The Physical Child – Brain Development TDT
1902 – Julius Bernstein proposes membrane theory for cells. 1904 – Thomas Elliott suggests that autonomic nerves may release chemical transmitters. 1905 – John Newport Langley coins the phrase “parasympathetic nervous system”. 1909 – Harvey Cushing is first to electrically stimulate human sensory cortex. 1913 – Walter Samuel Hunter devises delayed-response test. 1919 – Gordon Morgan Holmes localizes vision to a specific area. 1920 – Stephen Walter Ranson demonstrates connections between the hypothalamus and pituitary.
1920 – John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner publish experiments about classical conditioning of fear (Little Albert experiments). 1924 – Charles Scott Sherrington discovers the stretch reflex. 1928 – Walter Rudolph Hess reports “affective responses” to hypothalamic stimulation. 1927 – J. Wagner-Jauregg – Nobel Prize-Malaria to treat dementia paralyses. 1929 – Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Spencer Gasser publish work on the correlation of nerve fiber size and function. 1936 – Walter Freeman performs first lobotomy in the United States. 1938 – Ugo Cerletti and Lucino Bini treat human patients with electroshock. 1949 – John Cade discovers that lithium is an effective treatment for bipolar depression. 1953 – Brenda Milner discusses patient HM who suffers from memory loss of hippocampal surgery. 1957 – W. Penfield and T. Rasmussen devise motor and sensory homunculus.
1957 – The American Medical Association recognizes alcoholism as a disease. 1987 – Fluoxetine (Prozac) introduced as treatment for depression. 1993 – The gene responsible for Huntington’s disease is identified.
