Program: Symposium on the History of the Neurosciences (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel: 12 December 2001)
The following is the program for a symposium organized by ISHN member Moshe Feinsod at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which included ISHN member Sam Greenblatt. It was attended by more than 75 people. --RJ Symposium on the History of the Neurosciences Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel 12 December 2001 9.15-9.45 Get Together and Refreshments 9.45-10.00 Prof. R. Beyar (Dean, Faculty of medicine) Prof. P. Lavie (Vice President for Resource and Foreign Relations Development) Prof. M. Feinsod (Head, Division of Clinical Neuroscience) 10.00-10.30 S.H. Greenblatt "Can historical study contribute to ongoing science? The Jacksonian background to 20th century neuroscience" 10.30-11.30 Y. Yovel "On Freud's biology of the mind" 11.30-12.00 P. Lavie "How it all started: from the Pickwickian to the sleep apnea syndrome" 12.00-12.30 S. & N. Blumen "Neurological bricks for a metaphysical building: Henri Bergson's 'Matter and Memory' " 12.30-13.00 M. Feinsod "Tatsuji Inouye's pioneering study of the effects of gunshot wounds of the cortical visual area" 13.00-14.30 Lunch 14.30-15.00 S.H. Greenblatt "Harvey Cushing's early paradigmatic contributions to neurosurgery" 15.00-15.30 E. Dolev "The death of King Fulk of Jerusalem: Could he be saved by a neurosurgeon?" 15.30-16.00 A. Korczin "Bacilus epilepticus" 16.00-16.30 M. Abeles "Time scales for cortical activity" ###