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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Duane E. Haines (1943–2024)	7
Introduction	6
Charcot and Léon Daudet: A missed love story?	5
Brouillet’s Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière as an epistemic tool in Charcot’s research on hysterical amnesia	4
Édouard Claparède (1873–1940), neurologist, psychologist, educator, and forerunner of Piagetian concepts	4
Evaluating evidence for the cortical localization for language: Systematic reviews in the 1860s and 1870s	3
Edvard Munch’s crisis in 1908 and French medicine: His doctors, treatments, and sources of information	3
Charcot’s international visitors and pupils from Europe, the United States, and Russia	3
Walter Eichler and his role in the development of electroneurography	3
Neuroanniversary 2023	2
Charcot’s contribution to the problem of language in mental medicine	2
An overview of headache treatments during the tenth century	2
Women and the Neurological Society, 1897–1907	2
Pierre Marie, 1916–1917: Functional radiographic imaging of vision and aphasia	2
Pathology and Visual Culture: The Scientific Artworks of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and the Salpêtrière School	2
Neuroanniversary 2026	2
From brain cytoarchitectonics to clinical neurology: Polish Institute for Brain Research in Vilnius, 1931–1938	2
Leonard Bell Cox (1894-1976), Edward Graeme Robertson (1903-1975), and the inauguration of the Australian Association of Neurologists (est. 1950)	2
Herbis, non verbis, fiunt medicamenta vitae : The Italian botanist Arturo Nannizzi (1887–1961) and his contribution to the treatment of parkinsonism following encephalitis lethargic	2
From testicles to brain: Understanding Dante’s dream through medieval medicine	2
The forgotten militant and his enduring mission: Zing-Yang Kuo and his extraordinary years in behavioral neuroembryology (1929–1939)	2
António Egas Moniz: From pioneering brain imaging to controversial psychosurgery. A 150th birthday celebration	2
Ivan Pavlov’s conditioned reflexes and Ivane Beritashvili’s doctrine of image-driven behavior: Materialism, myth, and politics	2
Charcot as a collector and critic of the arts: Relationship of the ‘founder of neurology’ with various aspects of art	2
The Last Voyage of Jean-Martin Charcot	1

Ghost cells: Wilder Penfield and the characterization of glia and glial pathology, 1924–1932	1
The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination	1
How did Johann Christian Reil feel the insular cortex? Gemeingefühl as a seat of mind	1
Charcot and recent French cinema	1
W. J. Adie and his “pyknolepsy,” a century ago	1
Scientific plurality and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): A philosophical and historical perspective on Charcot’s texts	1
The hierarchical principle of nervous organization, mental development, psychopathology, and behavior	1
Alexander disease: The story behind an eponym	1
The trial of David Ferrier, November 1881: Context, proceedings, and aftermath	1
The Ferrier–Schäfer dispute on localisation of the auditory center: A reappraisal in the light of new documents	1
Antônio Austregésilo Rodrigues de Lima: Founding father of neurology in Brazil	1
The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron	1
Eponymous neurologic signs of tabes dorsalis: A historical review (1846–1905)	1
NeurHistAlert 28	1
The historical and philosophical roots of emergentism in the neurosciences	1
Cranial surgery and the pericranium	1
Henry Hun and his family: Three foundational stories in the history of nineteenth-century American neurology, part III. Henry Hun (1854–1924), a nineteenth-century academic neurologist’s collision wit	1
Desert hallucination, or “ragle”: A first description by Stanislas d’Escayrac de Lauture (1826–1868)	1
David Ferrier’s “complex whole”: Early traces of a “brain network” concept	1
The Good Cartesian: Louis de La Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical Paradigm	1
The ‘worm’ in our brain. An anatomical, historical, and philological study on the vermis cerebelli	1
Kenneth Bancroft Clark and the moral arc of psychological science: Reflections 20 years after his passing	1
The evolution of plasticity in the neuroscientific literature during the second half of the twentieth century to the present	1
The Science of Walking: Investigations into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century	0
Charcot and the psychology of hysteria, with special reference to a never published final case history	0
Investigation of “elite brains”: A case of Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935)	0
Royle’s sympathectomy for spastic paralysis: Sorry saga or scientific awakening?	0
The stone of madness: Charcot’s interest in a copy after Pieter Bruegel Sr. as referred to by Henry Meige	0
The electrified artist: Edvard Munch’s demons, treatments, and sketch of an electrotherapy session (1908–1909)	0
The peripheral nerve: A neglected topic in Charcot’s neurological work	0
What caused Joan of Arc’s neuropsychiatric symptoms? Medical hypotheses from 1882 to 2016	0
Venae spermaticae post aures: The early modern angiology-neurology of virility	0
From axon to mind: Letters of a comparative neuroanatomist and a neurophysiologist	0
