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J. Neurochem.
Complete run of bound Journals to 2001, unbound issues 2001 to date
Bulletins & Newsletters
Membership Directories
Special dedicated issues , Neurochem.Res. (incomplete)
*Books (Annex 1)
*Histories - general Neurochemical (Annex 2)
- specifically on Thudichum, "the Father of Neurochemistry" (Annex 3)
*Miscellaneous reminiscences (Annex 4)
Meetings (Programmes and Abstracts)
Pre-ISN Meetings Oxford ‘54, Aarhus ‘56, Strasbourg ‘58, Varenna ‘60, St. Wolfgang ‘62, Goteborg ‘62, Oxford ‘65
ISN Meetings 1967 - 2001
[Brian Ansell’s 9 mm film of Strasbourg 1967; Video of Riva del Garda, 1985]
Historical Symposia
*ASN Meetings (incomplete)
*ESN Meetings (incomplete)
*APSN Meetings (incomplete)
British Neurochem. Group Symposia
*Miscellaneous satellites
Brain Energy Metab. Meetings
ISN Business
Minutes of Business & Council Meetings : note - by UK law these must be held by the ISN Company Secretary, so when John Clark replaces Herman Bachelard as Co. Sec. these will be transferred from Nottingham to London.
Constitution, Guidelines
Task Force documents
Foundation ISN, Future of ISN
Liaison with Other Societies (ENA, Soc. Neurosci., SONA, IBRO, FEBS)
ISN as "ICON/umbrella" (ESN, ASN, APSN)
Correspondence re permanent Business Office
ISN Accounts & Finances (Membership subs.)
*Records of ISN Sub-Committees (incomplete)
Ad Hoc committee
CAEN
Careers brochures, 1986
Clinical Committee
Membership Committee
Nominating Committee (1977-1993)
Professional Rights
SCEC
Summer schools
Special Lectures
Young Scientists - Lectureships, Travel grants
Company Business
Charitable Status
Company affairs
Directors
Company Secretary (Accounts, Reports)
Miscellaneous Documents
*Obituaries
Women in Neuroscience
ISN Logo
*Special Issues - Neurochem.Res
Thudichum - articles & correspondence
Photographs
*People - approx. 200 portrait photos. on request)
*Meetings & Centres (Annex 5)
*Council (Annex 6)
*Annex 1: Books
Bachelard, H.S. Brain Biochemistry (2nd. ed.), Chapman& Hall, London, 1981.
[German, Spanish & Malaysian translations]
Baldwin, E. Gowland Hopkins, a memoir on the discoverer of vitamins, van den Berghs, London.
Baldwin, Dynamic Aspects of Biochemistry, (3rd. ed.) CUP, 1957.
Benzi, G., Bachelard, H.S. & Agnoli, A. (eds.). Energy transduction and Neurotransmission.
[Full papers of a joint ESN / WFN Meeting, Rome], Menarini Foundation, Milan. 1982.
Bick, K., Amaducci, L. & Pepeu, G. (eds.) The Early Story of Alzheimer's Disease, Liviana, Padova, 1987.
[Note: this volume contains a translation of Alzheimer's original 1907 paper]
Bradford, H.F. & Marsden, C.D. (eds.) Biochemistry and Neurology, Special Neurochemical Group Symposium, Acad.Press, London, 1976.
Brady, R.O. & Tower, D.B. (eds.) The Neurochemistry of Nucleotides and Amino Acids, Wiley, NY, 1960.
Brücke, F. (ed.) Biochemistry of the Central Nervous System [Proc. 4th. Internat. Congress Biochem., Vienna], Pergamon, NY, 1959.
de Belleroche, J. (ed.) Presynaptic receptors, Mechanisms and Functions, Special Neurochemical Group Symposium, Ellis Harwood, Chichester, 1982.
Denny-Brown, D. (ed.) Selected Writings of Sir Charles Sherrington, OUP, 1979.
Eccles, J.C. The Physiology of Synapses, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1964.
