Launching of the Human Brain Project (HBP)

Launching of The Brain Initiative

Markus Gabriel coined the term "Neucentrism" at his book "I am not a Brain"

Why People Choose Coke Over Pepsi: How Our Brains Create Our Consumer Experience, by Mlodinow

Self-Knowledge and Self-Identity, by Sidney Shoemaker

Quote by James D. Watson

Completion of the Human Genome Project

Thomas Insel appointed head of the new life sciences unit of Alphabet

Harvard Medical School landmark report

The Second Treatise of Government, by John Locke

Passions of the Soul, by René Descartes

De Anima, by Aristotle

Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke

NeuroX

Invention of fMRI

Discovery of Mirror Neurons

Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, by Alva Nöe

The Encultured Brain, by Greg Downey and Daniel H. Lende

First appearance of the term cultural neuroscience

Social Neuroscience, by John T. Cacioppo and Gary Berntson

Foundation of the Society for Social Neuroscience

Appearance of the term neuroanthropology in the Dictionary of Anthropology

Neuroanthropology vs. Cultural Neuroscience

The Pharma-Psych Nexus

Synthetization of Chlorpromazine

The Epigenetics Revolution, by Nessa Carey

The search for treatment-specific biomarkers

Neurodiversity

Mental Patients' Union

The Rise of the Neuronovel, by Marco Roth

Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert L. Stevenson

Dracula, by Bram Stoker

Thinks... by David Lodge

Galatea 2.2, by Richard Powers

Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

Matters of the Heart: History, Medicine, and Emotion, by Fay Bound Alberti

Total Recall

Blade Runner

Johnny Mnemonic

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Being Brains: Making The Cerebral Subject, by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega

Being Brains: Making The Cerebral Subject
To Begin With
Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject
Chap. 2: Disciplines of the Neuro
Chap. 2: Neuroaesthetics
Chap. 2: The Neurodisciplines of Culture
Chap. 3: Cerebralizing Distress
Chap. 4: Brains on Paper
Chap. 4: Brains on Screen
Other works, books and talks by Vidal and Ortega
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Neurocriticism, by Amir Muzur and Iva Rinčić

07/05/2013View on timeline


On the use and abuse of the prefix neuro-, see for example Muzur and Rinčić (2013)



Beyond research and the clinic, the brain and neuroscientific information form the core of a vast universe that ranges from crassly commercial enterprises to lofty metaphysical speculations. Within that universe, the undisciplined multiplication and the often comical abuse of the prefix neuro- are like the small signals that confirm the existence of a large-scale phenomenon. [...] On the use and abuse of the prefix neuro-, see for example Muzur and Rinčić (2013).


Vidal, Fernando and Ortega, Francisco. Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (Forms of Living) (...

Iva Rincic, sociologist, and Amir Muzur, doctor and specialist in Medieval History, who both teach a...
Download the complete article in English on the link below:Muzur, Amir, and Iva Rinčić. 2013. “Neurocriticism: A Contribution to the Study of the Etiology, Phe...

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01/01/1990 (Circa)31/12/1999 (Circa)The Decade of the BrainThe Decade of the Brain
02/04/2013Launching of The Brain InitiativeLaunching of The Brain Initiative