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.

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