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)	0
Edward Trautner (1890–1978), a pioneer of psychopharmacology	0
Lathyrism in Spain: Lessons from 68 publications following the 1936–39 Civil War	0
Illustrations of the cerebrovascular system in Florentius Schuyl’s Latin editions (1662, 1664) of René Descartes’ Treatise on Man	0
The Cajal Legacy: The papers of his granddaughter, Maria Angeles Ramón y Cajal Junquera	0
The pineal gland as the seat of the soul (René Descartes): History of reception, enlightenment, and consequences of a famous error	0
Correction	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
Jean-Martin Charcot, member of thesis juries at the Paris Medical School (1862–1893)	0
David Ferrier’s second monkey (‘monkey F’): The inaugural experimental studies of the auditory cortex	0
Charcot’s interest in faith healing	0
Hikikomori (引きこもり): Ancient term, modern concept	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
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-	0
Early depiction of anterior spinal arteries and veins in André du Laurens’s Historia anatomica humani corporis (1600)	0
Consciousness, determinism, and free will in nineteenth-century Portuguese medical thought: Resonances with contemporary neuroscience	0
Male hysteria in theory and practice: Analyzing patient records of the Tartu Psychiatric Hospital (Estonia), 1881–1895	0

On the history of neuroscience research in the Max Planck Society, 1948–2002—German, European, and transatlantic perspectives: Introduction	0
Remarkable things: Visual evidence and excess at Charcot’s Salpêtrière	0
Wagner of the neurosciences? Charcot’s theater and his circle’s influence on the performing arts	0
NeurHistAlert 27	0
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-	0
Goldscheider’s scheme, Oppenheim’s canonization, and the methodological status of the patient’s voice in German-speaking medical literature	0
The transition from cranial surgery to neurosurgery in East London, 1760–1960	0
Gemelli’s legacy in the knowledge of spatial orientation in flight	0
John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution, and Victorian Brain ScienceSamuel H. Greenblatt. John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution, and Victorian Brain Scienc	0
Charcot and hallucinations: A study in insight and blindness	0
Neuroanniversary 2025	0
Neurological practice among Aztecs-Mexicas: Traditional medicine and religious practices	0
Neuroanniversary 2024	0
In memoriam Robert Barry Daroff, M.D. (1936–2025)	0
Early Australian neuroscientists and the tyranny of distance	0
Haloperidol’s introduction in the United States: A tale of a failed trial and its consequences	0
Suppression of epileptic seizures through sensory stimulation: A historical overview and assessment	0
Charcot’s erroneous double-semidecussation scheme for the retinocortical visual pathways	0
Illustrating insanity: Allan McLane Hamilton,Types of Insanity, and physiognomy in late nineteenth-century American medicine	0
Italian pellagra and pellagrous insanity	0
Sesquicentenary of the knee jerk reflex: The contributions of Hughlings Jackson, Horsley, and Sherrington	0
Carl Bergmann (1814–1865) and the discovery of the anatomical site in the retina where vision is initiated	0
‘A divine right to photograph’: E. Graeme Robertson’s (1903–1975) historical motion pictures of National Hospital staff in 1933	0
The advent of epilepsy directed neurosurgery: The early pioneers and who was first	0
From hypochondrium to hypochondria	0
The concept of the Schwann cell by Louis Ranvier and his school: The ‘interannular segment’ as a cell unit	0
NeurHistAlert 26	0
Phineas Gage, in his own time: A medical case reconstructed from newly unearthed nineteenth-century archives	0
Against vivisection: Charcot and Pitres’ discovery of the human motor cortex and the birth of modern neurosurgery and of the surgical treatment of epilepsy	0
Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience	0
Developing the theory of the extended amygdala with the use of the cupric-silver technique	0
Malcolm Bruce Macmillan (1929–2024)	0
La Retina de los Vertebrados	0
A New Field in Mind: A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences	0
A quantitative and methodological analysis of neurocranial terminology in Hristo Stambolski’s Miftah-ı Teşrih (1874)	0
The prominent role of Charcot and the French neurological tradition in Latin America	0
Serendipity in antiseizure medication discovery: Unveiling accidental breakthroughs in epilepsy treatments	0
Kinnosuke Miura and Jean-Martin Charcot: A master–disciple legacy in modern Japanese neurology	0
From shock to the diencephalon: ECT inventor Ugo Cerletti’s theory of consciousness	0
Camillo Golgi and the pathology of Huntington’s disease: An unresolved controversy	0
Anamnesis revisited: From Platonic reminiscence to medical history taking	0
Adolf Kussmaul (1822–1902), and the naming of “poliomyelitis”	0
Neuroscience research in the Max Planck Society and a broken relationship to the past: Some legacies of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society after 1948	0
The collaboration of Francis Forster and Wilder Penfield in the management of a girl with ‘reflex epilepsy’	0