Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of the History of the Neurosciences is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Phrenology’s frontal sinus problem: An insurmountable obstruction?9
Radical Treatment: Wilder Penfield’s Life in Neuroscience6
Sectorization of the hippocampal formation: Cytoarchitectonics, topography, or vulnerability to hypoxia?5
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 Society4
E. H. Sieveking and his cephalalgia epileptica4
The neurosciences at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen3
Hikikomori (引きこもり): Ancient term, modern concept3
Ghost cells: Wilder Penfield and the characterization of glia and glial pathology, 1924–19323
Charcot and Léon Daudet and Charcot: A missed love story?3
Ada Potter and her microscopical neuroanatomy atlases3
The concept of the Schwann cell by Louis Ranvier and his school: The ‘interannular segment’ as a cell unit3
The great family of cerebral ventricles: Some intruders in the portrait gallery3
Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience3
The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination2
Ernst Brücke and Sigmund Freud: Physiological roots of psychoanalysis2
Scientific plurality and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): A philosophical and historical perspective on Charcot’s texts2
Neuroscience research in the Max Planck Society and a broken relationship to the past: Some legacies of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society after 19482
Ethical questions arising from Otfrid Foerster’s use of the Sherrington method to map human dermatomes2
Neuropathological images in the great pathology atlases2
The peripheral nerve: A neglected topic in Charcot’s neurological work2
Against vivisection: Charcot and Pitres’ discovery of the human motor cortex and the birth of modern neurosurgery and of the surgical treatment of epilepsy2
George Kenneth York III2
Sesquicentenary of the knee jerk reflex: The contributions of Hughlings Jackson, Horsley, and Sherrington2
Charcot’s erroneous double-semidecussation scheme for the retinocortical visual pathways2
Duane E. Haines (1943–2024)2
Alexander disease: The story behind an eponym1
Brouillet’s Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière as an epistemic tool in Charcot’s research on hysterical amnesia1
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 history1
Heinrich Müller (1820-1864) and the entoptic discovery of the site in the retina where vision is initiated1
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 electroneurography1
The stone of madness: Charcot’s interest in a copy after Pieter Bruegel Sr. as referred to by Henry Meige1
Changing graphic representations of the brain from the late middle ages to the present1
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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 neurology1
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 Russia1
The last voyage of Jean-Martin Charcot1
A New Field in Mind: A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences1
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 information1
Book Review1
Sympathetic Understanding1
Introduction1
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 Psychiatry1
Carl Bergmann (1814–1865) and the discovery of the anatomical site in the retina where vision is initiated1
Male hysteria in theory and practice: Analyzing patient records of the Tartu Psychiatric Hospital (Estonia), 1881–18951
Eugène-Louis Doyen and his Atlas d’Anatomie Topographique (1911): Sensationalism and gruesome theater1
Lathyrism in Spain: Lessons from 68 publications following the 1936–39 Civil War1
Early depiction of anterior spinal arteries and veins in André du Laurens’s Historia anatomica humani corporis (1600)1
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