A history of modern neuroscience through seminal papers
Work in progress... Suggestions welcome at: ruben[dot]saro[at]rutgers[dot]edu
Gustav Fritsch and Eduard Hitzig (1870)
Arch Anat Physiol Wissen, 37, pp. 300-32.
Über die elektrische Erregbarkeit des Grosshirns
(Electric excitability of the cerebrum)
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Thomas R. Elliot (1905)
The Journal of Physiology, 32, issue 5-6, pp. 401-467
The action of adrenalin
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Edgar D. Adrian and Yngve Zotterman (1926)
The Journal of Physiology, 61, issue 2, pp. 151-171
The impulses produced by sensory nerve-endings.
Part 2. The response of a Single End-Organ
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Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts (1943)
The bulletin of mathematical biophysics, 5(4), 115-133.
A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity.