiology-neurology of virility	0
René Cruchet (1875–1959), beyond encephalitis lethargica	0
Illustrating insanity: Allan McLane Hamilton,Types of Insanity, and physiognomy in late nineteenth-century American medicine	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
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century brain maps relating to locations and constructions of brain functions	0
The transition from cranial surgery to neurosurgery in East London, 1760–1960	0
Lathyrism in Spain: Lessons from 68 publications following the 1936–39 Civil War	0
NeurHistAlert 26	0
Drug dependence as a split object: Trajectories of neuroscientification and behavioralization at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry	0
Charcot and hallucinations: A study in insight and blindness	0
Ernst Brücke and Sigmund Freud: Physiological roots of psychoanalysis	0
The transnational move of interdisciplinarity: Ginseng and the beginning of neuroscience in South Korea, 1970–1990s	0
Cross-sectional representations of the central nervous system in Pirogov’s “Ice Anatomy”	0
The peripheral nerve: A neglected topic in Charcot’s neurological work	0
The vision of Helmholtz	0
Neuropathological images in the great pathology atlases	0
The first historical description of chronic subdural hematoma: A tale of inaccurate interpretation, inaccurate quoting and inaccurate requoting	0
The concept of the Schwann cell by Louis Ranvier and his school: The ‘interannular segment’ as a cell unit	0
Then there were 12: The illustrated cranial nerves from Vesalius to Soemmerring	0
The collaboration of Francis Forster and Wilder Penfield in the management of a girl with ‘reflex epilepsy’	0
Charcot’s interest in faith healing	0
Early depiction of anterior spinal arteries and veins in André du Laurens’s Historia anatomica humani corporis (1600)	0
Changing graphic representations of the brain from the late middle ages to the present	0
Remarkable things: Visual evidence and excess at Charcot’s Salpêtrière	0
Male hysteria in theory and practice: Analyzing patient records of the Tartu Psychiatric Hospital (Estonia), 1881–1895	0
The electrified artist: Edvard Munch’s demons, treatments, and sketch of an electrotherapy session (1908–1909)	0
What caused Joan of Arc’s neuropsychiatric symptoms? Medical hypotheses from 1882 to 2016	0
Neuroanniversary 2025	0
Adolf Kussmaul (1822–1902), and the naming of “poliomyelitis”	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
The neurosciences at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen	0
The advent of epilepsy directed neurosurgery: The early pioneers and who was first	0
Sympathetic Understanding	0
From hypochondrium to hypochondria	0
Did King Yeongjo (1694–1776) of Joseon Dynasty Korea suffer dementia during the last decade of his reign?	0
Royle’s sympathectomy for spastic paralysis: Sorry saga or scientific awakening?	0
Radical Treatment: Wilder Penfield’s Life in Neuroscience	0
Jean-Martin Charcot, member of thesis juries at the Paris Medical School (1862–1893)	0
Henry Hun and his family: Three foundational stories in the history of nineteenth-century American neurology, Part II. Edward Hun (1842–1880) and the beginnings of neurological research in nineteenth-	0
John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution, and Victorian Brain ScienceSamuel H. Greenblatt. John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution, and Victorian Brain Scienc	0
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	0
La Retina de los Vertebrados	0
Lytico-bodigin Guam: Historical links between diet and illness during and after Spanish colonization	0
Edward Trautner (1890–1978), a pioneer of psychopharmacology	0
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	0
On old Olympus? Oliver Wendell Holmes and the origin and evolution of a mnemonic couplet for the cranial nerves	0
David Ferrier’s second monkey (‘monkey F’): The inaugural experimental studies of the auditory cortex	0
NeurHistAlert 27	0
Scientific plurality and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): A philosophical and historical perspective on Charcot’s texts	0
Heinrich Müller (1820-1864) and the entoptic discovery of the site in the retina where vision is initiated	0
Book Review	0
On the history of neuroscience research in the Max Planck Society, 1948–2002—German, European, and transatlantic perspectives: Introduction	0
Charcot and the psychology of hysteria, with special reference to a never published final case history	0
Representations of the olfactory bulb and tracts in images of the medieval cell doctrine	0
Rita Levi-Montalcini e il suo Maestro, Una grande avventura nelle Neuroscienze alla Scuola di Giuseppe Levi	0
Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience	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
Neuroanniversary 2024	0