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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the History of the Neurosciences is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Phrenology’s frontal sinus problem: An insurmountable obstruction?	9
Radical Treatment: Wilder Penfield’s Life in Neuroscience	6
Sectorization of the hippocampal formation: Cytoarchitectonics, topography, or vulnerability to hypoxia?	5
E. H. Sieveking and his cephalalgia epileptica	4
Malcolm Bruce Macmillan (1929–2024)	4
Brain research on Nazi “euthanasia” victims: Legal conflicts surrounding Scientology’s instrumentalization of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society’s history against the Max Planck Society	4
The concept of the Schwann cell by Louis Ranvier and his school: The ‘interannular segment’ as a cell unit	3
The great family of cerebral ventricles: Some intruders in the portrait gallery	3
Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience	3
The neurosciences at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen	3
Hikikomori (引きこもり): Ancient term, modern concept	3
Ghost cells: Wilder Penfield and the characterization of glia and glial pathology, 1924–1932	3
Charcot and Léon Daudet and Charcot: A missed love story?	3
Ada Potter and her microscopical neuroanatomy atlases	3
The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination	2
Ernst Brücke and Sigmund Freud: Physiological roots of psychoanalysis	2
Scientific plurality and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): A philosophical and historical perspective on Charcot’s texts	2
Neuroscience research in the Max Planck Society and a broken relationship to the past: Some legacies of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society after 1948	2
Ethical questions arising from Otfrid Foerster’s use of the Sherrington method to map human dermatomes	2
Neuropathological images in the great pathology atlases	2
The peripheral nerve: A neglected topic in Charcot’s neurological work	2
Against vivisection: Charcot and Pitres’ discovery of the human motor cortex and the birth of modern neurosurgery and of the surgical treatment of epilepsy	2
George Kenneth York III	2
Sesquicentenary of the knee jerk reflex: The contributions of Hughlings Jackson, Horsley, and Sherrington	2
Charcot’s erroneous double-semidecussation scheme for the retinocortical visual pathways	2

Duane E. Haines (1943–2024)	2
The problematic legacy of victim specimens from the Nazi era: Identifying the persons behind the specimens at the Max Planck Institutes for Brain Research and of Psychiatry	1
Carl Bergmann (1814–1865) and the discovery of the anatomical site in the retina where vision is initiated	1
Male hysteria in theory and practice: Analyzing patient records of the Tartu Psychiatric Hospital (Estonia), 1881–1895	1
Eugène-Louis Doyen and his Atlas d’Anatomie Topographique (1911): Sensationalism and gruesome theater	1
Lathyrism in Spain: Lessons from 68 publications following the 1936–39 Civil War	1
Early depiction of anterior spinal arteries and veins in André du Laurens’s Historia anatomica humani corporis (1600)	1
Alexander disease: The story behind an eponym	1
Brouillet’s Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière as an epistemic tool in Charcot’s research on hysterical amnesia	1
Did King Yeongjo (1694–1776) of Joseon Dynasty Korea suffer dementia during the last decade of his reign?	1
Henry Hun and his family: Three foundational stories in the history of nineteenth-century American neurology, Part II. Edward Hun (1842–1880) and the beginnings of neurological research in nineteenth-	1
Henry Hun and his family: Three foundational stories in the history of nineteenth-century American neurology, Part I. Thomas Hun (1808–1896): Nineteenth-century patriarch, neurophilosopher, and proto-	1
Charcot and the psychology of hysteria, with special reference to a never published final case history	1
Heinrich Müller (1820-1864) and the entoptic discovery of the site in the retina where vision is initiated	1
The collaboration of Francis Forster and Wilder Penfield in the management of a girl with ‘reflex epilepsy’	1
Walter Eichler and his role in the development of electroneurography	1
