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Pierre Marie, 1916-1917: Functional radiographic imaging of vision and aphasia. 皮埃尔·玛丽，1916-1917：视觉和失语症的功能性放射成像。

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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2025.2511625

Richard Leblanc

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From testicles to brain: Understanding Dante's dream through medieval medicine. 从睾丸到大脑：通过中世纪医学理解但丁的梦。

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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2025.2461785

Francesco Brigo, Paolo Benna, Lorenzo Lorusso, Enrico Volpe, Giorgio Zanchin

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David Ferrier's "complex whole": Early traces of a "brain network" concept. 戴维-费里尔的 "复杂整体"：大脑网络 "概念的早期痕迹。

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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2024.2405116

Cornelis Stam

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Ivan Pavlov's conditioned reflexes and Ivane Beritashvili's doctrine of image-driven behavior: Materialism, myth, and politics. 伊万-巴甫洛夫的条件反射和伊万-贝里塔什维利的形象驱动行为学说：唯物主义、神话与政治

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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2024.2405110

S Brian Hood

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David Ferrier's second monkey ('monkey F'): The inaugural experimental studies of the auditory cortex. David Ferrier的第二只猴子（“猴子F”）：听觉皮层的首次实验研究。

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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-06 DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2024.2436676

Andrew J Larner, Timothy D Griffiths

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Sesquicentenary of the knee jerk reflex: The contributions of Hughlings Jackson, Horsley, and Sherrington. 膝跳反射一百五十周年：休林斯·杰克逊、霍斯利和谢林顿的贡献。

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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-07 DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2024.2443142

Guleed Adan, Andrew J Larner

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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-century America. 亨利·亨和他的家人：19世纪美国神经病学史上的三个基本故事，第二部分。Edward Hun（1842-1880）和19世纪美国神经学研究的开端。

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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-08 DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2024.2429040

Spencer Weig

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Gemelli's legacy in the knowledge of spatial orientation in flight. Gemelli在飞行空间定位知识方面的遗产。

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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2025.2511619

Paola Verde, Laura Piccardi

{"title":"Gemelli's legacy in the knowledge of spatial orientation in flight.","authors":"Paola Verde, Laura Piccardi","doi":"10.1080/0964704X.2025.2511619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0964704X.2025.2511619","url":null,"abstract":"Agostino Gemelli, an Italian Franciscan physician and psychologist, was a pioneer in aviation psychology and spatial orientation research in the early twentieth century. This historical article explores Gemelli's groundbreaking contributions to understanding spatial cognition, particularly in aviation contexts, decades before contemporary scientific findings. During World War I, Gemelli, a medical officer and pilot, focused on selecting pilots based on their attitudes rather than their physical abilities. His work predated crucial developments in spatial cognition, including concepts of field dependence/independence and environmental representation. Gemelli examined perception through Gestalt psychology, showing that people create mental images of space instead of just recording what they see. Gemelli critically analyzed spatial orientation, distinguishing between ground and aerial navigation and recognizing the complex interaction between internal cognitive characteristics and external environmental factors. He anticipated modern research on spatial representation, emphasizing the dynamic nature of spatial perception and individual differences in cognitive processing. This article highlights Gemelli's insights in relation to modern science, showcasing his keen understanding of spatial cognition, pilot skills, and perception. His contributions, largely ignored after World War II, were an important early exploration of the cognitive mechanisms behind spatial orientation and aviation psychology.","PeriodicalId":49997,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of the Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144327588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How did Johann Christian Reil feel the insular cortex? Gemeingefühl as a seat of mind. 约翰·克里斯蒂安·雷尔是如何感受岛叶皮层的？gemeingefhl是一种心灵的寄托。

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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2025.2495948

Michiaki Nagai, Satoshi Kato

{"title":"How did Johann Christian Reil feel the insular cortex? Gemeingefühl as a seat of mind.","authors":"Michiaki Nagai, Satoshi Kato","doi":"10.1080/0964704X.2025.2495948","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0964704X.2025.2495948","url":null,"abstract":"Johann Christian Reil was the first to coin the term \"psychiatry\" in 1808, prior to that he had proposed Gemeingefühl (coenaesthesis), which is interpreted as referring to the integrated information of all senses and emotions. On the other hand, in 1809, Reil formally described the insular cortex as die Insel and considered the insular cortex to serve as the pedestal of mental activity. The background to Reil's research had been the social, religious, cultural, and political context of social upheaval in Europe at the time, particularly in Germany and France, which had a major impact on the academic and medical systems he advocated. For over 200 years, the relationship between Gemeingefühl and the insular cortex has remained a mystery. However, recent neuroimaging studies are beginning to shed light on the function of the insular cortex. This article provides an overview of Reil's life as reported to date and summarizes Reil's achievements in medicine from the perspectives of physiology, neuroanatomy, and psychiatry. Furthermore, we interpreted the Gemeingefühl as proposed by Reil in relation to gemeinsinn (sensus communis) and common sense, and provide a perspective on the role of the insular cortex as a seat of the mind, society and culture.","PeriodicalId":49997,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of the Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144005113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluating evidence for the cortical localization for language: Systematic reviews in the 1860s and 1870s. 语言皮层定位的证据评估：19世纪60年代和70年代的系统回顾。

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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2025.2487419

Marjorie Lorch

{"title":"Evaluating evidence for the cortical localization for language: Systematic reviews in the 1860s and 1870s.","authors":"Marjorie Lorch","doi":"10.1080/0964704X.2025.2487419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0964704X.2025.2487419","url":null,"abstract":"The specialization of cortical function for language was proposed by Paul Broca (1824-1880) in 1861 and further elaborated to include the principle of hemispheric lateralization in 1865. Broca and other French colleagues argued for and against these hypotheses, employing clinical and pathological observations of individuals with acquired language disorders as evidence. These ideas became a topic of widespread interest after the debates at the Paris Academy of Medicine in 1865 were reported internationally. During this period until the end of the decade, hundreds of publications appeared on the localization and laterality of findings in aphasic individuals and case series. Several large-scale systematic reviews of historic (pre-1861) and contemporary (post-1861) clinical findings were published only a few years after the syndrome had been proposed. These aimed to determine the strength and quality of evidence regarding the specialization and lateralization of brain areas for language. However, their authors held distinct theoretical assumptions and ideological concerns and were motivated by varied research questions. These comprehensive efforts using systematic review methodology to assess the evidence for and against hypotheses about the organization of language in the brain are examined to expose the issues of live debate in early neuroscience.","PeriodicalId":49997,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of the Neurosciences","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144051282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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