301405 VO History of Neuroscience through the Nobel Prizes (2024S)

Neuroscience is still a rapidly growing field and the ever increasing knowledge forces students to learn more and more factual details. Conversely, timely restrictions limit their ability to learn about the history of neuroscience and the origins of ideas that are at the center of today´s knowledge. These historical findings, however, are also excellent learnings paradigms to study scientific praxis, which includes carefully studying processes of interest, developing theories, planning experiments or testing and verifying hypotheses.
To offer students an opportunity to engage with the exciting history of neuroscience and to learn from its highlights, we offer a lecture series devoted to the history of neuroscience through the Nobel Prizes. For that purpose we planned a series of sixteen lectures (45 minutes) addressing different Nobel Prizes, ranging from first descriptions of brain structures in 1906 to the elucidation of the circadian rhythm in 2017.
A multidisciplinary team of lecturers from different areas of neuroscience, primarily belonging to the Medical University of Vienna but with support from the University of Vienna and the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, have agreed to contribute a lecture.