Contemporary neuroscience often presents modern theories of consciousness as products of the cognitive revolution and computational neuroscience. Yet several neurophysiologists before and during the early cybernetic period had already developed sophisticated physiological models of conscious states grounded in bodily regulation, autonomic integration, hypothalamic function and global neural...
This article revisits a little-known lecture by René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826), best known as the inventor of the stethoscope, focusing instead on his reflections on mental illness-what he termed vesanias. Delivered at the Collège de France in 1823, the lecture predates modern psychiatry and offers a rare, nuanced view of mental disorders at the crossroads of clinical medicine,...
NeuropharmacologyOctober 15, 2025Marion Hendrickx, Antoine Dampierre, Emmanuel Drouin1 citation
At the beginning of the 20th century, while psychiatric knowledge remained limited, some physicians were already exploring innovative experimental paths. This article presents an unpublished clinical case of a patient, Madame Louise Françoise R., treated with mescaline in 1930 by Henri Claude and Henri Ey at Sainte-Anne in Paris, four years before their official publication on the subject. The...