Neuroanniversary 2023.

Abstract

Swiss physiologist Walter Rudolf Hess (1881–1973) won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain—particularly, the diencephalon— involved in physiological functions of internal organs. Candace Beebe Pert (1946–2013) was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who collaborated with Solomon Snyder (b. 1938) at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Their discovery of the opiate receptor was announced in their article, “Opiate Receptor: Demonstration in Nervous Tissue,” published in Science in 1973. Alexander Romanovich Luria (1902–1977) was one of the leading pioneers in the developing field of neuropsychology during the postwar period. His seminal psychology textbook, The Working Brain, appeared in 1973 and was soon translated into many languages.