International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN)

Lifetime Contribution to the History of the Neurosciences

	2007	Samuel H. Greenblatt (Providence, Rhode Island)
	2005	Christopher U.M. Smith (Birmingham, England)
	2003	John B. Lyons (Dublin, Ireland)  and  F. Clifford Rose (London, England)
	2002	Louise H. Marshall (Los Angeles, California)  and  Francis Schiller (San Francisco, California)
	2001	Hansruedi Isler (Zürich, Switzerland)

Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences

	2006	Julius Rocca Galen on the Brain: Anatomical Knowledge and Physiological Speculation in the Second Century AD Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2003
	2004	Joseph D. Robinson Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission: Bridging the Gaps (1890-1990) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001
	2002	Malcolm B. Macmillan An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000

Outstanding Student Essay in the History of the Neurosciences

	2006	Mical Raz (History of Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University; M.D./Ph.D. candidate) Bodily Parts, Bodily Wholes; Social Parts, Social Wholes: Lobotomy between Holism and Localizationism
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	2002	Paul Foley (University of Würzberg; Ph.D. dissertation) Beans, Roots and Leaves: A History of the Chemical Theory of Parkinsonism

Outstanding Article in the History of the Neurosciences

	2007	Alla A. Vein (Leiden, The Netherlands) for editing a special double issue of Journal of the History of the Neurosciences (v. 16, no. 1-2, January 2007) on the History of Russian Neuroscience
	2005	Stanley Finger (St. Louis, Missouri) and Nick Wade (Dundee, Scotland) The neuroscience of Helmholtz and the theories of Johannes Muller. Part 1: Nerve cell structure, vitalism, and the nerve impulse. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2002; 11(2):136-155 [and] The neuroscience of Helmholtz and the theories of Johannes Muller. Part 2: Sensation and perception. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2002; 11(2):234-254
	2003	William T. Clower (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Lesions as therapy: rigidity and Parkinson's Disease. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2001; 10(1):93-106 [and] Lesions as therapy: surgical intervention in Parkinson's disease prior to L-Dopa. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2002; 11(4):375-391
	2001	Theodore Sourkes (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) An element of thought: phosphorus and mental philosophy in the nineteenth century. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 1998; 7:108-124

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