Korbinian Brodmann Museum

 

Germany | Konstanz

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Korbinian Brodmann was born on 17 November 1868 in the small village Liggersdorf as son of the farmer Josef Brodmann. He is still worldwide well-known as a pioneer of brain science. The results of his research are known for the “Brodmann Areas”. The Korbinian-Brodmann-Museum opened in 2009 when Brodmann’s famous monograph, “Vergleichende Lokalisationslehre der Großhirnrinde in ihren Prinzipien, dargestellt auf Grund des Zellenbaues” (The principles of comparative localization in the cerebral cortex based on cytoarchitectonics), was published 100 years ago. The book is one of the major ‘classics’ of the neurological world. To this day it forms the basis for localizaion of function in the cerebral cortex, with Brodmann’s areas still widely used. Indeed, his famous maps of the cerebral cortex of humans, monkeys and other mammals must be among the most commonly reproduced figures in neurobiological publishing. (The book is still available in English language as „Localization in the Cerebral Cortex“- translated by Prof. Dr. Laurence J. Garey). Prof. Dr. Karl Zilles, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine Research Center Jülich, Germany said in 2004: “Brodmann's work has gained importance through the introduction of modern imaging techniques, going far beyond what Brodmann himself had probably expected. There are only a few scientific works that retain their importance in our fast-moving time and in scientific medicine as long as the work of Korbinian Brodmann”.

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Museum Dr. Guislain

 

Belgium | Gent

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Gent (Belgium) is the hometown of Museum Dr. Guislain, an international reference on the history of mental health. The unique exhibition plays a pioneering role in questioning and removing misunderstandings and prejudice with regard to brain disorders. The collection calls into question the border between the normal and the abnormal, points out the social and cultural aspects of mental healthcare and it sheds light on neuroscientific developments. The current museum collection started out with a small ‘key’ collection of old objects that were preserved inside the walls of the Guislain Hospital and were put on display for certain special occasions. Particularly the late 18th/ early 19th century collection of instruments of coercion used in the Ghent madhouse for men was an eye catcher. In the early 1980s, Bro. René Stockman, PhD, the museum’s current curator and the Superior General of the Brothers of Charity, was the Dr. Guislain Psychiatric Centre’s general director. He saw great value in both the building and in the old objects that were kept there. With the Museum Dr. Guislain, he wanted to respond to the great ignorance as well as the curiosity about the history of mental health care in general and psychiatry in particular.

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The Memorial Museum-Estate of Academician I.P. Pavlov

 

Russia | Riazan

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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian physiologist known for his work in classical conditioning. He devoted his life to science. In 1904, Pavlov won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine and became the first Russian Nobel laureate. He was born during the reign of Nicolas I, and died during Stalin’s regime, having contributed his life to physiology and neurological sciences. One of Pavlov’s dogs is preserved at the Memorial Museum-Estate of Academician I.P. Pavlov in Ryazan, Russia. There, you can learn about Pavlov’s childhood and adult life and scientific path. Visitors can attend various lectures and film demonstrations dedicated to Pavlov’s life and scientific discoveries. Admission prices vary from 30 to 600 rubles depending on the age and tour options. One of Pavlov’s goals was to study the role of nervous system in digestion. He applied a new method to the surgery of digestive system that allowed for conducting extended studies of the animals. An example of Pavlov’s dog is preserved and can be viewed at the K. Timiryazev State Biological Museum in Moscow.

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Ivan Pavlov Apartment Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Russia | St. Petersburg

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Pavlov’s scientific life is connected with Petersburg. He lived in this house on Vasilyevsky Island since he was eighteen years old. The construction of the building was started upon Peter the Great’s order and was given to the Russian Academy of Science in 1725. Apartment 11 on the second floor belonged to Pavlovs. Today, it is a unique memorial to Russian science. The idea of the museum belongs to Pavlov’s widow, Seraphima Basilyevna. The museum was open in 1949; their daughter Vera Ivanovna was its curator till 1964. Three of six rooms were preserved in original condition. Pavlov’s widow and daughter survived the World War II and Leningrad’s blockade. Not only were they able to save furniture, books and paintings but also the small interior details that tell us a lot of the habts and hobbies of the house owner.

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House-Museum Egas Moniz

 

Portugal | Avanca

Visiting Hours: 9am to 12noon and 1:30 to 4:30pm Tuesday through Friday 2pm to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday

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Egas Moniz is a well know Portuguese neurologist who developed lobectomy and used angiography for the first time. He shared the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Walter Rudolf Hess. Today his house in Avanca in the District of Aveiro can be visited as a museum. Arrangements must be made with emails, at least 2 weeks prior to the visit. Artifacts and documents related to the discovery of angiography can be seen in the museum.

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