In order to promote outstanding and original scholarship in the history of the neurosciences, the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) will award a biennial prize to the author or authors of an article published in its Journal of the History of the Neurosciences (JHN). This prize will be awarded at ISHN annual meetings held in odd-numbered years. It was first presented in 2001.

General Rules: Articles must have been published in the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences in the three years preceding the year of the award. For the 2005 award, the article must have appeared in 2002 (volume 11), 2003 (volume 12), or 2004 (volume 13). Articles may be by a single author or by multiple authors, and the author(s) may be from any academic discipline. Authors who wish to be considered for this prize are asked to send the citation of the paper to the Chair of the ISHN Awards and Prizes Committee:

Dr. Marjorie Lorch

Birkbeck College

University of London

43 Gordon Square

London WC1H OPD

ENGLAND

Email: m.lorch AT bbk.ac.uk

Fax: +44 204-383-3729

Nominations must be received no later than 1 April 2005.

Past Awardees: Outstanding Article in the History of the Neurosciences

	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: phosporus and mental philosophy in the nineteenth century. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 1998; 7:108-124