Online Serial: News in Brain and Behavioural Sciences
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L for a sender who is not subscribed.
The current list includes links to a _Washington Post_ article on
Walter Freeman ("Are lobotomies making a comeback?") and a _New York
Times_ piece on Donald Griffin ("Donald Griffin dared to say
that animals think"), as well as recent reflections by Nobelists ("Eric
R. Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine,
predicts that psychiatry and neurology will merge"; "At a lecture in
San Francisco James Watson talks about DNA research since 1953")
There are still some quirks to be worked out. For example, the tease
"Paul Crichton reads Malcolm Macmillan's account of the
story of Phineas Gage" links [click "more"] to Crichton's book review
in _The Lancet_ ... but you have to register with The Lancet to read
the full text. The "Search Keys" [A = Author | S = Subject | G = Group
| W = Web | E = Email | B = Books] could do with some explanation right
off the bat, too ("A" or "S" sometimes launches a PubMed search on the
author's name or the subject, but usually runs a sciBASE search and
returns a list of fee-per-article citations; "B" launches a book title
search on Amazon.com; etc.).
More troubling is the quality of some of sciBASE's searches and data.
The "more" link for "The story of Phineas Gage is one of the oldest,
most intriguing, and most told tales in the history of neuroscience.
The key events occurred in rural Vermont more than 150 years ago"
retrieves the full text of Daniel Tranel's NEJM review of Malcolm
Macmillan's book; no problem there. The "A" ("Author") search,
however, retrieves only one citation for Macmillan--not his monograph,
but his report in v.9 n.1 (2000) of the _Journal of the History of the
Neurosciences_...and lists the journal's publisher as Smith-Gordon,
which hasn't been the case since 1995.
Stay tuned to see how this site develops.
Russell Johnson
HISTNEUR-L administrator
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From: "Ian Pitchford" <Ian.Pitchford@totalise.co.uk>
To: <histneur-l@library.ucla.edu>
Subject: News in Brain and Behavioural Sciences
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:32:59 -0000
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