Neuroscience History Affinity Group
Mission and Goals:
The Neuroscience History Archives (NHA) promotes the advancement and diffusion of knowledge about the history of neuroscience. Through the identification, collection, and preservation of primary source material of twentieth century American neuroscience, the NHA seeks to create a documentary heritage for future generations that will represent the ideas, actions, and accomplishments of the discipline's antecedent practitioners.
Activities:
The NHA identifies and preserves the papers of living neuroscientists and records of their professional organizations; assists neuroscientists in finding appropriate repositories for their papers; promotes access to this documentary evidence through the preparation of finding aids and other guides; facilitates scholarly use of the collections; and carries out research and education in the history of neuroscience.
History
As one of the first archives to focus solely on a biomedical discipline, the Neuroscience History Archives was established in 1980 at the UCLA Brain Research Institute in response to the scholarly need for documentation of American neuroscience in the twentieth century. With modest support from the National Library of Medicine and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, reference resources were complemented by primary materials such as oral histories, personal papers, and organizational records. The work continues, with income from the Frances O'Malley Trust, under the oversight of and in collaboration with the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, the Brain Research Institute, and the Division of Medical History of the Department of Neurobiology in the UCLA School of Medicine.
Affinity Group Participants:
Joel Braslow, MD, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and History; Center for Social Medicine
Russell A. Johnson, MA, MLS
Archivist, History and Special Collections Division, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
Carmine D. Clemente, MD
Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology
Judy Consales, MLS
Director, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
Anne Gilliland-Swetland, PhD
Professor, Information Science
Robert Lemelson, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology; Founder & President, Foundation for Psycho-cultural Research
Ynez V. O'Neill, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Medical History
Kenneth B. Wells, MD, MPH
Professor, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
Peter C. Whybrow, MD
Professor and Chair, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences; Director, Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior
Eran Zaidel, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
How to Join
Please email the Director of the Affinity Group for more information
Joel Braslow, MD, PhD.
jbraslow@ucla.edu