The stone of madness: Charcot’s interest in a copy after Pieter Bruegel Sr. as referred to by Henry Meige	1
Changing graphic representations of the brain from the late middle ages to the present	1
NeurHistAlert 27	1
The conflicts of Ray Adams and Joe Foley with Abe Baker: The neurology and neuropathology of liver failure (1949–1963) and the founding of the American Academy of Neurology (1948)	1
The early history of the knee-jerk reflex in neurology	1
Jean-Martin Charcot, member of thesis juries at the Paris medical school (1862–1893)	1
Charcot’s international visitors and pupils from Europe, the United States, and Russia	1
The last voyage of Jean-Martin Charcot	1
A New Field in Mind: A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences	1
Contextualizing ovarian pain in the late 19th century — Part 2: Ovarian-based treatments of “hysteria”	1
Edvard Munch’s crisis in 1908 and French medicine: His doctors, treatments, and sources of information	1
Book Review	1
Sympathetic Understanding	1
Introduction	1
‘A divine right to photograph’: E. Graeme Robertson’s (1903–1975) historical motion pictures of National Hospital staff in 1933	0
David Ferrier’s second monkey (‘monkey F’): The inaugural experimental studies of the auditory cortex	0
Charcot and recent French cinema	0
Herbis, non verbis, fiunt medicamenta vitae : The Italian botanist Arturo Nannizzi (1887–1961) and his contribution to the treatment of parkinsonism following encephalitis lethargic	0
The ‘worm’ in our brain. An anatomical, historical, and philological study on the vermis cerebelli	0
Edward Trautner (1890–1978), a pioneer of psychopharmacology	0
Correction	0
The first historical description of chronic subdural hematoma: A tale of inaccurate interpretation, inaccurate quoting and inaccurate requoting	0
Neuroanniversary 2023	0
From testicles to brain: Understanding Dante’s dream through medieval medicine	0
The memory for words: Armand Trousseau on aphasia	0
The advent of epilepsy directed neurosurgery: The early pioneers and who was first	0
Summarizing the medieval anatomy of the head and brain in a single image: Magnus Hundt (1501) and Johann Dryander (1537) as transitional pre-Vesalian anatomists	0
Cross-sectional representations of the central nervous system in Pirogov’s “Ice Anatomy”	0
W. J. Adie and his “pyknolepsy,” a century ago	0
Victor Horsley: The World’s First Neurosurgeon and His ConscienceMichael J. Aminoff. Victor Horsley: The World’s First Neurosurgeon and His Conscience . Cambridge, UK: C	0
Drug dependence as a split object: Trajectories of neuroscientification and behavioralization at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry	0
The Good Cartesian: Louis de La Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical Paradigm	0
The evolution of plasticity in the neuroscientific literature during the second half of the twentieth century to the present	0
Representations of the olfactory bulb and tracts in images of the medieval cell doctrine	0

Charcot’s contribution to the problem of language in mental medicine	0
In memoriam: Henry Szczȩsny Schutta, MD (1928–2020)	0
Raymond D. Adams and Joseph M. Foley: Elaborating the neurologic manifestations of hepatic encephalopathy (1949–1953)	0
Neuroscience history interview with Professor Bert Sakmann, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1991), Max Planck Society, Germany	0
The medieval cell doctrine: Foundations, development, evolution, and graphic representations in printed books from 1490 to 1630	0
Evolution of the myth of the human rete mirabile traced through text and illustrations in printed books: The case of Vesalius and his plagiarists	0
Developing the theory of the extended amygdala with the use of the cupric-silver technique	0
Royle’s sympathectomy for spastic paralysis: Sorry saga or scientific awakening?	0
David Ferrier’s “complex whole”: Early traces of a “brain network” concept	0
On old Olympus? Oliver Wendell Holmes and the origin and evolution of a mnemonic couplet for the cranial nerves	0
The electrified artist: Edvard Munch’s demons, treatments, and sketch of an electrotherapy session (1908–1909)	0
On the history of neuroscience research in the Max Planck Society, 1948–2002—German, European, and transatlantic perspectives: Introduction	0
