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Overview

Stanley Finger is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research integrates the fields of neuroscience and arts and humanities, with a primary focus on neurology, history, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work predominantly addresses topics related to neurology and historical studies, history of medicine, and mental health and psychiatry. Additional areas include academic and historical perspectives in psychology, historical philosophy and science, historical and scientific studies, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

Frequent co-authors include Paul Eling, Elisabetta Sirgiovanni, Eglė Sakalauskaitë-Juodeikienë, Stephan Nolte, and Werner E. Hansen.

Stanley Finger has published extensively in these venues:

  • Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
  • Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
  • History of Psychiatry

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Stanley Finger are:

  • "An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America" (2021), Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
  • "The electrified artist: Edvard Munch's demons, treatments, and sketch of an electrotherapy session (1908-1909)" (2024), Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Other related relevant publications in the same collection of recent works include those by frequent co-author Paul Eling addressing historical perspectives on Franz Joseph Gall, published in 2020 and 2021, in both the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.

Stanley Finger has also contributed to book publications. One notable book published by Cambridge University Press is "Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers" (2023).

Best Publications

  • Origins of neuroscience: A history of explorations into brain function.

    Stanley Finger

  • Origins of Neuroscience

    Stanley Finger

  • Recovery from Brain Damage

    Stanley Finger

  • Minds behind the brain : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries

    Stanley Finger

  • The Monakow concept of diaschisis: origins and perspectives.

    Stanley Finger;Peter J. Koehler;Caroline Jagella

  • Brain Damage and Recovery : Research and Clinical Perspectives

    Stanley Finger;Donald G. Stein

  • Brain damage and neuroplasticity: mechanisms of recovery or development?

    S Finger;C R Almli

  • Brain damage and behavioral recovery: serial lesion phenomena.

    Stanley Finger;Bonnie Walbran;Donald G. Stein

  • Recovery from brain damage : research and theory

    Stanley Finger

  • Behavioral and neurochemical evaluation of a transgenic mouse model of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome

    S. Finger;R.P. Heavens;D.J.S. Sirinathsinghji;M.R. Kuehn

  • Early brain damage

    C. Robert Almli;Stanley Finger

  • Cutaneous sensory spots and the "law of specific nerve energies": history and development of ideas.

    Ulf Norrsell;Stanley Finger;Clara Lajonchere

  • Lesion Momentum and Behavior

    Stanley Finger

  • Environmental Attenuation of Brain-Lesion Symptoms

    Stanley Finger

  • Brain injury and recovery : theoretical and controversial issues

    Stanley Finger

  • An Early Description of ADHD (Inattentive Subtype): Dr Alexander Crichton and ‘Mental Restlessness’ (1798)

    Erica D. Palmer;Stanley Finger

  • Gilles de la Tourette and the Discovery of Tourette Syndrome: Includes a Translation of His 1884 Article

    Clara Lajonchere;Marsha Nortz;Stanley Finger

  • Brain damage and recovery: problems and perspectives

    Donald G. Stein;Donald G. Stein;Stanley Finger;Tessa Hart

  • A happy state of mind : A history of mild elation, denial of disability, optimism, and laughing in multiple sclerosis

    Stanley Finger

  • Minds behind the brain

    Stanley Finger

  • Brain Injury and Recovery

    Stanley Finger;T. E. Levere;C. Robert Almli;Donald G. Stein

  • Brain, mind, and medicine : essays in eighteenth-century neuroscience

    Harry A. Whitaker;Christopher Upham Murray Smith;Stanley Finger

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry A. Whitaker
Harry A. Whitaker Northern Michigan University
Leonard Green
Leonard Green Washington University in St. Louis
Stephen M. Kanne
Stephen M. Kanne Weill Cornell Medicine
David A. Gallo
David A. Gallo University of Chicago
Shawn E. Christ
Shawn E. Christ University of Missouri
Claudio Luzzatti
Claudio Luzzatti University of Milano-Bicocca

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