Wikipedia:WikiProject Neuroscience/History of Neuroscience

About - What is this page about ?

This is where we meet to organize a review of the history of neuroscience and consequent Wikipedia editing. If you are interested in joining this initiative based on the SfN's call to members, add you name to the list below and tell us what you would be interested to do.

Members - Add yourself to this list if you are looking to be part of this or need guidance for your contributions

Jean-Francois Gariepy - I'm interested in advising anyone who has questions concerning the History of Neuroscience initiative (based in part on SfN's call to members), and to coordinate the editing efforts by managing this page and simply contributing to any of the task that we will identify.

Scientist-based encyclopedia editing Wikipedia editing based on biographies of scientists

Here is a list of biographies already identified that need to be written from scratch (feel free to add) :

Georg Hermann Von Meyer

Francis Warner (Physical expression: Its modes and principles)

Stubs or articles that need improvements :

Isidor Rosenthal

James Sully

Jules Bernard Luys

Théodule-Armand Ribot

Subject-based encyclopedia editing Wikipedia editing based on scientific subjects

Here is a list of subjects already identified that need to be written from scratch (feel free to add) :

Stubs or articles that need improvements :

Biomechanics - I think we have some important information to add to the historical part

Output of the project

Pages we have edited:

Pages we have created from scratch:

The biography of Paul Sauriou. We also did it in French.

The biography of Henri-Étienne Beaunis, started from a small 3 line stub. We also did it in French.

Tasks on pre-identified ressources

1. Regroup all the documents we are going to be working with in this table. Indicate the work that was done for each document. If you know any book on neuroscience/brain/physiology that has an historical value (any book before 1950 is potentially interesting), add it and contribute to the effort!

We will divide the work in different themes so that people interested in contributing to one particular field of the history of neuroscience can pick their favorite theme and start working.

Motor patterns, rhythms and biomechanics

General or not classified

Localization of functions and physiognomy

Cognitive Neuroscience

Anatomy of the brain

Diseases and Aging

Developmental Neuroscience

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Neurolinguistics

Other subjects might also be included, but we have no books in these sections yet :

Behavioral Neuroscience Neural Engineering Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience

Useful ressources
We will need to consult these ressources and see if they have any information useful for our Wikipedia contributions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History_of_neuroscience

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/hist.html - that's a great timeline -

http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=HistoryofNeuroscience_main

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/courses/1010/mangels/neuro/history/history.html

http://www.neuroscience.uwa.edu.au/welcome/neuroscience_images

http://www.bri.ucla.edu/nha/ishn/

http://www.neurevolution.net/2007/04/29/historys-top-insights-into-brain-computation/

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/history-of-neuroscience/

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/audio/neuroscience/index_2

Brain Vision Memory : Tales in the history of Neuroscience

http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/history_of_neuroscience/

http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/about/history/

http://fc.units.it/ppb/NeuroBiol/Neuroscienze%20per%20tutti/hist.html

http://www.gach.com/Gach/l1664-02.htm

https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-0-387-22463-3_1

http://www.amazon.fr/History-Neuroscience-Autobiography-Larry-Squire/dp/0126603014

http://www.princeton.edu/~cggross/Hist_Neurosci_Ency_neurosci.pdf

http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Category:History_of_neuroscience

http://www.hallym.ac.kr/~neuro/kns/tutor/hist.html

http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/chn/histneur.htm

http://www.bri.ucla.edu/nha/

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/nobel.html

http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9780470015902/els/article/a0003076/current/abstract

http://webs.wofford.edu/pittmandw/psy330/pdfs/PSY330-1-2A.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7321298_A_short_history_of_neurosciences_in_Austria

http://neuron.duke.edu/userman/2/pioneer.html

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/279/22/1837-a

http://www.baillement.com/texte-histoire%20Salpetriere.pdf

http://web2.bium.univ-paris5.fr/livanc/?intro=neurosciences&statut=charge

http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=HistoryofNeuroscience_classicpapers

http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=HistoryofNeuroscience_main

http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=HistoryofNeuroscience_autobiographies - This is a list of books edited by Larry Squire which consists of autobiographies. This is limited to early history of neuroscience since most authors are still alive but it can be interesting.

Books
We might need to buy some / all of these books :

http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Neuroscience-History-Explorations-Function/dp/0195146948

http://www.amazon.com/Minds-behind-Brain-Pioneers-Discoveries/dp/0195181824/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242681753&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.com/Philosophical-Foundations-Neuroscience-M-Bennett/dp/140510838X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242681753&sr=1-5

http://www.amazon.com/Discoveries-Human-Brain-Neuroscience-Prehistory/dp/0896034356/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242681753&sr=1-9

http://www.amazon.com/Hole-Head-Tales-History-Neuroscience/dp/026201338X/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242681885&sr=1-15

http://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Loom-Chapters-History-Neuroscience/dp/0195086287/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242681885&sr=1-16

http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Neuron-Doctrine-History-Neuroscience/dp/0195064917/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242681885&sr=1-20

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Brain-Adaptation-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0195063899/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242681885&sr=1-21

http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Mind-Medicine-Eighteenth-Century-Neuroscience/dp/0387709665/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242681885&sr=1-22 - This one looks nice

http://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Deviation-History-Neuroscience-Ismond/dp/0192629247/ref=sr_1_29?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242681931&sr=1-29

http://www.amazon.com/Neurosciences-Paths-Discovery-Fred-Samson/dp/0817635033/ref=sr_1_30?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242681931&sr=1-30

http://www.amazon.com/History-Senses-Antiquity-Cyberspace/dp/074562958X/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242681931&sr=1-31

http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Neuroscience-History-Explorations-Function/dp/B000OKC7DY/ref=sr_1_36?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242681931&sr=1-36