Neuroscience history interview with Professor Wolf Singer, emeritus director at the Department of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main	0
Haloperidol’s introduction in the United States: A tale of a failed trial and its consequences	0
Charcot as a collector and critic of the arts: Relationship of the ‘founder of neurology’ with various aspects of art	0
The historical and philosophical roots of emergentism in the neurosciences	0
René Cruchet (1875–1959), beyond encephalitis lethargica	0
Between Moscow and Berlin: The Russian connections behind Flatau’s “Law of Eccentric Location of Long Pathways in Spinal Cord”	0
Adolf Kussmaul (1822–1902), and the naming of “poliomyelitis”	0
Illustrating insanity: Allan McLane Hamilton,Types of Insanity, and physiognomy in late nineteenth-century American medicine	0
On the English (1931) and Spanish (1932) translations of von Economo’s classic monograph on encephalitis lethargica	0
Correction	0
Early Australian neuroscientists and the tyranny of distance	0
John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution, and Victorian Brain ScienceSamuel H. Greenblatt. John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution, and Victorian Brain Scienc	0
The Idea of Epilepsy: A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern Era (1860–2020)Simon Shorvon. The Idea of Epilepsy: A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern E	0
António Egas Moniz: From pioneering brain imaging to controversial psychosurgery. A 150th birthday celebration	0
“All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity”: A Bio-Bibliography of Dr Thomas Willis 1621–1675	0
The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron	0
La Retina de los Vertebrados	0
Two faces of the teacher: Comparing editions of Charcot’sLeçons du mardi	0
Neuroanniversary 2024	0
The prominent role of Charcot and the French neurological tradition in Latin America	0
The trial of David Ferrier, November 1881: Context, proceedings, and aftermath	0
Historical forerunners of neuropsychiatry: The psychiatric works of Albert W. Adamkiewicz (1850–1921)	0
Charcot and hallucinations: A study in insight and blindness	0
Neuroanniversary 2025	0
Cranial surgery and the pericranium	0
An overview of headache treatments during the tenth century	0
The transnational move of interdisciplinarity: Ginseng and the beginning of neuroscience in South Korea, 1970–1990s	0
Then there were 12: The illustrated cranial nerves from Vesalius to Soemmerring	0
Ivan Pavlov’s conditioned reflexes and Ivane Beritashvili’s doctrine of image-driven behavior: Materialism, myth, and politics	0
The forgotten militant and his enduring mission: Zing-Yang Kuo and his extraordinary years in behavioral neuroembryology (1929–1939)	0
The Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin.	0
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century brain maps relating to locations and constructions of brain functions	0
A brief history of the Australasian Neuroscience Society	0
Charcot’s interest in faith healing	0
Contextualizing ovarian pain in the late 19th century—Part 1: Women with “hysteria” and “hystero-epilepsy”	0
The transition from cranial surgery to neurosurgery in East London, 1760–1960	0
Echoes of William Gowers’s concept of abiotrophy	0
From hypochondrium to hypochondria	0
The vision of Helmholtz	0
Lytico-bodigin Guam: Historical links between diet and illness during and after Spanish colonization	0
From brain cytoarchitectonics to clinical neurology: Polish Institute for Brain Research in Vilnius, 1931–1938	0
Pathology and Visual Culture: The Scientific Artworks of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and the Salpêtrière School	0
What caused Joan of Arc’s neuropsychiatric symptoms? Medical hypotheses from 1882 to 2016	0
Remarkable things: Visual evidence and excess at Charcot’s Salpêtrière	0
Rita Levi-Montalcini e il suo Maestro, Una grande avventura nelle Neuroscienze alla Scuola di Giuseppe Levi	0
Mr. Humble & Dr. Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul	0
NeurHistAlert 26	0
Venae spermaticae post aures: The early modern angiology-neurology of virility	0