1909 – Harvey Cushing was the first to electronically stimulate the human sensory cortex.

1910 – Alzheimer’s disease was named by Emil Krapelin

1912 – William Stern developed the original formula for IQ ( Intelligence Quotient )

1920 – “Studies in Neurology” was published by Henry Head and “The Little Albert Experiments” were published by John. B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner.

1936 – Work on the first Human Frontal Lobotomy was published by Egas Moniz

1938 – Human patients were treated with electroshock by Ugo Cerletti and Lucino Bini. B.F Skinner also published “The Behaviour of Organisms“. This describes operant conditioning.

1956 – The brain was examined using ultrasound by L.Leksell

1960 – Oleh Hornykiewicz proved that brain dopamine was lower in patients that suffered from Parkinson’s disease

1969 – The Society of Neuroscience was founded

1987 – Depression was treated with Fluoxetine (Prozac)

1993 – The gene for Huntington’s disease was discovered

2000 – The Nobel prize for the discovery of signal transduction in the nervous system was shared between Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel