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Neuroscienze fonte
| 1600 | |
| 1649 | Rene Descartes describes the pineal as the control center of the body and mind |
| 1700 | |
| 1717 | Antony von Leeuwenhoek describes a nerve fiber in cross section |
| 1791 | Luigi Galvani publishes his work on electrical stimulation of frog nerves |
| 1800 | |
| 1836 | Marc Dax writes a paper on the left hemisphere damage effects on speech Gabriel Gustav Valentin discovers the neuron nucleus and nucleolus |
| 1837 | Jan Purkinje describes cerebellar cells, large nerve cells with many branching extensions found in the cerebral cortex |
| 1838 | Robert Remak suggests that nerve cell and nerve fiber are joined |
| 1839 | Theodor Schwann proposes the cell theory, identifying cells as the fundamental particles of animals and plants |
| 1844 | Robert Remak provides the first illustration of the 6 layered cortex |
| 1850 | Augustus Waller describes degenerating nerve fibers |
| 1855 | Bartolomeo Panizza shows the occipital lobe is essential for vision |
| 1865 | Camillo Golgi can be considered among the first who sought a link between neuroscience and psychiatry. |
| 1870 | Eduard Hitzig and Gustav Fritsch discover cortical motor area of dog using electrical stimulation |
| 1875 | Richard Caton is the first to record electrical activity of the brain |
| 1889 | Wilhelm His coins the term
"dendrite" Otto Friedrich Carl Dieters differentiates dendrites and axons |
| 1891 | Wilhelm von Waldeyer coins the term "neuron" |
| 1896 | Rudolph Albert von Kolliker coins the term "axon". |
| 1900 | |
| 1902 | Harvey Williams Cushing, the leading neurosurgeon of the 20th century, was a pioneer in anesthesiology and brain surgery, and the first person to electrically stimulate the human sensory cortex |
| 1906 | Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Camillo Golgi share the Nobel Prize for their work on the structure and function of nerve cells |
| 1911 | Allvar Gullstrand wins the Nobel Prize for his work on the optics of the eye |
| 1914 | Robert Barany wins the Nobel Prize for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus |
| 1919 | Cecile Vogt describes over 200 cortical areas |
| 1924 | Hans Bergerdemonstrates the first human electroencephalogram (EEG) |
| 1932 | Lord
Edgar Adrian and Sir
Charles Sherrington win the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their
research on neuron function Jan Friedrich Tonnies develops the multichannel ink writing EEG |
| 1936 | Sir Henry Hallett Dale and Otto Loewi share the Nobel Prize for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission impulses |
| 1944 | Joseph Erlanger andHerbert Spencer Gasser win the Nobel Prize for their their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres |
| 1949 | Walter Rudolph Hess wins the Nobel Prize for his work on the interbrain, or diencephalon, which includes the hypothalamus, subthalamus and parts of the thalamus |
| 1953 | Nathaniel Kleitman and Eugene Aserinsky describe rapid eye movement (REM) sleep |
| 1961 | Georg von Bekesy, Nobel laureate in Medicine for his for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea |
| 1963 | Sir John Carew Eccles, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley share the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the chemical means by which impulses are communicated or repressed by nerve cells. |
| 1967 | Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald share the Nobel prize in Physiology and Medicine for discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye |
| 1970 | Julius Axelrod, Ulf von Euler and Sir Bernard Katz share the Nobel prize for their discoveries concerning the storage, release and inactivation of catecholamine neurotransmitters and the effect of psychoactive drugs on this process |
| 1977 | Roger C.L. Guillemin and Andrew Schally share the Nobel prize for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain |
| 1981 | Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel were co-recipients of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual region of the brain |
| 1981 | Roger Sperry wins the Nobel Prize for his work in functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres of the brain |
| 1990 | Declared the "Decade of the Brain" by former President George Bush |
| 1998 | NEUROLAB |
| 2000 |