Folch-Pi et al. (eds.) Chemical Pathology of the Nervous System.Pergamon, 1961. [Proc.3rd. Internat. Neurochem. Symposium, Strasbourg, 1958]
Goodwin, T.W. History of the Biochemical Society. 1911-1986. Biochem. Soc. Publication. 1987.
Guifffrida-Stella, A.M., Gombos, G., Benzi, G. & Bachelard, H.S. (eds.). Basic & Clinical Aspects of Molecular Neurobiology. [Full papers from 4th. ESN Meeting, Taormina], Menarini Foundation, Milan] 1982.
Herklott, H. A Matter of Biochemistry. 50 Years of Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1997.
Hoyer, S. (ed.). The Aging Brain. Exp. Brain Res. Suppl. 5, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1982.
Iversen, L.L. & Rose, S.P.R. (eds.) Biochemistry and Mental Illness, Special Neurochemical Group Symposium, Biochem. Soc. Special Publication no. 1, 1973.
Kety, S.S. & Elkes, J. (eds.) Regional Neurochemistry [Proc.4th. Internat. Neurochem. Symposium, Varenna]], Pergamon, NY, 1961.
[According to VPW (in a letter to HMcI in 1983) it was at this meeting that the discovery of the synaptosome was announced]
Lajtha, A. (ed.). Handbook of Neurochemistry, vol. 5 : Metabolic Turnover in the Nervous System. Plenum, N.Y. 1983.
Lajtha, A. (ed.). Handbook of Neurochemistry, vol. 9 : Alterations of Metabolites in the Nervous System. Plenum, N.Y. 1985.
Lunt, G.G. & Marchbanks, R.M. (eds.), Special Neurochemical Group Symposium, Acad. Press, London, The Biochemistry of Myasthenia gravis and Muscular Dystrophy, 1978.
McIlwain, H. Chemotherapy and the Central Nervous System, Churchill, London, 1957.
McIlwain, H. Biochemistry and the Central Nervous System, Churchill, London (2nd. ed., 1959, 3 rd. ed. 1966, 4th ed. 1971*, 5th. ed. 1985*) *with Bachelard, H.S.
McIlwain, H. (ed.). Practical Neurochemistry. (2nd. ed.). Churchill-Livingstone, London, 1975.
Marks, N. & Rodnight ,R. (eds.). Research Methods in Neurochemistry, Plenum, N.Y. vol. 2, 1974.
Marks, N. & Rodnight ,R. (eds.). Research Methods in Neurochemistry, Plenum, N.Y. vol. 6, 1985.
Mitchell, P. Chemi-osmotic Coupling in Oxidative and Photosynthetic Phosphorylation. Glyn Research Laboratory monograph, 1966.
Ochs, S. Axoplasmic Transport & its Relation to other Nerve Functions. Wiley, N.Y. 1982.
Palladin, A.V. Biochemistry of the Nervous System, Acad. Sci. Ukrainian SSR, 1965.
Translated from Russian on behalf of NASA and the National Science Foundation, by M.Artman & S. Herschkopf, the Israel Program for Scientific Translations,1967.
Richter, D. (ed.) Metabolism of the Nervous System. Pergamon, 1959 [Proc. 2nd Internat. Neurochem. Symposium, Aarhus, 1956]
Richter, D. (ed.) Comparative Neurochemistry [Proc. 5th. Internat. Neurochem. Symposium, St. Wolfgang], Macmillan, NY, 1964.
Richter, D. Life in Research, Stuart Phillips, Surrey, 1989.
Roberts, E, Baxter, C. et al (eds.) . Inhibition in the Nervous System & gamma-aminobutyric acid, Pergamon, NY, 1960.
Roberts, P.J. (ed.) Biochemistry of Dementia, Special Neurochemical Group Symposium, Wiley, Chichester, 1980.
Rodnight, R., Bachelard, H.S. & Stahl, W.L. (eds.) Chemisms of the Brain. Churchill-Livingstone, London, 1981.
