Neurochemistry, the biochemistry of the nervous system, became a recognized research discipline in the 1950s, but its origins can be traced to antiquity.
Keywords: neurotransmission; brain lipids; brain metabolism; neuroplasticity; dementia
History of Neurochemistry
Bernard W Agranoff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Published online: July 2003
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003465
| Further Reading | |
| book Drabkin DL (1958) Thudichum: Chemist of the Brain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. | |
| book Finger S (2000) "Otto Loewi and Henry Dale: the discovery of neurotransmitters". In: Minds behind the Brain, pp. 259–279. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| McIlwain H (1988) Neurochemistry and related terms: their introduction and acceptance. Neurochemistry International 12: 431–438. | |
| McIlwain H (1990) Biochemistry and neurochemistry in the 1800s: their origins in comparative animal chemistry. Essays in Biochemistry 25: 197–224. | |
| proceedings Prusiner SB (1998) Prions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 95: 13363–13383. | |
| book Siegel GJ, Agranoff BW, Albers RW, Fisher SK and Uhler MD (eds) (1999) Basic Neurochemistry, 6th edn. Philadelphia/New York: Lippincott-Raven. | |
| Sourkes TL (1992) The origins of neurochemistry: The chemical study of the brain in France at the end of the eighteenth century. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 47: 322–339. | |
| Tower DB (1958) Origins and development of neurochemistry. Neurology 8 (supplement 1): 3–31. | |
