Neuroscience History Archives Poster Index
1983 to Present

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Posters (#1 - 41) prepared for exhibit at the 35th meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, 27-29 April 1983, by FA Brewer, EMR Lomax, LH Marshall, YV O'Neill, and HW Magoun

Leading American Publications in the History of Neuroscience

  1. Haymaker's exhibit at the International Congress of Neurology, Paris, 1949
  2. From exhibit to publication: The Founders of Neurology
  3. From The Founders of Neurology to the Haymaker Archives at UCLA
  4. C. Donald O'Malley, historian of medicine, UCLA
  5. Edwin Clarke and Donald O'Malley's The Human Brain and Spinal Cord
  6. Fielding H. Garrison and the history of medicine and neurology
  7. Lawrence C. McHenry, Jr.'s expansion of Garrison's History of Neurology

Anatomy: Evolution, Lateralization, Localization

  1. Australopithecine remains
  2. From Australopithecus to Homo erectus
  3. Neanderthal and CroMagnon man: The development of tools and the birth of art
  4. Lateralization in early human activities
  5. Lateralization in writing
  6. Early concepts of the brain emphasizing its ventricles
  7. Early illustrations of the intestinal model of cerebral convolutions
  8. Growth of knowledge of the corpus callosum
  9. The sylvian fissure: Discovery and embryogenesis
  10. The sylvian fissure: Comparative development
  11. The rolandic fissure and pre- and postcentral gyri
  12. Localization of speech in the human brain
  13. Carl Wernicke's contributions to aphasia
  14. Aphasia: The French school
  15. Speech disorders: Some early references
  16. Henry Head and Russell Brain
  17. Three major American contributions to aphasia studies
  18. Contemporary Americans and aphasia
  19. Reducing the spread of intractable epileptic seizures in man
  20. Asymmetry of hemispheric function and the Nobel award

Substrates of Consciousness

  1. Neural substrates of consciousness
  2. Conflicting views on brain stem and consciousness
  3. An early exhibit on the neural substrates of consciousness
  4. The exhibit's conclusions and the collaborators
  5. Current support for brain stem role in consciousness
  6. John Eccles's views on consciousness and its substrates

An Early School of Neurology in Los Angeles

  1. Locations of the Los Angeles Institutions
  2. Early hospitals and medical schools
  3. The pioneers: S.D. Ingham and C.W. Rand
  4. The second generation: C.B. Courville
  5. The second generation: J.M. Nielsen

Brief History of Stereotaxis

  1. The Horsley-Clarke stereotaxic instrument
  2. Ernest Sachs and the second unit
  3. S. Walter Ranson's Institute of Neurology

Posters prepared for meetings of the Society for Neuroscience (except where otherwise noted)

  1. The initial meeting of the Axonologists. I. Gerard's invitation. LH Marshall (1983)
  2. The initial meeting of the Axonologists. II. The response from Washington University. LH Marshall (1983)
  3. The initial meeting of the Axonologists. III. From Harvard and Pennsylvania. LH Marshall (1983)

  4. Felice Fontana's wax figures of the cortical convolutions. MV Anker, M Millsap, and HW Magoun (1987)
  5. Felice Fontana's wax figures of the cortical convolutions in the mammalian series. HW Magoun and M Millsap (1987)
  6. Experimental studies of the cortical convolutions. CD Clemente and LH Marshall (1987)

  7. History of "spark and soup." I. Electrophysiology. HW Magoun and LH Marshall (1987)
  8. History of "spark and soup." II. Neurotransmitters. LH Marshall and HW Magoun (1987)

  9. Landmarks in neurochemistry. I. Hensing and Thudicum. LH Marshall and HW Magoun (1987)
  10. Landmarks in neurochemistry. II. Neurotransmission to 1940. HW Magoun and LH Marshall (1987)

  11. History of stereotaxis in neuroscience. I. Origins. LH Marshall and HW Magoun (1988)
  12. History of stereotaxis in neuroscience. II. Revival. HW Magoun and LH Marshall (1988)

  13. Neuroscience in Chicago 50 years ago: Concepts and characters. I. Ranson and Gerard. LH Marshall and HW Magoun (1989)
  14. Neuroscience in Chicago 50 years ago: Concepts and characters. II. Bailey and McCulloch. HW Magoun and LH Marshall (1989)

  15. The Herricks as neuroscientists. I. Clarence Luther Herrick (1858-1904). HW Magoun and LH Marshall (1990)
  16. The Herricks as neuroscientists. II. Charles Judson Herrick (1868-1960). LH Marshall and HW Magoun (1990)

  17. Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) I. Early accomplishments in neuroanatomy and scientific illustration. RA Johnson and LH Marshall (1991)
  18. Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) II. The Spanish tradition in neuroscience. LH Marshall and RA Johnson (1991)

  19. Ripley's Believe It or Not!: An historical representation of neuroscience facts and artefacts in the popular press. RA Johnson (1990)
  20. The Brain is Wider than the Sky: An historical survey of brain imagery in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. RA Johnson and LL Butcher (1991)

  21. Some prominent figures in IBRO History. LH Marshall (1992) - Exhibited at meeting of the International Brain Research Organization
  22. Substrates of consciousness. LH Marshall (1992)
  23. Saving the seals: Logos of neuroscience societies and organizations. RA Johnson and LH Marshall (1992)

  24. Fixation and preservation of neural tissue: A brief history. LL Butcher, RA Johnson, and LH Marshall (1993)
  25. An early neuroscience event: The Moscow Colloquium of October 6-11, 1958. LH Marshall and RA Johnson (1993)
  26. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), gentleman neuroscientist? Letters to friends about a new book by Pierre Flourens (1824). RA Johnson and LH Marshall (1993)

  27. Antivivisection and neuroscience in the 19th century. RA Johnson and TW Farris (1994)
  28. Historic surveys in neuroscience. LH Marshall (1994)

  29. Neuroscience journal offprints and reprints. RA Johnson and LH Marshall (1995)
  30. The wave that crested in the Society for Neuroscience. LH Marshall and RA Johnson (1995)

  31. Establishing a Brain Research Institute at UCLA: An exhibit on the 35th anniversary of its opening. RA Johnson (1996) - Prepared to accompany BRI anniversary lecture by LH Marshall
  32. Neuroscience in antiquarian children's books: From the Orbis Pictus of Johann Comenius to Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno. RA Johnson (1996)
  33. The organization of aggregates: Neuroscience leaders and their institutes. LH Marshall and S Bedi (1996)

  34. A historical and illustrative survey in neuroscience in search for location of the soul. S Bedi and LH Marshall (1997)
  35. Webb Haymaker's Founders of Neurology: The exhibits, the books, and the collections. RA Johnson, LH Marshall, and KES Donahue (1998)
  36. Internet resources for neuroscience history: An update. RA Johnson (1998, 1999)


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