November 2018 - NeuroCalendar

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1 2 3 Eye Injury Prevention Month / Eliot Stellar, one of the Jokichi Takamine Fireworks Safety Month founders in the field of isolated behavioral neuroscience, adrenaline was born in 1919. (epinephrine) in 1901.

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Randy Schekman, The Interpretation of In 1994, Ronald Neurologist Kurt Nobel Prize winner The first genetic test for who won the Dreams by Sigmund Reagan announced Goldstein, developer Eric Kandel was Huntington's disease was Nobel prize for his Freud was published he had Alzheimer's of tests to assess brain born in 1929 and announced in 1983. work on in 1899. disease. injury, was born in Nobel Prize winner In 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen regulating vesicle 1878. Konrad Lorenz was discovered X-rays. traffic, was born born in 1903. in 1946. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Anatomist Marie In 1935, Egas Moniz The US FDA approved the Maximilian von Neurologist Francois Xavier performed the first sedative Valium, a Frey was born in Joseph Babinski, Bichat was born in modern surgery on the benzodiazepine, in 1964. 1852. He who studied 1771. His work is the frontal lobes of the studied the reflexes, was born basis of modern brain to treat mental sense of touch. in 1857. histology. disorders.

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 John Langdon Down Ethologist and Nobel In 1846, Oliver In 1950, the National Charles Darwin's was born in 1828; he Prize winner Karl von Wendell Holmes Institute for Neurological The Origin of the described the Frisch was born in used the word Diseases and Blindness Species by Means syndrome that bears 1886. "anesthesia" for the was established. of Natural his name. first time, in a letter Selection was to surgeon William published in 1859. Morton.

25 26 27 28 29 30 In 1895, Alfred Nobel Nobel winner Charles Jean-Martin Charcot, a In 1885, Pierre wrote his will to fund Sherrington was born pioneer of modern Janet reported prizes to those who in 1857. His work forms neurology, was born in his first studies had "the greatest the basis of modern 1825. on hypnosis. benefit on mankind." neuroscience.