1905 – Alfred Binet

1909 – Harvey Cushing is first to electrically stimulate human sensory cortex.

1912 – IQ developed by William Stern

1920 – Watson and Rayner – Little Albert experiment about classical conditioning

1932 – Adrian and Sherrington share Nobel Prize for their work on the function of neurons

1936 – Egas Moniz publishes work on the first human frontal lobotomy

1938 – Skinner describes operant conditioning in “The Behaviour of Organisms”

1948 – The World Health Organization is founded (WHO)

1953 – Milner discusses patient HM – loss of hippocampal surgery

1969 – Society for Neuroscience formed

1981 – Roger Walcott Sperry awarded Nobel Prize for his work on the functions of the brain hemispheres

2013 – Barack Obama announces Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN)