History of Neuroscience

(psy 241)

Readings

 

There is no textbook for this course. Weekly readings will be drawn from a variety of sources and are available on the course website:  Access Weekly Readings (password required)

 

 

Reading list for Fall 2005 (subject to change)

 

Weeks 1 & 2

 

Finger, Stanley (2000) Chapter 3:  Hippocrates - The brain as an organ of the mind.  In Minds behind the brain.  New York: Oxford University Press.  pp 21-37.

 

Hippocrates “On Injuries of the Head”.  Translated by Francis Adams

 

Discussion: Aristotle “On Dreams” Translated by J.I. Beare

 

Week 3

 

Mechanistic Basis of Physiological Psychology.  In Source Book in Animal Biology.  Thomas S. Hall ed.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.  pp 272-282

 

Brazier, M.A. (1984) Chapter 2: The Mechanistic Revolution Opens.  In A History of Neurophysiology in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries.  New York: Raven Press.  pp 19-33.

 

Finger, S. (2000) Chapter 7:  Thomas Willis – The Functional Organization of the Brain.  In Minds behind the brain.  New York: Oxford University Press.  pp 85-99.

 

Week 4

 

Brazier, M.A. (1984) Chapter 3: A New Technique Comes to Neural Science.  In A History of Neurophysiology in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries.  New York: Raven Press.  pp 19-33.

 

Cobb, M, (2002) Exorcising the animal spirits: Jan Swammerdam on nerve function. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 3:395-400.

 

Week 5

 

Finger, S. (2000) Chapter 8:  Luigi Galvani – Electricity and the nerves.  In Minds behind the brain.  New York: Oxford University Press.  pp 101-117.

 

Kettenmann, H (1997) Alexander von Humboldt and the concept of animal electricity.

Trends in Neurosci. 20:239-242.

 

Brazier, M.A. (1984) Chapter 14: Attempts at Electrotherapy.  In A History of Neurophysiology in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries.  New York: Raven Press.  pp 187-193.

 

Week 6

 

Brazier, M.A. (1988) Chapter 11: The brain yields its electricity.  In A History of Neurophysiology in the 19^th Century.  New York: Raven Press.  pp 185-211.

 

Reynolds, E.H. (2004) Todd, Faraday, and the electrical basis of brain activity.  Lancet Neurol. 3:557-563.

 

Week 7

 

Finger, S. (2000) Chapter 9:  Franz Joseph Gall – The cerebral organs of mind.  In Minds behind the brain.  New York: Oxford University Press.  pp 119-136.

 

Tyler, K.L. and Malessa, R.(2000) The Goltz–Ferrier debates and the triumph of cerebral localizationalist theory.  Neurology 55:1015-1024

 

Week 8

 

Finger, S. (2000) Chapter 10:  Paul Broca – Cortical localization and cerebral dominance.  In Minds behind the brain.  New York: Oxford University Press.  pp 137-154.

 

M.-Marsel Mesulam (2002) The Human Frontal Lobes: Transcending the Default Mode through Contingent Encoding.  In Principles of Frontal Lobe Function (Stuss & Knight eds) New York: Oxford University Press.  pp 8-30.

 

Dalgleish, T. (2004) The emotional brain.  Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 5:582-589

 

Week 9

 

Sotelo, C. (2003) Viewing the brain through the master hand of Ramon Y Cajal. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 4: 71-77.

 

Llinás, R. R. (2003) The contribution of Santiago Ramon Y Cajal to functional neuroscience.  Nature Reviews Neuroscience 4: 77-80.

 

Cajal, Santiago Ramón Y Cajal (1906). The structure and connections of neurons. In Nobel Lectures: Physiology or Medicine: 1901-1921. Amsterdam: Elsevier

 

Week 10

 

Corkin, S. (2002) What’s new with the amnesiac patient H.M.? Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 3:153-160.

 

Eagleman, D.M. (2001) Visual Illusions and Neurobiology. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 2(12): 920-6.

 

Wade, N. J. (2004). Visual neuroscience before the neuron. Perception, 33, 869-889.

 

Bonus!

Bruce. D (2001) Fifty Years Since Lashley's In Search of the Engram: Refutations and Conjectures.  Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 10: 308-318.

 

Week 11

 

Aristotle.  (350 BC) On sense and the sensible.  Part 3. Translated by J.I. Bearse.

 

von Helmholtz, H. (1924) Treatise on Physiological Optics: Volume 2.  pp 141-146

 

Newton, I (1718) The first book on opticks.  Part 2.   138-141.

 

Finger, S. (1994) Chapter 8: The ear and theories of hearing.  In Origins of Neuroscience New York: Oxford University Press.  pp 108-123.

 

Finger, S. (1994) Chapter 9: Audition and the central nervous system.  In Origins of Neuroscience New York: Oxford University Press.  pp 123-133.

 

Week 12

 

Sutton, S., Braren, M., Zubin, J., and John, E.R.  (1965) Evoked potential correlated of stimulus uncertainty. Science. 150:1187-1188.

 

Davis, P.A. (1939) Effects of acoustic stimuli  on the waking human brain.  J Neurophysiol 2: 494-499.

 

Schiller, F. (1997) A memoir of olfaction.  Journal of the history of the neurosciences.  6:133-146.

 

Week 13

 

Huxley, AF (1953). "Electrical processes in nerve conduction" pp. 23-34, in Ion Transport Across Membranes, edited by Hans T. Clarke. Academic Press Inc., NY, NY.

 

Hodgkin, AL (1976). "Chance and design in electrophysiology: an informal account of certain experiments on nerve carried out between 1934 and 1952" pp. 1-22, in The Pursuit of Nature: Informal essays on the history of physiology, edited by A.L. Hodgkin et al. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

 

Week 14  (no class)

 

 

Week 15

 

Kandel, E.R,  and Squire, L.R. (2000) Neuroscience: Breaking Down Scientific Barriers to the Study of Brain and Mind

Science  290: 1113-1120

 

Raichle, M (1998) Behind the scenes of functional brain imaging: A historical and physiological perspective. 

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 765–772