Siesjo, B. Brain Energy Metabolism. Wiley, 1978.
Teelken, A. & Korf, J. (eds.) Neurochemistry: Cellular, Molecular & Clinical Aspects. [Full papers from 11th. ESN Meeting], Plenum Press, 1996.
Tower,D.B. Hensing, 1719. An Account of the First Chemical Examination of the Brain and the Discovery of Phosphorus Therein. Raven, N.Y., 1983.
Tower, D.B. Brain Chemistry and the French Connection, 1791-1841, Raven, N.Y., 1994. [2 copies]
Tower, D.B., Luse, S.A. & Grundfest, H. Properties of Membranes & Disorders of the Nervous System. Springer, NY, 1962.
Tucek, S. Acetylcholine Synthesis in Neurons. Chapman & Hall 1978.
Tucek, S. (ed.) The Cholinergic Synapse. Progress in Brain Research, Elsevier, 49, 1979.
Turner, A.J. & Bachelard, H.S.(eds.). Neurochemistry - a practical approach. IRL Press, Oxford. 1st. ed. 1987, 2nd. ed. 1997.
*Waelsch,H. (ed.) Biochemistry & the Developing Nervous System Acad. Press, NY, 1955.
1st. Internat. Neurochem. Symposium, Oxford 1954 (Archive copy tattered)
Waelsch, H. (ed.) Ultrastructure and Cellular Chemistry of Neural Tissue, Hoeber & Harper, NY, 1957.
Young, J.Z. Programs of the Brain, OUP, 1978.
Annex 2 : Histories of Neurochemistry
Bachelard, H. (1988). A Brief History of Neurochemistry in Britain and of the Neurochemical Group of the British Biochemical Society. J. Neurochem. 50, 992-995.
Bachelard, H. (1993). 25 Years of the International Society for Neurochemistry. J. Neurochem. 61, S297-307.
Bachelard, H.S. (1997). A brief history of the European Society for Neurochemistry, in Neurochemistry (ed. Teelken & Korf), Plenum Press, N.Y., pp. 1-7.
Folch-Pi, J. (1980). A brief history of the Society, ISN Membership Directory 1980.
McIlwain, H. (1985). In the Beginning: to Celebrate 20 Years of the International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN). J.Neurochem. 45, 1-10.
McIlwain H. (1975). Cerebral Isolates and Neurochemical Discovery. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 3, 579-589.
McIlwain, H. (1990). Biochemistry and neurochemistry in the 1800s: their origins in comparative animal chemistry. Essays in Biochemistry 25, 197-224.
McIlwain, H. (1991). How neurochemistry regained its specifically biological components : experimental and cognitive advance, 1935-1955. Neurochem. Res. 16, 1079-1084
McIlwain, H. (1992). Contributions to Neurochemical Knowledge Considered Ecologically. Molec. & Chem. Neuropath. 16, 289-302.
Juda Quastel (1985). Pre-1941 History of Neurochemistry (unpublished typescript)
Sourkes, TL. (1992). The Origins of Neurochemistry: the Chemical Study of the Brain in France at the End of the Eighteenth Century. J. Hist. Med. & Allied Sci. 47, 322-339.
Sourkes. T.L. (1993). John Simon, Robert Lowe, and the Origin of State-Supported Biomedical Research in Nineteenth-Century England. J. Hist. Med. & Allied Sci. 48, 436-453.
Tower, D.B. (1958). Origins and Development of Neurochemistry, Neurology 8, (Suppl. 1), 3-31.
Tower, D.B. (1981). Neurochemistry in historical perspective, in Basic Neurochemistry (eds. G.J. Siegel, R.W. Albers, B.W. Agranoff & R.A. Katzmann), Little Brown & Co., Boston, 3rd. ed. , pp. 1-16.
Tower, D.B. (1987). The American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN): Antecedents, Founding and Early Years. J.Neurochem. 48, 313-326.
