Tapahtumakalenteri
Dissertation: Krista Kauppi
Opponent: docent Sakari Kainulainen, Diakonia ammattikorkeakoulu
Dissertation: Jonna Clancy
Opponent: Professor Kristian Hveem, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Dissertation: Emilie Rugemalira
Opponent: Professor Marjo Renko, University of Eastern Finland
Dissertation: Matias Autio
Opponent: Professor Jessica Okosun, Queen Mary University of London
History of neuroscience seminar by Professor Zoltan Molnar
Professor Zoltan
Molnar
It is essential for scientists to appreciate their field's history. Each
generation tends to claim some kind of exceptionalism, exaggerating the extant
progress and ignoring the fact that numerous foundational concepts, ideas, and
approaches were developed by previous generations. As the saying goes, we are
all "standing on the shoulders of giants," often without realizing
it. Scientific progress is driven by
curiosity, uncertainty, and humility – not by hype and by illusions of
all-explaining theories. The history of science puts our current knowledge into
perspective – perhaps we know nowhere near as much as we pretend to?
In his talk, Professor Zoltán Molnár will outline
the initiatives he and his colleagues at the University of Oxford have
undertaken to preserve crucial material in the history of neuroscience for
future generations and to foster interest in this rich legacy. Safeguarding our
scientific and cultural heritage is crucial for advancing teaching and research
in the years to come. He will illustrate these points through the life of
Thomas Willis (1621-1675) and Charles Sherrington (1857-1952).
De
Carlos JA, Molnár Z. (2019) Cajal's Interactions with Sherrington and the
Croonian Lecture. Anat Rec (Hoboken). 303(5):1181-1188.
Lorusso L, Piccolino M, Motta S, Gasparello A, Barbara
JG, Bossi-Régnier L, Shepherd GM, Swanson L, Magistretti P, Everitt
B, Molnár Z, Brown RE. Neuroscience
without borders: Preserving the history of neuroscience. Eur J Neurosci. 2018 Sep;48(5):2099-2109.
Molnár Z (2004)
Thomas Willis (1621-1675), the founder of clinical neuroscience. Nature
Reviews Neuroscience 5(4):329-35. https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn1369
Molnár Z and Brown RE (2010) Insights
into the life and work of Sir Charles Sherrington. Timeline. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
11(6):429-36. Box of Sherrington - https://learntech.medsci.ox.ac.uk/wordpress-history/slides/
Molnár Z and Brown RE (2010) Insights
into the life and work of Sir Charles Sherrington. Timeline. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
11(6):429-36.
Molnár Zoltán (2021) On the 400th anniversary of the
birth of Thomas Willis. Brain, Volume 144, Issue 4, April 2021,
Pages 1033-1037, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab016
Quatercentenary of Thomas Willis’s birth - aPrepared
by Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, St John’s College, Oxford
Neuroscience, and The Anatomical Society to celebrate the 400th anniversary of
the birthday of the greatest neuroanatomist of all time, Thomas Willis, on 27
January 2021.https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/thomas-willis
Richard E Brown, Zoltán Molnár, Ludmila Filaretova,
Mikhail Ostrovsky, Marco Piccolino, Lorenzo Lorusso (2017) The
100th Anniversary of the Russian Pavlov Physiological Society. Physiology (Bethesda, Md.)
32: 6. 402-407.
The circle of Willis Videos
from The Royal Sociey's online history of science conference 'Celebrating the
quatercentenary of the birth of Thomas Willis' - https://royalsociety.org/blog/2022/01/circle-of-willis
Thomas Willis
(1621-1675): The Founder of Neurology, St John's College online exhibition
- https://sway.office.com/sDxoxop8O0u4gRD3
History of Medicine Oxford Website: https://history.medsci.ox.ac.uk/