Principal investigators / Projektleiter: Sven Jarius, Brigitte Wildemann

The subject of this research project is the history of neuroscience, with special emphasis on the history of neuroimmunology.

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Gegenstand unserer Forschung ist die Geschichte der Neurowissenschaften unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Geschichte der Neuroimmunologie.

Selected publications on the history of neuroscience / Ausgewählte Publikationen zum Thema

• Jarius S, Wildemann B. The history of neuromyelitis optica. Part 2: 'Spinal amaurosis', or how it all began. J Neuroinflammation 2019 Dec 28;16(1):280. [FREE PDF]
• Jarius S, Wildemann B. Devic's index case: a critical reappraisal - AQP4-IgG-mediated neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, or rather MOG encephalomyelitis? J Neurol Sci 2019;407:116396.
• Jarius S, Wuthenow AB, Wildemann B. The first Japanese report on neuromyelitis optica rediscovered: acute bilateral blindness, tetraparesis and respiratory insufficiency in a 35-year-old man (1891). J Neurol Sci 2018 Dec 15;395:121-125.
• Jarius S, Wildemann B. Pavlov’s reflex before Pavlov: early accounts from the English, French and German classic literature. Eur Neurol 2017;77(5-6):322-326. [FREE PDF]
• Jarius S, Wildemann B. Devic’s disease before Devic: Bilateral optic neuritis and simultaneous myelitis in a young woman (1874). J Neurol Sci 2015 Nov 15;358(1-2):419-21.
• Jarius S, Wildemann B. And Pavlov still rings a bell: summarising the evidence for the use of a bell in Pavlov’s iconic experiments on classical conditioning. J Neurol 2015 Sep;262(9):2177-8. [FREE PDF]
• Jarius S, Wildemann B. 'Spinal amaurosis' (1841). On the early contribution of Edward Hocken to the concept of neuromyelitis optica. J Neurol 2014 Feb;261(2):400-4.
• Jarius S, Wildemann B. The history of neuromyelitis optica. J Neuroinflammation 2013 Jan 15;10:8. [FREE PDF]
• Jarius S, Wildemann B. Flesh in the age of reason: the modern foundations of body and soul, and a dialogue by Jeremy Collier (1695). Brain 2013 Aug;136(Pt 8):e243. [FREE PDF]
• Jarius S, Wildemann B. On the contribution of Thomas Clifford Allbutt, FRS, to the early history of neuromyelitis optica. J Neurol 2013 Jan;260(1):100-4.
• Jarius S, Wildemann B. An early British case of neuromyelitis optica (1850). BMJ 2012 Dec 22;345:e6430.
• Jarius S, Wildemann B. The case of the Marquis de Causan (1804): an early account of visual loss associated with spinal cord inflammation. J Neurol 2012 Jul;259(7):1354-7.
• Jarius S, Wildemann B. 'Noteomielite' accompanied by acute amaurosis (1844). An early case of neuromyelitis optica. J Neurol Sci 2012 Feb;313(1–2):182–4.
• Jarius S, Wildemann B. An early case of neuromyelitis optica: On a forgotten report by Jacob Lockhart Clarke, FRS. Mult Scler 2011 Nov;17(11):1384-6.