ISHN 2008 Seeing Is Believing

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1 ISHN 2008 Seeing Is Believing International Society for the History of the Neurosciences 13 th Annual Meeting Berlin, Germany Wednesday, June 18 Sunday, June 22, 2008 Harnack House Conference venue of the Max Planck Society Ihnestrasse Berlin Wednesday, June 18 All day REGISTRATION Meino Gibson, Karin Chalcroft, Jim Chalcroft ISHN2008 Meeting Desk, Harnack House 15:00-17:00 WORKSHOP: Teaching Neuroscience History Samuel Greenblatt (Brown University) moderator 17:00-20:00 OPENING CEREMONY Introduction Greeting Addresses The History of Harnack House Georg W. Kreutzberg ISHN President Professor Heinz Riesenhuber Professor Ganten Dean of the Charité 20:00 BUFFET DINNER & INFORMAL "GET-TOGETHER" 21:00-22:00 SOCIAL PROGRAM: Film & Discussion Moderated by Gül Russell Film title to be announced END OF DAY ONE

2 Thursday, June 19 REGISTRATION All Day Meino Gibson, Karin Chalcroft, Jim Chalcroft ISHN2008 Meeting Desk, Harnack House EURO-NEUROHISTORY (President-elect Lecture) 9:00-9:30 Sherry Ginn Study, travel, and wishful thinking in 19 th century continental Europe 9:30 9:40 Pause SESSION 1. ELECTRIC FISH 9:40 10:00 Stanley Finger Electric fish therapy: history and perspectives 10:00 10:20 Frank Stahnisch Heroic self-experimentation as neurophysiological method: the case of Alexander von Humboldt s ( ) Experiments on Electric Fish 10:20 10:40 Robert Kubala Gustav Fritsch and the history of electric fish 10:40 11:00 Jean-Gaël Barbara Torpedo fish research in Fessard s school: globalization in neurophysiology ( ) POSTER SESSION Chairs: to be announced 11:00 12:00 Bernd Holdorff Leydens' progressive bulbar paralysis (1870) and Charcot's amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1869, 1874) at the historical intersection of nosographical science Dimitra Koniari and Lazaros Triahou Herbert von Karajan at 100: recounting the maestro's interest in the physiological sciences Miki Takasuna Green tea and hallucinations: examples from th century literature Zoi Theodoridou & Lazaros Triarhou Fin-du-siècle attempts at bridging neuroscience and education: Henry Herbert Donaldson and Reuben Post Halleck

3 12:00 13:00 Lunch Lazaros Triahou Alfons and Christfried (Christofredo) Jakob: two Bavarian neuropathologists in Latin America Yuri Zagvazdin, Edward Apetz and Michael Patterson Meningitis and the history of clinical neuroscience: the role of the disease in the development of American osteopathy and a tribute to the pioneer studies of Salmonellae in its pathogenesis Mohsen Naseri, Mahdi Razafsha and Karimi Behforuzi Antiepileptic Drugs and traditional Iranian medicine 13:00 14:00 Poster Session (continued) CLUB d HISTOIRE DES NEUROSCIENCES (CHN) Chair: J.-G. Barbara 14:00 14:20 Pierre Buser the concept of the unconscious mind: a brief historical overview 14:20 14:40 Francois Clarac Albert Gombault ( ): an histologist of Charcot 14:40 15:00 Claude Debru From time psychophysiology to neurophysiology 15:00 15:20 Fabrice Gzil Did Alzheimer believe that he had discovered a new disease? 15:20 15:40 Suzanne Tyc-Dumont A tribute to Hsiang-Tung Chang: dendritic arborization revisited 15:40 16:30 Pause / Break FEATURED LECTURE Chair: C.H. Lücking 16:30 17:00 Cornelius Borck (University of Lübeck) Hans Berger and his winding path to the EEG SESSION 2. NEUROSCIENCE DOWN UNDER Chair: P. Foley 17:00 17:20 Catherine Storey An Eldorado of quackery : phrenology in the colony of new South Wales 17:20 17:40 James Chalcroft and Georg Kreutzberg Neuroscience history in New Zealand: a microcosm of European thinking, reflected in the antipodes.