*Annex 3 : Related to Thudichum
Bachelard, H.S. (1987). Thudichum. Biochem. Soc. Bulletin 9, 7-8
Bachelard, H.S. (1988). Thudichum. St. Thomas's Hospital Gazette 88, 100-102.
Debuch, H. & Dawson, R.M.C. (1965). Prof. J.L.W. Thudichum. Nature 207, 814.
Drabkin, D.L. Thudichum - Chemist of the Brain, OUP, 1958.
Dupre, P. (1993). Thudichum and Dupre - brothers-in-law. J. Roy. Soc. Med. 86, 417-420
Marsh, J.B. (1981). David L. Drabkin, M.D., 1899-1980. A personal memoir. Trans. Studies Cell. Phys. Phila. 3 [5], 325-331.
McIlwain, H. (1958). Thudichum and the Medical Chemistry of the 1860s to 1880s. Proc. R. Soc. Medicine 51, 5-10.
Sourkes, T.L. (1993). How Thudichum came to study the brain. J. Hist. Neurosci. 2, 107-119.
Sourkes, T.L. (1993). Book review: Thudichum's "Chemistry of the Brain" a Century Later. J. Psychiatry & Neurosci. 18, 51-53.
Sourkes, T.L. (1995). The protagon phoenix. J. Hist. Neurosci. 4, 37-62.
[A fascinating account of the arguments between Liebreich, Gamgee, Giess and Thudichum]
Spillane, J.D. (1974). A memorable decade in the history of Neurology 1974-84. B.M.J. 4, 757-759. Brief accounts on Caton (pioneer of EEC) and Thudichum (attacks by Gamgee, post-mortem recognition only).
Anon (1933). J.L.W. Thudichum; Historical Notation V. St.Thomas's Hospital Gazette, 34, 78-79.
List of Thudichum's papers on Otolaryngology
Copy of Thudichum's application for election to the Royal Society, 1880 (unsuccessful)
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Annex 4 : Miscellaneous reminiscences and observations
Bernie Agranoff (1992). ISN's Gastronomic Connection (unpublished typescript).
Alan Boulton (1992). Reflections on 1981-1987 (unpublished typescript).
Sourkes, T.L. (2000). How dopamine was recognised as a neurotransmitter : a personal view. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 6, 63-67.
Victor Whittaker (1985). Undated letter to Brian Ansell (re Folch-Pi's history)
Victor Whittaker (1992). Recollections of ISN (unpublished typescript).
Whittaker, V.P. (1998). Arachon and cholinergic transmission. J. Physiol. (Paris) 92, 53-57
*Annex 5 : Photos - Meetings & Centres
Pre-ISN Neurochemical Symposia
1954, Oxford (Krebs lecturing)
1956, Aarhus
1958, Strasbourg
1960, Varenna
1962, St. Wolfgang
1965, Oxford (dinner, platform, Krebs)
Biennial ISN Meetings
1975, Barcelona (platform)
1985, Riva del Garda (snaps only)
Related Meetings & Satellites
1959, Intern. Meeting Neurobiologists, Amsterdam?
1964, IBRO, New Delhi
1965, Brain and Nerve Proteins (?)
1965, Japan/USA Conference
1968, Protein Metabolism, Wards Island
1970, Blood Brain Barrier, Oxford
1973, Gordon Conference on Medical Chemistry, New Hampshire
1975, Gangliosides, Cortona
1975, Transport in the NS, Padua
1977, Protein Synthesis, Amsterdam
1979, Clinical Neurology, Istanbul
1979, Blood Retina Barriers, Espinho (Portugal)
1980, Frontiers in Neurochemistry, Venezuela
1982, PNS Diseases, Padua
1985, PET & NMR, Padua
Centres
Ward's Island Center for Neurochemistry, 1967
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*Annex 6 : Council photos
967, Strasbourg
1973, Tokyo
1993, Montpellier
1996, Philadelphia
1999, Berlin (incl. Alice Pucknat's presentation)
2001, Buenos Aires