4 SESSION 3. NEUROSCIENCES AND ACADEMIC LIFE Chair: A. Karenberg 17:40 18:00 Anja Pech and Axel Karenberg Herman Oppenheim ( ): an outstanding neurologist, but without an academic career 18:00 18:20 Christian Baumann Hermann Munk: a nineteenth-century academic career in Prussia END OF DAY TWO Friday, June 20 PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE 9:00-9:40 Georg Kreutzberg The Munich School of Brain Research: 135 years 9:40 10:00 Pause SESSION 3. LANGUAGE 10:00 10:20 Alla Vein Kozhevnikov epilepsy: the history of the disease and its eponym 10:20 10:40 Peter Koehler and Eelco Wijdicks A history of coma as described in medical and neurological texts ( ) 10:40 11:00 David Steinberg and George York Neurology and the linguistic limits of history and science SESSION 4. MUSIC 11:00 11:20 Julia Kursell Nikolai Bernstein and the neurophysiology of virtuoso piano playing 11:20 11:40 Laura Otis Translating science: sounds, words, images and knowledge 11:40 12:00 Michel Meulders Consonances, from mathematics to physiology 12:00 13:00 Lunch

5 13:00 14:00 Pause / Break SOCIAL PROGRAM 14:00 Excursion by bus into the Heart of Berlin : Charité Hospital and the Virchow Ruine FEATURED LECTURE at the Ruine Bert Sakmann Bernard Katz and the history of synaptic transmission RECEPTION and BUFFET DINNER at the Ruine ca. 22:00 Bus leaves the Virchow Ruine to return to Harnack House END OF DAY THREE Saturday, June 21 SESSION 5. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES (Part 1) 9:00 9:20 Moshe Feinsod De motu cerebri: to observe, record, understand and apply 9:20 9:40 Henning Schmidgen Measuring time in the brain and nervous system, ca :40 10:00 Max Stadler Muscle, athletes and the heat production of nerve, ca :00 10:20 Carl Hermann Lücking Hundred years H-reflex: Memories of Paul A. Hoffmann 10:20 10:40 Pause SESSION 6. NEUROPSYCHIATRY AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 10:40 11:00 Ellen Dwyer Neurology and psychoanalysis in early twentieth century United States: the case of L. Pierce Clark

6 11:00 11:20 Lorenzo Lorusso and Bruno Lucci The Italians of the Munich Group 11:20 11:40 Marjorie Lorch the third man: aphasia research in the mid nineteenth century England 11:40 12:00 Howard Kushner Historians of addiction confront chronic brain disease 12:00 14:00 Lunch 12:00 14:00 ISHN Board of Directors Meeting (includes lunch; open to Board members and invited reports) SESSION 7. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES (Part 2) 14:00 14:20 Paul Eling On the historical and conceptual background of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test 14:20 14:40 Lorenzo Lorusso and Alessandro Porro The development and application of cinematography in neuroscience 14:40 15:00 Manuel Greber The history of human brain banking SESSION 8. ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA REVISITED 15:00 15:20 Tina Brown Encephalitis Lethargica: did it really disappear or did physicians stop seeing it as EL? 15:20 15:40 Paul Foley Encephalitis Lethargica and schizophrenia before the parting of their ways 15:40 16:00 Joel Vilensky and Sid Gilman The Matheson patient files: what can they tell us about Encephalitis Lethargica? END OF DAY FOUR Sunday, June 22 SESSION 9. LATERALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION 9:00 9:20 Henry Schutta Exceptions to the Valsalva Doctrine

7 9:20 9:40 George York and David Steinberg Broadbent s Law and cerebral localization in the nineteenth century 9:40 10:00 Wayne Lazar An assessment of the work of Fritsch and Hitzig in the United Kingdom and the United States during the early part of the 1870s 10:00 10:20 Boleslav Lichterman In search of sedes morbi: Virchow s impact on Russian neuropathology. 10:20 10:40 Pause / Break SESSION 10. SEEING AND BELIEVING 10:40 11:00 Gül Russell Ibn al-haytham: linking the science of optics and visual perception in a theory of image formation and seeing 11:00 11:20 Christopher Smith Seeing and believing: three episodes in the history of neurophysiology 11:20 11:40 Ulf Norrsell Lichtpunkte : a misjudged 19 th century tool for ophthalmological research 11:40 12:00 Nicholas Wade Seeing is deceiving: illusions and visual neuroscience 12:00 12:30 ISHN ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Chair: Georg Kreutzberg - General matters - Presentation of prizes and awards - Farewell comments from the incoming President (Sherry Ginn, host of the 2009 ISHN meeting in Charleston, South Carolina) 12:30 ADJOURNMENT END OF CONFERENCE

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